FACTS AND ANECDOTES 115 
my pleasure and profit to spend a great many 
doggie hours. He immediately told me of 
an experience he witnessed once when he 
was one of the judges at a certain field trial 
down south. The circumstances were not 
similar—except that both show, “They think 
too.” On this occasion Spot’s Rip Rap was 
sweeping all opposition before him by such 
a wide margin that only the most flagrant 
of errors at the eleventh hour could keep 
him from winning. The judges simply 
couldn’t decide against him unless he 
should end up by doing something abso¬ 
lutely unforgiveable. Yet that is exactly 
what he did! He came to a beautiful and 
sensational point on the side of a hill oppo¬ 
site to where the judges and spectators all 
stood—thus staging a most spectacular pos¬ 
sibility as a fitting conclusion to what had 
been a perfect performance. In bold relief 
Spot’s Rip Rap stood out against the sky 
line—a magnificent statue standing his 
birds. Then, all of a sudden, without a 
word of warning, he jumped in and deliber¬ 
ately flushed them! 
That evening Spot’s handler went to Mr. 
