220 PRANK Schley's partridge and pheasant shootinq. 



whom — "Stonehenge" — bears the following testimony: 

 ■'Moreover, where there is not heather there are bogs, both 

 in Irish and Scotch moors, and on wet ground the Setter 

 is also better than the Pointer, as he is more enduring of 

 fatigue, cold and wet.'' 



I have heard of Pointers which had pluck enough to face 

 the thickest cover, and whose owners would back them 

 against any Setter; but such dogs have generally helonged 

 to gentlemen who could leave their business for only an 

 occasional day, and as their dogs performed well u])on such 

 occasions they deemed it conclusive evidence that they 

 would do well on all, when the real fact is that such lim- 

 ited tests really form no standard for just judgment. Any 

 man can satisfy himself on this point if he will but give the 

 matter a fair trial, not of an occasional day, but of three 

 month's honest, hard work. Let him start the dogs to- 

 gether on a prairie on the 1st of October and work East 

 to New P^ngland, and before the middle of December he 

 will be a convert to my opinion, if he is working his Poin- 

 ter against a Setter worthy of the name. 



Leaving the question of endurance, there is another 

 mooted point worthy of consideration, viz.: nose. This is 

 a more difficult matter to settle than the other, at least in 

 this country, where we have 3'et no extensive field trials 

 at which great numbers of both breeds can compete, so 

 that this quality can be tested sufficiently to make it a 

 trial of the race and not of a few individuals only. It 

 must therefore remain a matter of opinion, unless we are 

 willing to decide it by the expressed convictions of promi- 

 nent authorities. Turning again to Laverack, I find the 

 following words: "There is no doubt that good bred Set- 

 ters are quite as keen of nose as Pointers." Another wri- 

 ter — Dtiniel — in his Work on "liural Sports," says of Set- 

 ters : -Their noses are undoubtedly superior." I do not 

 claim the last, but agree more nearly with Laverack, and 

 think the nose equally good in both, so far as 1 can judge 

 tVom the specimens I have encountered. 



A<rain, the friends of the Pointer claim that he is easier 



