a62 WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 
was Colonel with the chickens between him and our- 
selves, and he was running against the stalks. He knew 
the birds would fly away from that noise, and so they 
would, presenting to us quartering shots. 
There was something truly wonderful about that dog. 
It wasn’t instinct, it wasn’t inherited qualities, but it 
seemed like human wisdom transferred to the brain of 
an animal. I have never seen another like him, in his 
knowledge of the habits and pecuharities of birds. 
One time Mr. Tate and myself bagged 76 quails and 
128 mallards in two and one half days with him. 
* Bring up achild in the way he should go, and when 
he is old he will not depart from it.” This apples equally 
well to dogs, and one cannot commence their training 
at too early an age. There can be no great love with- 
out confidence and respect. See to it, then, that when 
you start out to educate a puppy, that the first thing 
you do is to gain its confidence. When in its puppy- 
hood it fondly licks the hand that pets it, you see 
that you are on the first step that will lead you into the 
recesses of its heart. The road is open and clear to 
you for the present ; the ruts and obstructions will show 
themselves afterwards. Make a good deal of the puppy ; 
let your actions toward it be only those coming spon- 
taneously, ever showing that you are to be this animal's 
friend. “ Kind words never die, they are cherished and 
blessed.” So they will be with this puppy ; and when 
once you have won his heart, nothing but death will 
separate you and it, nothing can take it from you. 
During the first few months of its life one cannot ex- 
pect to do much, for this living, breathing animal is but 
a chunk of romping innocence. But now is the time 
to win its affections. Romp with it, pet it. Choice bits 
