CHAPTER X 
FURTHER FACTS AND ANECDOTES 
OU will encounter all sorts of un¬ 
usual experiences in work with a 
dog. There was, for instance, the 
day my wife ’phoned my office in great con¬ 
sternation and told me that Byrd had come 
home with a quail in her mouth which she 
had evidently caught herself! My poor 
wife didn’t know whether she should take 
the bird away from the dog or not. While 
we were still discussing it, she suddenly an¬ 
nounced that the little Setter had started to 
eat the quail—which performance she could 
see going on through the window. 
That noon at the Club I mentioned the cir¬ 
cumstance to a number of old timers present, 
and almost all of them expressed surprise 
that I was not more worried over the af¬ 
fair. Regardless of their opinions, however, 
I couldn’t be convinced that it was so ter- 
