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point a wild turkey. I have no doubt she stood 

 at that turkey a long time, and only went in to 

 catch it herself when called off. She could soon 

 understand what I was after. If rabbit-shooting, 

 she would stand and retrieve them, and, if not, 

 she would not notice them. 



Once, shooting pinnated grouse when they were 

 wild, I found there was a flock on a fence two or 

 three hundred yards off. I had a muzzle-loader, 

 and hanging my shot-belt and powder-flask on the 

 fence, I crawled up so as to be within shot when 

 the grouse flew. I killed one, and winged another 

 with the second barrel. In retrieving the wounded 

 one Fanny winded a bevy of quail, and stood hard 

 with the winged grouse fluttering in her mouth. 

 The quail were twenty yards off from her in some 

 corn, but nevertheless she stood hard and fast with 

 the grouse fluttering in her mouth, while I went back 

 two hundred yards for the powder and shot, loaded, 

 and returned. I then took the grouse from her, 

 whereupon she flushed the quail, and I killed a 

 brace. This was one of the greatest things I have 

 ever known a dog to do. The grouse was alive 

 and fluttering ; with a dead bird in her mouth the 

 performance would not have been so very remarka- 

 ble. 



