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the other, never. I can only add that the 
fellow who takes me too literally may miss 
my meaning*. I make this explanation be¬ 
cause in my former edition I was misunder¬ 
stood by some who formed the impression 
that I believe in “babying” dogs and being 
“soft” with them. Such could not be fur¬ 
ther from my thoughts. 
I switched Byrd quite actively. She was 
so excited, however, that it didn’t affect her 
much. I took hold of her head, and shook 
her to bring her to her senses and get 
her attention. Then I held her head while 
I looked right into her eyes and talked to 
her. Had any one heard me he would 
have been reminded of John Taintor Foote’s 
story entitled Shame On You, wherein the 
old Southern darky jockey overcame the 
tendency of his favorite race horse to break, 
by making him stand up all night long while 
the darky simply repeated over and over and 
over again the three words, “Shame on you.” 
That’s about the same way I talked to the 
little dog that day. 
As we are studying the subject of break¬ 
ing a bird dog, however, suppose we just 
