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a dog to show a better advantage. His nose is 

 the best, and he minds to perfection. He adapts 

 himself to any country he may be in. 



Some two or three years ago I bought Sport's 

 Belle. I have hunted over her for the past two 

 years, and she, like my other trial winners, is a 

 most excellent dog to shoot over. 



I have had some other very good dogs, but to 

 my mind they are not to be compared with the 

 dogs I have mentioned. In other words, my idea 

 of a high-class shooting dog is a dog good enough 

 to be placed in the Southern trials. Yet I do not 

 think the average sportsman could take a dog 

 home after a field trial and use him to shoot over 

 without some further training. The average 

 sportsman is too eager for game to give a dog a 

 fair chance. Mr. Devereux and myself have gone 

 South for eleven years, and pretty much every 

 year Gray has been with us. After a dog was 

 through field trial work we would go out with 

 Gray, and Gray would handle the dogs, and in 

 his care these dogs became accustomed to shoot- 

 ing and to the general mix-up that is apt to 

 occur when birds get up and several are killed 

 or wounded. Always in the fall in Ohio-, Mr. 

 Devereux and myself handle the dogs alone. In 

 this manner they have been accustomed to be 

 shot over, and have made practical shooting dogs. 



Harwick, Uncle B., Colonel R. and Sport's 



