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I would suggest your spending several weeks 

 with her mth the gun, but without shells, walking 

 up one covey after another, until she gets thor- 

 oughly fond of hunting. It seems to me that you 

 have enough to do at present to teach her in 

 getting her staunch, etc., without bothering with 

 the gun. Later on you can try killing one quail 

 on the rise and letting her find it, until you get 

 her used to retrieving. From that time on she 

 will come to regard the gun as part of the game 

 of hunting and will get over what fear of hunting 

 she has now. 



