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BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
ameter at the hardware store and tie this to 
the end of a stout cord some forty feet long. 
Loop the cord through this ring to make a 
noose to slip over the dog’s head; and the 
choke feature of this device will be as severe 
as you have any right or reason to want. For 
those who prefer a more fancy store-made 
device, however, there are a number of very 
good choke collars on the market which may 
be ordered through most any bird-dog ken¬ 
nel, sporting goods store or outdoor maga¬ 
zine. 
The balance of that first lesson of Byrd’s 
was devoted to working out the singles of 
the one covey we found and trying to de¬ 
cide just what would be the best way 
to overcome her seemingly unconscious lack 
of appreciation of what it should mean to 
have right there under her very nose the 
foremost of the game birds, to hunt which 
she and her ancestors before her had been 
born and bred. Every time Ned pointed she 
went heedlessly right on past him. Yet, 
when we tried to put the check cord on her, 
she would just quit cold and slink at my 
heels, doubled up like a limp rag. I soon 
