16 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
and one of the four really remarkable dogs 
that I have owned and loved—though I have 
two unusual puppies coming along now 
which bid fair to raise the count to six. These 
puppies are Smada Byrd's King and Byrd's 
Eileen, a son and a daughter of Smada 
Byrd. Of course I realize there will also be 
more as time goes on. 
I once had a dog that I thought of show¬ 
ing on the bench, yet I could not seem to get 
him to pose properly so as to display his 
points of excellence. He just wouldn't 
“stand” for me. But one evening I came 
home to find that my little boy had accom¬ 
plished what I had failed to do—the dog 
stood perfectly for him and even seemed 
delighted to do so. And so I say to you who 
would break a bird dog—or teach a dog to 
do anything at all—the closer you can ap¬ 
proach the boy type of perfect companion¬ 
ship the more natural will the teaching seem 
and the surer will the results take form. 
The second time I took Byrd out for a les¬ 
son nothing of particular interest came up. 
Mrs. Lytle and my boy went along and the 
only exciting incidents were that on the way 
