22 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
good thing, some of these things, such as 
getting over, through or under fences will be 
picked up naturally by himself. Otherwise, 
it becomes a part of the regular education. 
It is a great pleasure to own a dog that will, 
of his own accord, “take” fences that his run¬ 
ning-mates cannot negotiate or are afraid to 
tackle. “It’s all a part of the game,” as Har¬ 
vey King would say. With more maturity, 
of course, your dog should become expert at 
getting through fences, as well as over them, 
and thus waste as little time and effort as 
possible. If he isn’t of the oversized, awk¬ 
ward variety this acquirement will the more 
readily be attained. I never like to see an 
unwieldy dog. But this, of course, is purely 
a personal prejudice. 
Oh, but those were glorious mornings! It 
was during late September and early Oc¬ 
tober and the sun would just be peeping over 
the Eastern horizon as we arrived within 
sight of the farm where we ran the dogs. 
Down a long lane we would go back to the 
fairest little forest you ever saw, beyond 
which stretched far fields of clover and old 
corn, ideal cover for the most glorious of 
