Cody, though, hammed it up with his handler, Pat Hawn, 44, of Malvern, playing with his bright green tennis ball outside the Levittown-Fairless Hills Rescue Squad Falls Substation on Makefield Road, which had been the command post during the search. Hawn and Cody, members of the Palisades Search & Rescue Dog Association, were among three search-and-rescue groups responding to the hunt. The others were the Wilderness Emergency Strike Team of Lancaster and the West Jersey Search & Rescue Team of Stanton, N.J. Overall, about 200 people, including police, firefighters, volunteers and the search-and-rescue teams, spent the overnight hours looking for Byrd, a retired employee of a commercial printing firm. One of the Philadelphia Police Department's helicopters was among the equipment used. Falls Police Chief Arnie Conoline ordered the all-out effort shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday, after an initial check of the Hedgerow Woods area where Byrd's daughter lives failed to locate Byrd. Cody found Byrd sitting in a field of high grass just outside a wooded area off Stony Hill Road in Lower Makefield, about 1.3 miles from where he disappeared. ``He had his shoes off and his socks rolled up. He was just sitting there,'' said Hawn, who has been involved in search-and-rescue work for six years. The recovery is Cody's 10th - the first live recovery, however. ``All too often we get called too late . . . after too much time has elapsed,'' Hawn said, crediting police for contacting the search teams by midnight. Of Cody, Hawn said: ``He's very persistent. We were ready to pull out of the area after our second try. But he just kept going.'' After visiting her father in the hospital yesterday, Byrd's daughter, Mary Jane Augustin, expressed gratitude for the all-out effort of the searchers. ``Their response and volunteerism was tremendous,'' she said. Byrd has been living with the Augustins for two weeks because of repairs on his son's Downingtown home, where he regularly lives, his daughter said. Augustin said she had dozed in the early evening after watching the Eagles game. About 7:30 p.m., she said, a neighbor stopped by and inquired about her father. Augustin said she thought he was upstairs but checked and found he was not. Augustin said her father had been ``a little forgetful'' recently, although he never has wandered off before. ``He walks every day, but never at night,'' Augustin said. ``But we decided to check the block ourselves before calling police.'' When Byrd was not found by 9 p.m., however, Augustin said she called her son, Thomas, a Lower Makefield police officer, who notified Falls Township police. The Sixers,