20 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
at least five or six coveys of quail to work on 
—there being nothing in Ohio's (, song bird” 
law against making them fly. 
Before we had made our first trip there, 
however, my little boy suddenly came down 
with scarlet fever and that threw our plans 
to the four winds. I was quarantined away 
from home; and made a business trip to Chi¬ 
cago. When I returned my friend ’phoned 
me one day and suggested that we go out 
early the following morning. I asked him 
what he meant by “early” and he replied that 
no hour would frighten him. We bickered 
back and forth, stalling, until I named the 
hour of five—and five it was agreed upon for 
the next morning. That was the start of as 
pleasant a period as I have ever known, had 
it not been for the fact of my boy’s illness. 
As he was out of danger, however, I had 
nothing to fear and every other morning for 
three weeks we met promptly at $:00 a. m. 
On the very first of these early expeditions 
one of the young Pointers made a particu¬ 
larly nice stand and quite a stanch one, too. 
His master naturally was proud of his dog 
—and I was just as discouraged as he was 
