54 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
of Harry’s. At any rate, I was very much in¬ 
terested in the Outers-Recreation articles on dogs 
while you were the editor of that column, and I 
noticed with pleasure the inset of the oil painting 
by Harvey King; and here incidentally will say that 
Harvey took lessons in painting from my aunt, who 
is now Mrs. J. H. Pierce, so you see I am pretty 
familiar with the situation in Dayton and the old 
timers. 
Your methods of breaking a dog have been similar 
to those that I have experienced in substance, and it 
has always been my practice to yard break the dog 
first, get him to be chummy and have confidence in 
me before I took him into the field. When in the 
field I studied his natural inclinations and sought to 
correct only his faults, which I have found a very 
success fid process. 
You refer to Judge Britt Brown and Jim Crane. 
It was Jim Crane that I got my last two pointer 
puppies from. They were Rip Rap and Jingo 
stock, and they certainly were world beaters. I 
trained them myself. The picture of “Old John” in 
Harvey King’s inset is almost a perfect picture of 
“Old Logan,” the dog that Jim sent me. 
In your book you mention the Dakota Hunting 
Club as shooting in the Black Hills Country. It 
happens that Judge A. A. Winters, who was a mem¬ 
ber of the club, wrote P. H. Gunckel here, advising 
