Well, it doesn’t cost much to give advice, but it isn’t always so easy to take it.
What is the question in mind?
Have been slighted and abused, have you? Tell us about it.
Scolded you after you hunted birds all day for him, and then forgot to give you any supper. That was pretty hard; pretty mean treatment, I should say.
Had your master been drinking?
No? How came it about?
“Why, just before time to start for home I found a big flock of quail, and showed him just where they were; and he crept up, gun in hand, and tried to fire, but for some reason the gun did not go off.
“That put him out of humor, and he scolded the gun, and by that frightened the birds so they flew away.
“Then he sent me to find them, and I could get no snuff of them, hunt as hard as I could. Then he spoke to me as he never did before, and throwing the gun upon his shoulder started for the house, never noticing me by any word, whistle or sign.
“Well, I dropped my tail between my legs, and followed at a good distance.