;o BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
pression. I felt, furthermore, that sufficient 
punishment lay in my brusque statement 
that he couldn’t expect a bite of breakfast be¬ 
fore we reached Piqua. I called his attention 
to the time, and urged haste. He came 
through wonderfully and in a mighty few 
minutes we were all set and ready to go. 
And go we did. We left Mr. King’s house 
at exactly 4:30 in the morning and were due 
in Piqua, twenty-eight miles away, at 
promptly 5:15. That gave us only three- 
quarters of an hour. Yet it was just forty- 
five minutes later that I stopped the little 
bus in front of our meeting place by the 
Piqua post office. Of course the lack of 
traffic at that early hour had helped us make 
speed. 
The fellows in Piqua seemed almost dis¬ 
appointed that we got there on time. I be¬ 
lieve now that they scarcely thought we 
would. I think they rather had hoped to 
have an opportunity to josh us about prom¬ 
ising to be there at 5:15 and not making it. 
But the tables were turned. It gave us no 
little satisfaction to find, on arrival, that only 
one of the Piqua hunters was already wait- 
