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...Whoa" & "Woof." Last week, busily at work with his year-old pointers, Morton explained the art and science of training dogs to hunt birds. "A dog has to learn to scent the body of the bird, not his track," said Morton, "or else he'll be pointing at where the bird was instead of where he is. If a breeze is blowing toward him, a good dog can pick up the scent of a bird 100 yards away...
...teach a dog how to point, first you get him to stop when you say 'whoa.' A good dog will stop in mid-air when you say that and come down motionless. Then you watch for the little 'woof' a bird dog gives when he smells game. Every time he says 'woof' you say 'whoa.' Finally you teach him to hold the point. He'll hold it for half an hour or longer...
...party went on merrily until suddenly the dancers heard a horse stomping outside, and a voice shouting "Whoa!" Three knocks came on the door, and in swept a bearded young man with glowing black eyes. He was turned out in marten hat, beaver coat, and moccasins embroidered with porcupine quills and spangled with pearls of all colors. Bowing, he removed coat and hat with a flourish, but kept on his black kid gloves. To the pretty daughter of the house, vivacious Blanche, he bowed and said: "Mademoiselle, you are invited...
...Whoa. Contrary to popular belief, sled dogs, which are not necessarily pure-bred Siberian Huskies, are docile, though a team often gets some ankle nipping from the team it is passing. Once in front, the lead team tends to set a slower pace, but a passed team, in a frenzy of competitive spirit, redoubles its efforts to take the lead. The driver's commands are simple and horsy: "Gee" for right, "Haw" for left, "Whoa" (more hopefully than convincingly) for stop. A steel-toothed prong, controlled by a foot pedal, digs into the snow to make the "Whoa" stick...
...reservists and guardsmen angrily complained that they were being i) passed by on promotion lists, 2) asked to quit their outfits (just about impossible) or start breaking in replacements. In Dalton, Ga., a young National Guard corporal had just been offered a better job. He inadvertently mentioned the Guard. "Whoa, just a moment," snapped the interviewer, and called off the deal. In Atlanta, a sergeant in the Air Force Reserve hunted fruitlessly for weeks before he found a job chopping wood to feed his wife & child...