MORE ABOUT GUN-SHYNESS 45 
will develop gun-shyness right on the spot. 
If you train your own dog, and use just a 
little care in the training along the lines I 
have suggested, you will make the right sort 
of a start and then there is but little likeli¬ 
hood that gun-shyness will develop later. I 
can take my Irish Setter out in the field with 
half a dozen fellows and let them fire a regu¬ 
lar barricade into most anything on the face 
of the earth and she will even like it. She 
isn’t any more gun-shy than I am—but there 
would have been a mighty good chance in 
the early days for her to become gun-shy 
had I not exercised every precaution when 
the first shooting was done over her. 
The following letter is a sample of several 
such which came to me as a result of the first 
edition of this book. Because of its definite 
specificness I deem it worthy of publication 
—certain readers may feel greater confidence 
if they know that some of the things I sug¬ 
gest really will work. This came dated No¬ 
vember 12, 1923, from Dr. C. Kelsay, of 
Evansville, Ind. 
