64 MOOSE-HUNTING, SALMON-FISHING, ETC 



there are duck, and, by jumping up and down, 

 wagging his tail all the time, while he may 

 even be rolling on the ground, then running 

 up and down the shore, that he may attract 

 attention, the inquisitive duck will approach 

 so close that he can spring on it, and thereby 

 secure his breakfast. Bather hard, you will 

 say, on the duck, but all right for the fox ! 

 Now, by acting on this trick of the fox, and 

 training a yellow dog to similar performances, 

 which is easily done when one knows how, 

 results similar to what I have recorded often 

 follow. Talk about $50 for Eeady! why, I 

 would not have accepted $150 for him then. 

 It is not every yellow dog that can be 

 trained as he was, to toll first, and then 

 retrieve. The most of them will toll very 

 well for a time, but soon get so that they want 

 to go in among the ducks. My dog was a 

 cross of a thoroughbred English setter bitch 

 and an Irish setter dog. I kept the old fellow 

 until he was over twelve years old, and then 

 he became so enfeebled with rheumatism that 

 I had him chloroformed. I have shot more 

 birds in a week at Port Joli by the aid of 

 Eeady, than all the local gunners have gathered 



