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down the road. The other pigs followed, 
but far enough to the right not to inter- 
fere with each other. Some large bunches 
of birds were found, and as the dogs were 
ali old hands at the business they gave us 
some good shooting for the next hour or 
so. Bob had been doing some good 
work. At least we had not heard any 
protests from his direction, but he soon 
came to the front, having jumped a jack 
rabbit which he ran through a bunch of 
birds that Bess had found for Berkshire. 

Then we had to listen to a few choice re- 
marks from B. about fox hounds and 
-grey hounds, and dogs in general, and 
men in particular who could not tell a 
good dog, like Pete, from a cur like 
Bob. Poor little Bess thought she would 
be blamed for having a hand in the chase, 
and it took a good deal of talk to con- 
vince her she was not. Bob was rele- 
gated to the hind axle and a chain, where 
he evened things up with us by reaching 
up into the wagon and chewing the cover 
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off the lunch basket, while Shote was 
taking a nap. After Suffolk had had an 
understanding with Bob and we _ had 
straightened up our outfit a little, and 
smoothed down some of Berkshire’s bris- 
tles, we started out again, with Fan in the 
lead. She soon found birds and made a 
pretty stand, stopping while in full swing 
and pointing behind her with her nose 
close to her tail. Before Suffolk and 
Scrub Hog reached her we saw her drop 
her point, and after looking at us with 


TO EVEN UP MATTERS, BOB CRUISED 
AROUND UNTIL HE JUMPED A SKUNK, » 
AND AFTER A SHORT BUT SHARP SET- 
TO, RETURNED TO THE WAGON FOR 
SYMPATHY. 

a disgusted expression on her face, sit 
down and wait for Suffolk. When we 
got to her we found her on the edge of a 
large mowing, and we could see a bunch 
of birds running as fast as they could for 
the high grass on the other side of the 
patch. This was the first and only time 
I ever saw Fan at a loss as to what to 
do. She looked to Suffolk for instruc- 
tions, but before he could give them Mike 
came up on the farther side and the birds, 
seeing their retreat from cover cut off, 
