THE ENGLISH SETTER 



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servant : he is a devoted, a loving friend, who will go on till he 

 cannot stand, because he wants to find game, to please himself yes, 

 but far more to please you. Of course this is not by any means 

 the case with every Setter. One comes across many dogs of this 

 breed, some of them very first class both in the field trial as well 

 as in the shooting business, that care for nothing but the actual 

 hunting, that would go with any one who carried a gun, and do 

 not seemingly have any affection for any person living. Still, 

 exceptions prove a rule. 



FIG. 60. MR. PURCELL LLEWELLIN'S ENGLISH SETTER COUNTESS BEAR. 



A few instances of the sagacity of the Setter are here recorded, 

 though in some of the cases sagacity is far too low a term. 



When the writer was a boy of seventeen, living with a private 

 tutor, he was the proud possessor of a Pointer, and a fellow-pupil 

 of a Setter, which latter would always go with him in preference 

 to his master. One morning in September the writer started early, 

 about seven o'clock, to beat a rough, distant manor over which he 

 had the right of shooting, taking the Pointer with him. He had 

 to walk four miles along the road, and then began to beat straight 

 ahead. About noon he sat down on the top of a high hill 



