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in very cold weather. Fetching out one or two 

 ducks does no harm, and good ones like it; but to 

 be long in the "water at such times is very try- 

 ing. I never afterwards suffered Fanny to do 

 more in that line than she could perform without 

 injury. 



Sometimes when going pinnated-grouse shoot- 

 ing, and passing along in my wagon early in the 

 morning, I would have a chance to shoot one. 

 On these occasions she would jump out, retrieve 

 it, and jump back into the wagon with the bird 

 in her mouth. If I drove for grouse in ploughed 

 land or in grass-fields that had been mowed, 

 with Fanny in the back of the wagon, she 

 would, on seeing the birds, point from the wagon, 

 and maintain her point all the while as I drove 

 on to get within shot. One time, when going out 

 for grouse to the Delavan Prairie, Fanny, went 

 into a corn-field at the edge of the timber, and 

 I, paying no attention, drove on. Finding that 

 she was not following, I pulled up, after having 

 gone a considerable distance, and whistled for her. 

 She stayed a long time, but came at last, bring- 

 ing with her a wild turkey three parts grown. 

 1 had recently had her out when turkey-shoot- 

 ing, and she was the best dog I ever saw to 



