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CHAPTER V. 



DOGS. 



There is no point more discussed and differed 

 about by snipe-shooters than the vexed ques- 

 tion of dogs. Will a pointer or a setter 

 find you more snipe than you would find 

 without him ? As is usually the case in 

 these sort of arguments, it is a mistake to 

 lay down a hard-and-fast rule. Snipe-shooting 

 is the most inexact of sporting sciences, and 

 this dog or no dog question is one that can 

 be answered with less finality than any in 

 connection with it. It depends upon so 

 many things : the wind, whether a good or 

 bad scenting one, and the angle at which 

 it blows across your beat ; the weather, and 

 its effect on the ground ; the constantly 

 varying humour of the snipe ; the general 



