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move much for him to smell them, and so he gets into many likely 

 places that the high-headed dog passes. Under most conditions of time 

 and place, he is the dog for the amateur who goes out but once or twice 

 a year to kill game over. 



Very few dogs make a point alike. The reason probably is that 

 they do not catch the scent the same way, and so the points are not 

 quite the same. In the same way the dogs' tails move differently. 

 There is a certain movement which the tail must make before it can 

 stiffen out, and the direction of the scent seems to determine the posi- 

 tion of the tail. 



We know dogs' tails are a guide to them. To prove this, watch 

 a dog while swimming and see if he does not use his tail to guide him. 

 If a dog that cannot swim be put in shallow water, he will only splash 

 with his front feet, but take him into deep water, put one hand under 

 his breast and with the other hold his tail out of the water, then 

 give him a little push with the hand on the breast and let go of the 

 tail at the same time, and you will see him start swimming with a 

 moving tail. The moving of the front feet and the tail floats him 

 and the tail acts as a guide. 



Many men, even writers of books, think that a pointer is an easier 

 dog to train and care for than a setter. To one who knows how, it is 



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