The setter first came to Jack Barlow's had once been so common in North Ameri door soon after he moved into the little vil ca. But they'd been gone from the carth for lage. Barlow wondered if the dog would be years. any good on grouse Who owns the big set strange world. Somehow he must have gone Fear seized Barlow. He was alone in a ter?" he asked Gibney, the hotel manager 2 Gibney said "and nobody back in time perhaps even to the days Nobody ever will. But if I were you, I'd leave it before white men settled in North America alone." His answer puzzled Barlow He started to run madly, fighting his way A few days later the dog was back Barlow took it for a walk in the woods. It through fallen timber. When he stopped at last to catch his breath. he saw the second growth timber round him once again. There quartered back and forth like an expert 0 The next day the grouse season opened were no more of the great ancient trees and As Barlow ate his breakfast, he made several no more pigeons. He sobbed with relief trips to the door to see if the dog had come. By evening Barlow was calmer. He There was no sign of it. At last Barlow got cleaned the six grouse he had shot that morning. Then he walked to the hotel to into his jeep and drove off alone. He hunted find Gibney I guess you did it," Gibney all day and didn't see one grouse said Yes," said Barlow Maybe now you But the next morning the setter was sitting on his porch. It followed him to the In the woods the setter led Barlow across can tell me what it was all about jeep and they drove off together It's quite a story Gibney said. "You that dog once belonged to a grouse stream, Then suddenly the dog disap- peared. Barlow stopped to listen for it. A hunter named Michaels. One day the dog displeased Michaels n some way. So he cloud covered the sun. A cold wind sprang killed the beast. Later Michaels himself died up. Thunder rolled. Then all at once the sun came out again and the wind fell. Barlow Then the dog begin to be seen again. It looked about him. The trees were huge would wait for grouse hunters. It would towering. He seemed to be in an area where show them how good it was. And then it the trees had never been cut down. But how would take them back many years in time could that be? All the timber in that region for the best hunt of their lives. But after that it would never have anything to do with had been thoroughly cut more than fifty the dog. When he looked for it again, the 13 them again." years ago. In his shock Barlow forgot about "Never!" Barlow asked. He was thinking of the big flocks of grouse, the great trees setter was pointing Barlow moved in. A grouse new up. He wanted to go back to that place No said Gibney, "you can coax it all Another followed. Barlow shot it. Then you want. But that dog or whatever it is twelve more birds flew up Barlow couldn't believe his eyes. No one will never come near you again." had seen fourteen grouse together in that area for years. A queer feeling of unreality took hold of him The rest of the morning was the same 10 The setter found grouse everywhere About noon Barlow heard the beating of many wings above him. He looked up to a great flock of birds passing between him and the sun. Barlow suddenly recognized pigeons. He had read them as passenger about the flocks of passenger pigeons that