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put up birds by the score. Whenever therefore the writer went into 

 a field down wind, he always took him up till he got the full breeze 

 in his face. This was done for a few days, and the dog improved 

 very much. One afternoon, having to beat a very long, narrow 

 piece of roots, the writer would not take the trouble of going to the 

 end, but went in down wind and let the dog go. He immediately 

 went to the hedge and along it to the top of the field, and then 

 beat it in perfect form back up wind, and after that he never 

 failed to do the same thing. 



As showing what extraordinary noses some of these Llewellins 

 have, here are two instances of two different dogs, both on 

 grouse. The first was a puppy in his first season, a tremendous 

 galloper and carrying a very high head. The writer was beating a 

 gently sloping open moor, on the left were three or four large hillocks, 

 and on these and their surroundings the heather had been burned. 

 The dog was ranging well ahead of the gun and taking quarters of 

 about half a mile in length, when suddenly throwing up his head 

 higher than one would have thought any dog could get it, he raced 

 to the top of one of these bare hillocks and there stood like a tower. 

 In front of him there was bare, burnt ground for at least a hundred 

 yards. " Hare gone away, sur," said the keeper. " Hare be 

 blowed ! " was the writer's reply. Walking up to the dog, he drew 

 him on and'on and on, no tracks or signs of grouse being visible. 

 Now he becomes perfectly rigid, and up gets a covey of about 

 thirty under his nose. The keeper stepped the distance to where 

 the dog first stood on the hillock, and it was 4oiyds. The birds, 

 of course, might have run, but they certainly did not run those first 

 hundred yards of bare ground, and the rest was very thick heather. 



The second instance was also with a young dog, who had been 

 well shot over for the first month on a Scotch moor. Grouse were 

 now few and wild, and the writer wanted to get some photos of two 

 of the dogs on point. A gun was carried just to encourage them. 

 By-and-by one of them comes to a fine point, and (we had had a 

 very long walk to get it) he was photographed in due form. Now, 

 it was rather a mean thing to do, but we wanted to save time, so 

 a lead was put on the pointing dog, and the other behind him was 

 enlarged. This also was a particularly good-nosed dog. He 

 galloped on into the wind and never made a sign; after giving him 

 several casts, he was taken up and the first again enlarged. Once 

 more he at once made the point, and putting a handkerchief down 

 to mark the place, the writer drew him on for io3yds., where lay a 

 grouse stone dead and nearly cold that had been killed by a hawk. 



There are some Setters, too, that have the extraordinary faculty 

 of going up to game in a field without beating any other part of 

 the said field. The most remarkable instance of this seen by the 

 writer was as follows : We had been shooting a wild manor where 



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