tail was eloquent. It was never still, 
and I was told afterward that it was 
never more active than when the owner 
was engaged in battle. 
Our host having invited us to climb 
in, I asked where his bird dogs were. 
My own had been snugly stored away 
in a bed of clean straw under the back 
seat. 
“Oh, I thought I wouldn’t risk show- 
ing mine against yours,” was the coun- 
tryman’s reply as he picked up the 
reins preparatory to starting. 
I gave my New Orleans friend an I 
told you so! look and felt that pride of 
ownership which somehow is most 
satisfying when the matter of good 
hunting dog's or horseflesh is concerned. 
It was a remarkably fine bird coun- 
try, in fact the vicinity of Magnolia at 
the present time is very hard to beat; 
and we didn’t have to drive far before 
we came to cover that was promising. 
A small boy had been brought along to 
take charge of the team and the lun- 
cheon, and we made our preparations 
to shoot straight across an extensive 
cotton plantation which we were as- 
sured belonged to a man with whom our 
friend was on very good terms. The 
boy was to walk the horses and meet 
us at a fork in the road. 
The first thing I noticed when I had 
loaded my sixteen bore was the mongrel 
that had galloped under the wagon, 
his nose in close proximity to the 
horse’s heels the four or five miles we 
had driven. He wasn’t even panting 
after that run and his muscles stood 
out in ridges. 
There was a look of eager expectancy 
in his wistful eyes as he saw the 
preparations for the chase, and when 
we struck into the cotton field, with its 
furrows and ditches boot top high, with 
ragweed and other cover for quail, he 
was right at his master’s heels. My 
pair in answer to a wave of the hand 
were off like a pair of racehorses. 
Then something happened. 
Go on, there, Dinks! he continued. 
My dogs were well in advance, cut- 
ting up the territory in field trial 
fashion. That ugly cur sprang for- 
ward at the word of command, and the 
way he quartered right and left made 
me stare. That tail was busier than 
ever and his head was up in the air 
searching for body scent like a field 
trial champion. 
In two minutes he worked to the left 
and entered an old ditch, roading 
stealthily in the manner some of our 
best dogs have when the scent is warm 
and he was certainly the picture of 
business and caution combined. 
‘Dinks has ’em!” said the country- 
man with finality, and one pair work- 
ing back caught sight of the mongrel, 
stanch as a rock, motionless as a statue, 
save for his tail, which moved as 
though palsied. 
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