Spook

To Southern sportsmen, a bird dog is a pointer or a setter; the quarry is partridge. Henderson, an editor and contributor for Pointing Dog Journal, reminisces here about more than half a century of hunting in South Carolina and Georgia. He gives a brief history of the breeds and describes a good bird dog-it must be adaptable to big fields and thick swamps and should be mostly white, with a high tail. His favorites-Spock, Polly, Kate, Mack-were intelligent, loving companions, but they were not house pets. Henderson's engaging anecdotes will have greater appeal to bird hunters than to nonhunting pet lovers. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Aug.)