HOW TO TRAIN A DOG.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 79, 30 September 1893, Page 6 (Supplement)

HOW TO TRAIN A DOG.

Bints About Jumping, Waltzing, Turning Somersaults anil Olher Tricks. Many times you will be obliged to help your pet. For instauce, if Tom is told to walk on his hind feet and doesn't seem to know the way to begin call him a good fellow and then gently take his front feet up, lead him around, talking encouragingly to him all the time. Let one foot go for a time, and when he appears to be confident lefc him walk alone. Talk all the time, even though you only repeat his name admiringly. This feat accompanied by music, sung, whistled or played, very rapidly becomes a waltz, and to make it doubly enjoyable Tom's master can join in the dance. Walking on the front feet only requires a trifle more patience, and these tricks can be done alternately and at stretches of five or ten minutes. In teaching somersaults you will have to put Tom through the operation perhaps twenty times a day. and even after he has mastered the trick a rolling movement of your hands will be a necessary guide. If Tom's master will just get down on his own chubby little hands and feet and go over himself he will be able to tell just how much of the exercise Tom may enjoy. In jumping begin low and increase the height a step at a time. Before you force Tom through tissue covered hoops allow him to jump. through the open space first. A toy ladder or incline may be made with bl-ocks.for the dog-to ascend on two leg^f^y^il&fe.dl^ervation you will 'learn to sta^t 'liihi with the right foot. "Dead dog" and "lame dog" are comical enough, but require considerable training as a rule, while very little will enable Tom to bring and carry clothing, schoolbags, newspapers, balls, slippers and such familiar things to his master. How to Become a Well Read Man. It takes much less time than is generally imagined to acquire a fair knowledge of history. Any average man who will pass the evenings of three winters in reading will rank as a man of remarkable knowledge in an ordinary company. 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