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In the broad prairie, the chicken country where to 

 the untrained eye there is little difference of ground 

 surface apparent, the dog may not need to exercise 

 so much good judgment as in seeking quail, but he 

 needs to exercise it, nevertheless. The prairie, from 

 where the beholder stands to the horizon, has its 

 lesser and greater undulations, with their innumer- 

 able miniature water sheds, forming networks of hol- 

 lows, in which are much coarser and ranker grasses 

 than are those of the higher ground. Therein are 

 concealment and shelter to the chickens during the 

 night and the midday hours. 



In the morning and evening, their favorite time of 

 food-seeking, the chickens frequent the grain fields 

 in the season when the grain is fit for their food ; or 

 the higher ground, where the growth is shorter, 

 when insect life is more abundant. 



Of the dogs which range at high speed, a large 

 percentage run faster than their noses and judgment 

 warrant if we consider the best possible results. In- 

 deed, some run so fast and hurriedly that they do not 

 take time to dwell even for a moment in searching 

 out the likely "places, although they have the general 

 appearance of earnest and good industry. They 



