CHAPTER II 
GETTING ON GAME 
►OUT this time I was talking with a 
friend about the breaking of his 
two young Pointers and we decided 
to take our dogs out together for a run—al¬ 
though this thing of taking young dogs into 
the field together is a very poor practice as a 
rule. They are a bad influence on each 
other. It is better to take only one young 
dog at a time, and with a dependable old dog 
to set a good example. But the stage which 
our dogs had reached at that time was not 
such that much harm could result, as none of 
them were far enough along to have any¬ 
thing to spoil. My friend, who had been the 
last President of the Dayton Pointer Club, 
was as ardent a dog lover as myself—which 
is saying a good deal. He invited me to go 
out to his father’s place, about five miles 
from town, and promised that we would find 
