THE ENGLISH SETTER 



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afterwards. The reason was, simply, they quite understood what 

 they had done wrong, and had no desire, that they were unable to 

 restrain, to displease their master by repeating the offence. 



There is plenty of rule-of-thumb dog-breaking done with a thick 

 whip and a loud voice; but this sort of breaking ruins far more dogs 

 than it renders useful. There is no science in the world which re- 

 quires more intellect, judgment, and discrimination than the real 

 education of sporting dogs. 



FIG. 58. MR. PURCELL LLEWELLIN'S ENGLISH SETTKR DAN. 



It is hard to prophesy as to the future of the Setter, but the writer 

 must confess that he has great misgivings. As long as Setter men 

 are divided, as now, into two classes the show-bench men, who are 

 content with a certain beauty of form which attracts the judge, but 

 which in many respects is inconsistent with field work, and the 

 field-trial man, who does not care if his dog is as ugly as a pig as 

 long as it can win it is a bad look-out. There are several very large 

 field-trial kennels in England at the present time, but their owners, 



