go in and do your own flushing, and 
you could gamble your life on it the 
birds were invariably there. 
On two occasions I have seen dogs 
point birds under heavy snow drifts, 
where they had buried themselves for 
shelter and warmth. You will never 
see this done except. by dogs with the 
most sensitive noses. 
Another good performance is to have 
a dog catch scent from a bird in a tree 
overhead and stand. Frequently grouse 
jump into trees upon the approach of a 
dog, but I have seen birds pointed in 
trees, that I am well assured had not 
been on the ground recently before the 
dog came that way. 
Sometimes dogs, with a peculiar char- 
acteristic in some method in hunting, 
will even transmit this trait to his off- 
spring, and here is an illustration, for 
this dog’s puppies for several genera- 
tions were prone to do this. In the quail 
fields there are days when the birds 
run fast ahead of a dog, and on such 
days this dog I have in mind would find 
birds and hold his point until you came 
to him, and then he would break his 
point and make a big circular run, at 
a spectacular pace, and keeping well 
away from his birds he would head them 
off and go down in the grass flat on his 
belly, and you could gamble the birds 
were directly between you and the dog. 
On a prairie trip I took a friend’s dog 
along to give him experience and he 
saw this dog do this circling trick on 
chickens. He concluded it was worth 
doing and he also performed it with 
success, so you see dogs learn methods 
from others. I have a dog now who 
retrieves well. I saw him jealously 
watch another dog I had, retrieve, and 
I told a hunting companion that I felt 
sure this pup would retrieve our next 
bird down, and he did. 
Dogs often learn things easily them- 
selves from observation, that trainers 
spend weeks to teach them. One pup 
I have in mind flushed all the birds he 
came to for several days. I determined 
not to whip him, but to show him the 
use of the gun, so presently he made a 
point and I crowded in and steadied him 
and killed the bird, and he was surely 
surprised and pleased. A little .arther 
on he stood and I crowded in again and 
killed him a pair, and after that he was 
looking for you out of the corner of his 
eye to see if you were coming with the 
gun to do it again. 
Professor Osthaus painted a picture, 
in which a dog was shown pointing 
from the top of an old rail fence. I 
have had sportsmen question the valid- 
ity of such a performance and attribute 
it to the Professor’s imagination. I have 
seen this done three times myself. A 
dog will point in most any situation he 
may find himself. I saw one dog point 
birds from a wagon pulled by a pair 
of mules on a main highway, scenting 
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