ON DACHSHUNDS loi 



the same thing happens with cocker spaniels. 

 It is, after all, a mere question of training. 

 I have often shot partridges over dachshunds, 

 and had some dogs that would road a covey 

 steadily a field or two. In roots they are 

 capital when kept In close, and will find and 

 put up every bird of a scattered covey. 

 They could certainly be taught to retrieve. 

 I have a bitch now that finds and stays 

 beside every lost bird, but Is too old to learn 

 to fetch them. My German friends, who are 

 great sticklers for the traditions of sport, 

 tried to make me see that It was not "cor- 

 rect " to shoot partridges over dachshunds. 

 One of them asked, at the very moment I had 

 a couple busy In the beetroot field we 

 were crossing, "What would you do If a 

 hare got up?" "Why, that," I answ^ered, 

 rolling one over which the dogs put up. 



