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on our way. We must have gone more than a 
mile, the dog quartering the ground at the 
gallop, and yet no more birds were found. 
The South African sun at midday was awfully 
hot, and I found it impossible to keep anywhere 
near the dog, which, despite my admonitions, 
was getting further and further ahead, and must 
have been two hundred yards off, and approach¬ 
ing a spring. Poor beast, I thought, he is 
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afraid the birds may rise before I can get within 
shot. When still a hundred yards off he is seen 
advancing stealthily foot by foot, his belly al¬ 
most touching the ground. Again he squats. 
At last I arrive on the scene. Going up to him 
once more, I again urge him to draw on, with¬ 
out avail, so step in front. A little walking 
backward and forward and up springs a fine 
covey, out of which I drop two birds; but still 
the dog will not move, and further tramping 
within a yard of him flushes another bird which 
is also killed. Having only come out for a 
trial trip, I now make for home and lunch. 
-I his was my first experience of shooting over 
dogs in South Africa, but if was followed by 
many others. 1 he owner of the dog and f used 
to make a point of getting one whole day a 
week, when we would also be accompanied by 
the bitch. Though her nose was nothing like 
so good as the dog’s, she had not the same ob¬ 
jection to drawing up to the point, which 
proved an immense saving of time. On such 
occasions we would consider we had done well 
if we bagged eight brace of “partridges,” 
though we would often succeed in killing a few 
quail, hares, and duck, and sometimes a bustard 
(paauw) goose, or one of the smaller bucks. 
The red dog, as he came to be called, would set 
steinbuck, hares, and even koorhan, though the 
temptation to chase the two first named was one 
he was unable to resist once they moved. 
Many other happy days did I spend up hill 
and down dale over the veld, now pottering by 
the side of a little stream or picking my way 
through scattered boulders on the higher 
ground, favorite spots for “partridges,” I on 
horseback, armed with a double-barrel shotgun 
and a Mauser pistol in case of the chance of a 
long shot at a buck, the red dog running along¬ 
side. When he scented anything I would dis¬ 
mount, throw the reins over the horse’s neck in 
the certainty that, with the reins thus dragging 
on the ground, even if I should leave him for 
as long as an hour I should still find him there 
on my return, and make off to the dog to get 
a shot to his point. 
Again, I would see some bustards in the dis¬ 
tance, and, calling the red dog to heel, would 
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