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hill in a sheltered hollow fringed with a few 

 scattered bushes, or under a large bush in a 

 boggy meadow, and we have even found them 

 in a rough, stony country, huddled in the hol- 

 low of a large stump. In stormy weather they 

 retire into the woods, in which situations we 

 have flushed them from under a thick cedar 

 bush. On the day in question, the first point 

 after we left the spring, occurred in a line of 

 thick grass close to a rail fence. The birds 

 flew from thence into an open woods, and the 

 covey being a very full one, we had considerable 

 sport in picking up the scattered birds. In hunt- 

 ing up these, T. bagged a woodcock and a ruffed 

 grouse, the first over a point by the setter, while 

 the last sprang at the report of his gun dis- 

 charged at a partridge, and was wing-tipped, at 

 a long shot, with the second barrel. 



A circumstance attended the retrieving of this 

 bird, which went far to show some traits in the 

 disposition of the pointer dog, Czar. It was shot 

 from the edge of a ravine in the woods, and fell 

 among the thick brush at the bottom. I was 

 then in full sight of my companion, with Czar 

 hunting on the brink of the broken ground in ad- 

 vance. Contrary to the dog's custom and regu- 

 lar rule of training, at the report of T.'s gun, he 



