This vintage book contains a complete guide to training a dog for hunting birds, with chapters on selection and breeding, breaking, psychology, equipment, and much more. Interspersed with personal anecdotes, this highly-readable handbook will appeal to modern hunters, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "First Days in the Field," "Getting on Game," "Gun-Shyness and Retrieving," "Hunting Quail and Pheasants," "A Successful Pheasant Hunt," "Wonderful Work," "Steadying to Shot and Wing," "A Little Canine Psychology,"...