neighbors. In short, make him your 
clog, and you yourself can break him 
Anyhow, most breaking is done at 
home. A bird-dog pup that is trustful 
and obedient will likely do in the hunt¬ 
ing-field what you ask him to do. And 
if he does, why, he’s broken. 
A friend of mine told me of the be¬ 
havior of a setter of his in retrieving 
a quail. He was hunting on a river- 
bank. Off about fifty yards an old 
snag had caught some trash, and as 
more collected there, a big pile had 
accumulated. As the river was affected 
y tides, the trash-heap was deepened 
as the tide ebbed and flowed, alternately 
letting it down and lifting it up, though 
but slightly. The hunter in question 
shot a quail as it rose out of some 
bushes on the bank. It was crippled- 
and m that condition it headed across 
t e river. The setter happened at the 
moment to have fixed her eyes upon the 
bird. The dog saw it, as the hunter 
did, come down on the pile of trash 
ar out m the stream. Immediately 
the setter plunged in to retrieve the 
bird. 
Reaching the pile of sedge, after a 
hard swim, she climbed about on it in 
an attempt to locate the quail. She got 
the scent but not the bird. It evi¬ 
dently had crawled deep under the bed 
°ui tra ?' Then the do8, did a remark¬ 
able thing; apparently she located the 
bird, but decided that she could not 
reach it from above. She therefore re¬ 
entered the water on the leeward side 
o the trash, swam a few yard?, her 
head far out-thrust as if scenting, and 
then crawled in under a dense and 
dripping canopy of the heavy sedge. 
When she emerged, she had the quail- 
and when she dropped it in her owner’s 
hand, who had watched and under¬ 
stood the whole performance, the bird 
was still alive. Even granting that a 
man has had left out of him the power 
to scent game, would he have handled 
the situation so delicately as that, even 
though he had known exactly where the 
bird was hiding? Surely it takes more 
than instinct to do what that setter did. 
Whenever we examine the things that 
bird-dogs do, we are reminded of the 
differences between pointer and setter 
already mentioned. The behavior of 
these two strains on the point will il¬ 
lustrate both these distinctions and the 
mam point that I am trying to make— 
the extraordinary intelligence of these 
grand creatures of the chase. I used 
to hunt a good deal with an old Llewel¬ 
lyn; his pedigree was obscure, but it 
must have been good. This dog was a 
quail specialist. I never knew him to 
lie. Field-sparrows and meadow-larks 
never fooled him. His actions on wind¬ 
ing quail were most extraordinary. 
Slowly, very slowly he would circle with 
a strange, waltz-like motion, his head 
high and on one side, his haunches low, 
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