i H BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
stop a minute and analyze that situation. 
Consider these facts: We were on the golf 
course, where she had not been accustomed 
to find birds. She had never known of my 
attempting to find birds in that location. 
Furthermore, as I have already said, I was 
dressed up in my Sunday-go-to-meetin’ duds, 
and wasn’t out looking for birds— and she 
knew it . In the next place, I had no gun nor 
any sort of weapon with me to have got the 
birds if she had held them. Don’t ever think 
for a minute that the little dog didn’t take 
all this into consideration. In the light of 
later events, I am sure of it. I am con¬ 
vinced that the chief reason she flushed 
those birds was that she thought it wouldn’t 
make any difference in the circumstances 
which I have mentioned. This thought was 
strengthened in her mind (almost justified, 
I have since come to think) when I paid ab¬ 
solutely no heed to her point and kept walk¬ 
ing right along without giving the work any 
sort of recognition. So she simply thought 
she might as well have some fun. 
I was relating this experience one day to 
Mr. Nicholas Daniel, with whom it has been 
