46 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
Want to say that I have a Llewellen Setter that 
I purchased late last fall because he had the mark¬ 
ings and looks of a dog that I once had and of which 
I thought a great deal, which was killed by an auto¬ 
mobile. I took my dog out Saturday, November 
ioth, and remembered that you mentioned in one of 
the paragraphs that it was better to have a dog on a 
point before doing any shooting because of being 
gun-shy and my dog was so gun-shy that usually the 
sound of a 22-short-rifle shot would make him hunt 
his dog house, but glad to say that Saturday he came 
to a point on a single bird and when I shot with a 16- 
gauge shotgun, he paid absolutely no attention to 
it whatever. Continued hunting and in a short time 
had another bird. This was repeated several times 
without his paying any attention to the shooting and 
believe his gun-shyness is a thing of the past and 
that he will make as good a dog as the one I lost. 
This alone is worth the price of the book and your 
other stories come about as near to being true de¬ 
scriptions and true understanding of the canine spe¬ 
cies as anything I have ever read. 
Some time back Mr. George Breunig, of 
Bloomer, Wisconsin, sent me a young dog 
for training, but she was recalled for the sea¬ 
son before she was much more than started. 
His letter, which follows, is self-explanatory 
