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called to it in tlie Field by the discussion 

 between W. C. and "Idstone," as to the point 

 of — in broad terms — breaking dogs to what 

 they are wanted for. I have always held 

 W. C.'s opinion. If you want a grouse dog, 

 break him on grouse ; a partridge dog, on par- 

 tridges ; a snipe dog, on snipe ; but I think you 

 want more than this. You must break a dog 

 according to the country you shoot in, for here 

 what is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the 

 gander. 



For the first year or two that I was at Aline, 

 F. M. — than whom no better sportsman and 

 shot at everything exists in Europe — used the 

 same team of dogs he had brought from the 

 south. They were an excellent lot of pointers, 

 very well bred, very handsome, and perfectly 

 broken. I had shot over them on the York- 

 shire moors, and in the border counties of 

 Scotland, and they were perfection. In the 

 Lews the whole lot were not worth five shillings. 

 They quartered their ground in the most scien- 

 tific manner ; but they might have quartered 

 it to all eternity and done no good. Their 

 range was not high enough; they were not 

 wild enough for ground on which there was 

 then but little to find, and the poor animals 

 gave up the thing in despair. F. M. soon 



