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and cold weather as need be. They have had 

 plenty of both in my service, and 1 know the 

 fact. 



Another thing is that a timid dog is a rare 

 exception among these cross-bred dogs. A timid 

 dog gives immense trouble to breakers, and is, 

 .to my thinking, little better than a nuisance. A 

 man must have great patience and forbearance 

 to make much of timid dogs. If he corrects 

 their faults, they are cowed at once, and slink 

 behind his heels. The cross-bred dog, bold, high- 

 headed, and eager, will run riot at first, but 

 they can be educated and made to understand 

 and perform their duties. They will stand punish- 

 ment, and, in fact, cannot be broken without it ; 

 but when they are once well broken, they never 

 forget what they have been taught to do or what to 

 refrain from doing. As before remarked, I prefer 

 those which follow the pointer in shape and coat, 

 but I have had some which took after the setter, 

 and were as nearly perfect as dogs could be. I 

 think the best dog I ever had was one of these ; 

 at any rate she was esteemed by me as worth 

 her weight in gold. 



Fanny was the produce of a pure-bred lemon 

 and white setter-bitch, and a pure-bred liver- 



