Perhaps there is a mountain that 
needs a long - and deliberate survey, or 
at least inspection. Perhaps a valley, 
the most beautiful, is close at hand. 
Possibly, some noble tree stands by, 
waiting - the appreciative observation— 
a lone nymph starved for lack of under¬ 
standing - , as the spirit of a maple, or 
an elm, or an oak, or a lone pine on a 
mountain. 
Accidents seem often, as one remem¬ 
bers them, to be a part of some great 
design. Every one has its lesson; per¬ 
haps careless driving was responsible, 
perhaps carelessness in failing to 
tighten burrs, or oil contacts; perhaps 
poor judgment in selecting ruts, or 
changing ruts in a bad highway. Study 
of conditions paves the way toward 
avoiding future difficulties—that at 
least is the lesson of any result of vio¬ 
lated highway rules or mechanical de¬ 
mands. 
But I feel sure, when one has ex¬ 
ercised every reasonable precaution, 
and performed his own part through¬ 
out, and all have made the most and 
the best of crisis, emergencies and op¬ 
portunities, keeping in good spirits and 
glad, at least, nothing is worse—if one 
has done his best, and something hap¬ 
pens, by all means make sure that the 
mishap is not, after all, a hint to make 
the most of the event, by seeing what 
is generally there or close at hand, some 
special glory of the countless splendors 
of our country. 
Often, it is well to stop, even if there 
is nothing the matter, making the ex¬ 
cuse of trying to find something loose 
or going astray—right where all hands 
can see what there is to see, as a vista 
of lane between fields of tall corn, or 
along the enormous east-slope of the 
Rocky Mountain range. 
PHEASANTS AND 
FIELD DOGS 
(Continued from page 551) 
bird and it was decided to keep quiet 
and let him alone. Several attempts 
were made by the dog in which he 
would swim out four or five feet then 
turn around and swim back to shore. 
Finally he mastered his fears, swam 
straight out till he was directly up¬ 
stream from the bird, turned with the 
current, and grabbing the big bird by 
the head, towed him to shore. It was 
nice work and he has continued to re¬ 
trieve. 
To have a real dependable retriever 
though, he must be force-broken. The 
forced retriever understands certain 
commands and will obey them under 
all circumstances. The writer has de¬ 
scribed in detail the method used in 
teaching forced retrieving in a previous 
issue of Forest and Stream. The big 
setter shown in the photo is proudly 
holding a big cock pheasant in his 
mouth, waiting for his master to take 
it. To be steady to shot, hunt for and 
find the dead bird at command, bring 
it in to his master and sit down in front 
of him, still holding the bird, is about 
perfection in retrieving. 
Where hunting is done on horseback 
as in quail hunting, the retriever is 
sometimes taught to stand on his hind 
legs and place the bird in the hunters’ 
hand while he is still in the saddle. The 
dog in the photo was retrieving almost 
anything about the yard when he was a 
four months old pup. He grew tired 
of the job and refused. He was then 
put through a course in forced retriev- 
ing. He is now a master of the game. 
The first bird killed over him was prop¬ 
erly handled, and every bird since has 
been. There is no grabbing by the 
head, tail, or wing, or biting and muss¬ 
ing the feathers. The whole bird is 
carefully taken in his mouth and 
scarcely a feather is torn. The force- 
broken retriever understands certain 
commands, and if properly trained will 
obey them under all conditions. A bird 
may be killed by a hunter while his dog 
is a long way off. 
With the force-broken retriever, the 
dog is called in and told to find the 
dead bird. He understands whatever 
command is used and will hunt for and 
find the bird. With a natural retriever, 
if he did not see the bird fall, it is more 
or less luck if the bird is found. 
Put your good bird dog through a 
course in forced retrieving, and you 
will have a retriever that you can de¬ 
pend on. 
I '"A** * M9»( 
HUNTING THE 
WHITETAIL 
(Continued from page 549) 
leaves are wet under the thawing rays 
of the sun. And yet, directly contrary 
to all this, you may happen, by a stroke 
of good luck, to bag a large deer under 
conditions that seem to oppose in every 
way a successful hunt. A buck en¬ 
grossed in digging for beech nuts may 
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