waiting for the dog and gun to come 
up. Doubtless the old ten bore Scott 
would be as effective as it ever was— 
those English gun makers build for 
three generations—but it would need 
be handled differently. 
NSTEAD of moving up behind his mo- 
tionless dog and flushing the bird 
when he was ready for it and with some 
general idea at least of where it was 
coming from and whither it would go, 
Warden would oftener be faced with 
the alternative of taking a snap shot 
ata fleeting shadow of a bird or taking 
most of his ammunition home with him 
at nightfall. 
The best grouse dog now-a-days 
seems called upon to employ a judicious 
combination of both grouse and quail 
tactics, as those things were understood 
twenty years ago. He must be able to 
employ a ground-covering gait in order 
to locate dispersed singles without loss 
of time. Once he has winded game he 
must develop and employ a very acute 
instinct as to how his approach can 
‘be made in order to force the bird to 
lie for his point. It may be that a 
slow, cautious, cat-footed advance will 
do the trick on one occasion—and this 
is more likely to be the case if the bird 
has been flushed and shot at earlier 
in the day—but there are grouse that 
can only be made to lie by a rapid, 
rushing approach which stops just 
short of the bird’s concealment. 
A GROUSE, like a human being, can 
often plan and carry out a very 
nervy campaign if it has a little time 
in which to consider the value of the 
moves of its opponent, but it can also, 
like some men, be forced into a state 
of frozen immobility if the emergency 
is abrupt and menacing enough. How 
one is to go about perfecting a dog in 
methods so opposite I do not know, nor 
do f think it can be done at all unless 
the animal is unusually clever in the 
acquirement of bird knowledge. But it 
is certain that the good old methods 
are no longer to be relied upon and 
that there must be a radical change, 
either in the training of the dog or in 
the shooter’s own method of hunting. 
One can always find plenty of experi- 
enced shots who will aver that they can 
secure more grouse without a dog than 
they can with canine assistnce, and 
this is an assertion rarely disputed by 
any one who has tried both methods. 
There are dozens of times in any day 
afield when human intelligence is worth 
more than a highly developed canine 
nose, but that nose is still essential to 
the full enjoyment of the sport. The 
dogless shooter must be very familiar 
with the ground; he must know birds, 
and on top of all this he must be a 
mighty fine shot if he is to be success- 
ful, 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
HE recent heavy importations of 
spaniels from England is a sig- 
nificant index of value in determining 
the trend of canine affairs in the field. 
These clever little beasts are quite ideal 
companions for the hunter who likes 
to supplement the work of his dog with 
all the help that his own intelligence 
will afford. The field spaniels are 
small, active, and courageous; they are 
keen hunters with good noses, and they 
can be kept at heel without offense to 
their pride when the shooter thinks it 
expedient to take the game into his 
own hands and find and flush a bird 
himself. Such a dog can be kept in 
when strategy demands it, and ‘sent 
in” when the tangle is too thick for the 
man to penetrate. They are handy re- 
trievers and most of them can be 
taught to retrieve from land or water 
with equal courage. 
[2 is an indication of high moral char- 
acter when the sportsman is willing 
to devote time, work and wit to the 
recovery of wounded game, and it is 
an infallible mark of selfishness, care- 
lessness and cruel insensibility if he 
neglects these things. Occasionally one 
falls in with a man who forges along 
through the woods firing at every bird 
that rises without regard to range as 
related to the possibility of a clean kill, 
and with no regard at all for crippled 
game. If he manages a clean kill, well 
and good, but a wing-tipped bird which 
slips down into an alder swamp, sev- 
enty-five yards out, gets nothing more 
than a curse while the hunter tears 
along for fresh victims. I have known 
a few men who would not spend five 
minutes of their time in trying to find 
a bird known to be wounded, nor would 
their impatience allow their dogs to ex- 
ercise more than a hasty, ineffectual 
search. A good sportsman will thresh 
an acre of ground, yard by yard, in 
an effort to gather a cripple, and not 
until the case becomes impossible will 
he quit. Moreover, with such a. man, 
the recollection of the unfortunate in- 
cident will shade his enjoyment for the 
rest of the day and be a barb in his 
conscience for months to come. To men 
of this stamp, and, thank Heaven, their 
ranks are increasing, the assistance of 
a good dog appeals as a humane essen- 
tial and a contributing influence to a 
conscience sans reproach. Yes; for 
many reasons we must have the dog. 
(Concluded in November) 

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