Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — A Good Bird Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Good Bird Dog.

Col. J. W. Barnett, in New Orleans, told a story of an unusually' fine bird dog that he once owned, the best dog, he said, that ever was in his possession. He had trained the dog with great care to know a bird by the feathers it dropped. Did n partridge drop a feather the dog would take the scent and find the bird’s retreat. One day the colonel hit a wild duck, but only knocked out a few wing feathers. The dog sniffed them and started away. After a little his master called him, but got no response, and at the end of an exhaustive search of the neighborhood went home, expecting the dog would come along later. But the dog didn’t come home until a week afterward, when one day he appeared, thin and bedraggled, just able to trot slowly along the road, but carrying a dead duck. The colonel had saved the wing feathers which he saw the dog last sniff, and, upon comparison, found thai they had belonged to the d,uck the faith ful brute brought home. Apparently the dog had followed the quarry unti he* found its roosting place anil nabbrf it asleep.—N. Y. Sun.