THE AMERICAN GORDON SETTER. 



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and America; and the blood of the dogs mentioned in it is 

 distributed from Maine to California. Whip's descendants 

 are owned by gentlemen who keep them to shoot over; and 

 some who have cared to exhibit them at bench shows have 

 won with them. Some in the pedigree have been winners 

 at field trials abroad. The Gordon Setter Gordon won 

 second at a field trial in America, and was justly entitled to 



GORDON SETTER BOB. 

 Owned by Mr. A. H. Moore, Philadelphia, Penn. 



first. Ere long, when their owners make up their minds to 

 run them in public field trials, you will see them go to the 

 front with ease. I never have shown or run one at a public 

 trial, but have hunted them in private, in the best of 

 company, with Setters of other strains, and have never 

 seen them beaten. Nor do I believe the Setter or Pointer 

 lives that can work with them, in all kinds of cover and over 

 all kinds of ground, and defeat them in a long hunt. 



