138 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
Popular Magazine. It is a splendid bird-dog 
story with an Irish Setter as the heroine and 
from it I have taken three short, but mighty 
sentences, which I have chosen as the most 
fitting possible thought to leave with you in 
ending this chapter, which concludes my 
message in this book, so far as training is 
concerned—the other chapters that follow 
not bearing directly upon this subject. Mr. 
von Ziekursch says: “To the really great 
bird dog the art of the hunt comes naturally 
and by instinct. Man has taught the might¬ 
iest champions of the field very, very little. 
Few have been injured by insufficient tu¬ 
toring—but many have been injured by too 
much.” 
Rev. William Bulloch, of Harrison, New 
York, has very kindly given permission to 
reprint his poem “Loskin Ben” from a re¬ 
cent issue of the American Field: 
LOSKIN BEN 
Your feet scarce seem to touch the ground, 
As with a lightsome joyous bound 
You spring to where the birds are found. 
Fleet-footed Ben. 
