518 MODERN FARRIEll. 



47. The Setter 



This species of pointer has attained a considerable 

 degree of estimation and celebrity. The setting-dog 

 is remarkably hardy, active and handsome. Its 

 scent is exquisite, and it ranges with great speed 

 and wonderful perseverance. Its sagacity in disco- 

 vering the different kinds of game, and its caution in 

 approaching them are truly astonishing. Its feet 

 are much better defended against the sharp cutting 

 of the heath than those of the pointer, by the quan- 

 tity of hair growing betAveen the toes and round 

 the ball of the foot, of which the pointer is nearly 

 destitute. 



Though the setting-dog is in general used for the 

 purpose of taking partridges with a diawMiet, yet 

 they are occasionally employed with the gun, and 

 ai'e equally applicable to that appropriation, except 

 in turnips, standing clover, French wheat, furze, 

 ling, or other covert, where their sudden drop and 

 point may not be so readily observed. 



48. Hie Sp?inger. 



The true English springer differs but little in 

 figure from the setter, except in size ; varying only 

 in a small degree, if any, from a red, yelloM' or liver 

 colour, or wdiite, which seems to be the invariable 

 external standard of this breed ; and being nearly 

 two fifths less in height and strength than the setter, 

 delicately formed, ears long, soft, and pliable, coat 

 waving and silky, eyes and nose red or black, the 

 tail somewhat bushy and pendulous, and always in 

 motion when actively employed. 



The cocker, though of the same race, is smaller 

 than the springer. It has also a shorter and more 

 compact form, a rounder head, shorter nose, ears ' 

 long (and the longer the more admired), the limbs 

 short and strong, the coat more inclined to curl than 

 the springer's, and longer, particularly on the tail. 



