WILD-FOWL SHOOTING. Ft 
would excel in field sports, is the power of self-re- 
straint. ‘To ask an animal, trembling all over with 
delirious excitement, to lie down and remain per- 
fectly motionless during those most trymg moments 
when the ducks are approaching and being killed, 
is to demand of him a self-control greater than 
would be often found in his master. Yet upon this 
quality in the dog depends the entire question of 
his value or worthlessness ; if he makes the slightest 
motion, the quick eyes of the birds are sure to dis- 
cern it; and if he bounces up at the first discharge, 
he will certainly destroy his master’s chance of 
using his second barrel, and perhaps upset ium over 
the as of the boat. 
It is to avoid the sharp eyes of the ducks that a 
black color for the dog has been condemned. Amid 
the yellow and brown reeds of the marshes, or upon 
the reflective surface of the open water, black, from 
its capacity for absorbing the rays of light, is visible 
at an immense distance. Yellow, brown, or grey 
are the best shades; and any color is preferable to 
black. Red is selected by the Southerners for their 
tolling dogs, but this is with the purpose of making 
them attractive. 
Many persons conceive that a dark coat is warmer 
for an animal than white, an idea that is carried into 
practice in the ordinary winter dress of human be- 
ings; but it is refuted not only by the simplest prin- 
ciples of science, but by the natural covering of the 
tnimals that inhabit the cold climes of the north. The 
polar bear is clothed in white, while the southern bear 
