OCTOBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
491 
hundred yards away they flap their wings 
and preen their' feathers as the rising sun 
begins to warm them, and now I guess we 
will “show the dog.” Reaching into the 
back pocket of my hunting coat, I pull out 
a hard rubber ball. Just look at Buff, who 
has been watching my every movement; 
see the pupils of his eyes dilate as he spies 
the ball! Did you ever see such concen¬ 
tration as he watches that sphere of rub¬ 
ber! Next to his master it is the dearest 
thing on earth to him. One bounce of it 
upon the kitchen floor will lure him from 
the finest dish of roast beef scraps and 
gravy without a moment’s hesitation. 
I can divine your thoughts without much 
study now. You are thinking “what a 
shame to scare those ducks” and that per¬ 
haps they may come on shore again as the 
tide begins to fall, and you cannot help 
feeling certain that every duck will “jump” 
as soon as he sees the dog. But wait, you 
watch the ducks, and whatever you do, 
■don’t shoot until I give the word, for it 
is the sure ruination of a Tolling dog to 
shoot over him while he is outside the 
blind. If you do so, your dog will soon 
want the first shot himself, and when the 
birds come close, he is likely to plunge in 
after them without waiting for the gun. 
P ATCHES of sand stretch out upon 
each side of us and afford a footing 
for the dog, and we can play him from 
either side of the blind. I toss the ball 
and away goes Buff; picking it up, he can¬ 
ters back and drops it in my hand. Out 
again go ball and dog. I watch your face 
and it is a study, as through the “peek- 
hole” in the seaweed you anxiously watch 
the birds and this is what you see: With 
stretched necks and wondering eyes, every 
•duck looks intently at the dog, and-as the 
ball falls in among some dead seaweed, 
causing him to use his nose to find it, his 
bushy red tail works and wiggles above the 
beach grass, and a dozen birds turn and 
swim for shore, their necks a second ago 
stretched so long now folded in, and with 
soft meamp-amp, meamp they swim rap¬ 
idly toward us with just a gentle breath 
of wind behind them. Buff plays beauti¬ 
fully, returning with the ball even faster 
than he romps after it. How round the 
birds look with their necks drawn in, giv¬ 
ing them a stupid appearance,* and the sun¬ 
light shimmering from the yellow bills of 
the drakes. Now as the dog comes near 
os again, the hot scent of duck strikes his 
sensitive nostrils; and stopping with up¬ 
raised paw, he looks toward them, but a 
chirp brings him back to us. Not for 
worlds would he refuse to “play.” See 
him tremble as we push up the safeties of 
•our guns. Here are the birds right against 
us, though not well bunched, being strung 
•out across our front. They are only thirty- 
five yards or so away when Buff drops the 
ball into my open palm for the last time, 
and I whisper “Down.” Now there is one 
of two things to do, we may either rise up 
and shoot, picking out our birds and try¬ 
ing to stop one with each barrel, or remain 
•quiet until the ducks begin to get uneasy, 
and not seeing the dog, start to swim away, 
when they will invariably bunch. 
If you can forget the freezing nights and 
blustery days when you have almost per¬ 
ished waiting for a shot, or perhaps the 
long crawls through slush or mud when 
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