Making a clean sweep
Oct 17, 2019
3 minutes
WHEN I first started picking up, I treated with deference the experienced old hands with their teams of labradors. I had just a single and rather wild springer spaniel that regarded the whole experience as wildly exciting. However, she was a determined and accomplished retriever, soft-mouthed and silent. She had a talent for marking wounded birds and once the drive was over and it was safe to let her go, she would be off like an Exocet missile, locking onto her quarry and not giving up until her mission was accomplished.
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