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that their former location on the Gilfillan farm near 
Marshall, Minnesota, had been unsatisfactory for 
several years and they wished him to select a new 
location for them. I had just come down from 
North Dakota a short time before, so Mr. Gunckel 
took the matter up with me, and I finally located the 
Dakota Hunting Club at Stump Lake, North Dakota, 
which is south and east of Devil’s Lake, and there 
they hunted for a number of years with great suc¬ 
cess. I remember on their first trip out they wired 
me they would stop over a day in Minneapolis to 
rest their dogs, so I spent the day with them; saw 
all of their dogs and heard their tales of how finely 
they were bred and trained, some of them being 
field-trial and derby winners, but all of the highest 
breeding. I learned they were trained entirely on 
quail, but said nothing then. However, when they 
returned I asked them how their dogs worked, and 
they told me they were very disappointed, that mon¬ 
grel dogs they picked up out there beat them all 
hollow. It was then I advised them where the mis¬ 
take was made; as when I went to Fargo in ’81 I 
took up my Irish Setter that had never seen a prairie 
chicken, but was used on quail, jacksnipe and wood¬ 
cock. It took me nearly all the fall season to break 
him to stop soon enough, though he did not run in 
or intend to flush. Of course I was working in the 
office and only had one day a week to devote to him, 
