n6 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
Daniel and said: “Well, it’s all over—but I 
do want to tell you how that thing hap¬ 
pened, for I know exactly why Spot’s Rip 
Rap flushed those birds. Last night I had 
occasion to punish him and will admit that 
I was possibly a little bit oversevere. He 
has been mad about it ever since and just got 
even with me to-day by kicking the prize 
money higher than a kite after he had al¬ 
ready won it! If the beggar only hadn’t 
done so well first, it wouldn’t seem quite so 
bad—he sure did a good job of getting even, 
I must confess.” 
A somewhat similar experience is related 
by A. F. Hochwalt in his book, The Modern 
Pointer , on page ioo of which valuable pub¬ 
lication he discusses a like circumstance in 
connection with the famous pointer Fishel’s 
Frank. Quoting verbatim from Mr. Hoch- 
walt’s record, we learn the following: 
The four dogs called back into the second series 
were braced to run as follows: FisheFs Frank with 
Pretty Peggy; Miss Ransom with Caesar. The night 
before the running of the finals the order was posted 
that the dogs were to be at the starting place at seven 
