Harvard was resourceful, however, so 
he led Don over to a wire fence that 
extended down to the shore, found a 
loose strand of wire which he attached 
to Don’s collar and tied him to the fence 
post. Fine! Then he started in on 
those decoys and in a few moments had 
tossed them all out in a neatly arranged 
line along the shore, very lifelike, and 
destined to attract more than one wily 
mallard to his doom. Everything fixed 
fine. Don was then led to the blind 
where Harvard retained a fast hold on 
his collar, in the meantime keeping up 
his steady flow of endearing terms and 
expert instruction. Don seemed to quiet 
down, but Jim, still chuckling, gave me 
an occasional poke in the ribs which 
kept my attention on the blind. 
Suddenly, with a wild yelp that must 
have been heard for miles, Don broke 
away and was off like a torpedo for 
the decoys. Twenty-four trips were 
made. Twenty-four decoys lay in a 
muddle on the lake shore. Harvard 
stood up in the blind talking to himself, 
which conversation must be left to your 
imagination. 
“Alright, you unsophisticated mut, 
will you please proceed to acquire some 
real education?” So saying, he picked 
up the big redhead from the blind and 
threw it as far as he could out into the 
lake. Away went Don and seized the 
duck in his mouth. With a startled look 
he dropped it immediately, nosed it a 
few times, and swam back to shore 
without it. Harvard seemed to run out 
of conversation. Then he tried an old 
stunt to encourage the retriever. Pick- 
ing up a stone about the size of his 
hand he tossed it out, almost striking 
the duck. 
It struck with a loud splash and away 
went Don. He swam rings around the 
duck but paid no attention to it. Then 
he started diving. Down he went, then 
up, and then down again, finally com- 
ing to the surface with a good sized 
stone, swam to shore and deposited it 
at the feet of the overjoyed Harvard. 
Assuming a professional pose Har- 
vard relieved himself: “That sturdy 
chest. The delightful contour of those 
wonderful limbs. That beautiful water- 
proof coat. That noble brow. By what 
miscarriage in the plans of the Great 
Creator have you been endowed with 
these, that depict with such fidelity the 
characteristics of the great strain from 
which you come? Could we but delve 
into the uttermost recesses of that pea- 
nut brain that must somewhere rest in 
unimportant obscurity ’neath that noble 
brow, would not science claim discovery 
of influences emanating from an an- 
cestry of the tropics that lived in trees 
and subsisted on the plentiful cocoa- 
nut? But, it is not for me to violate 
the ethics of my profession by attempt- 
ing to introduce your past. To do so 
would but invite the charge of irrele- 
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