TABLE OF CONTENTS. IX 



shot. With shot. At small birds. To judge of errors. Allowance for mo- 

 tion. Why necessary. How to acquire the trick. Practice for flying shots. 

 For running shots. Physical disabilities. To learn rifle shooting. Disper- 

 sion of a shot-charge. Directness of a ball. Necessity of perfect aim. 

 Steadiness. How to take aim; rest-firing bad practice. Kifle clubs. Al- 

 lowance for motion of objects. How to allow. For a cross wind long 

 ranges. Rifle shooting and shooting flying nearly incompatible ; why so ; 

 shooting, riding, and to speak truth, must be learned young . 128-153 



THE DOG. 



His use and qualities ; kind usage of; cruelty to, exploded. House-dogs not 

 good field-dogs; why. Intelligence; how cultivated. Punishment; when, 

 and how, needed ; in breaking; when broken; the whip how to be used, 

 kicking dogs an infamy. Old dogs, when to be flogged ; when to be rated. 

 Dinks and Mayhew. Food and condition. Various breeds of sporting dogs. 

 Sporting authorities Hutchinson, Scrope, Colquhoun, Hawker. English- 

 broke dogs. English -bred dogs. Russian setters . . . 154^164 



THE SETTER.- 



His excellences, style, beauty, and courage. His temper. Compared with the 

 pointer. Craven's opinion. My own opinion. In summer shooting; 

 autumn shooting. Grouse shooting on the hills ; on the prairies. Absurd 

 plan for breeding setters. Pointing, formerly an acquired trick, now an in- 

 stinct. Backing the same. What is a setter ? Classification of dogs. The 

 spaniel; various breeds of the Clumber the King Charles the New- 

 foundland. First mention of setters. First breaking of spaniels to set. 

 Setters, till of late, called spaniels. The English setter ; his points, his 

 qualities, his beauty. The Irish setter ; his points, his color, his nose, his 

 temper. The Russian setter ; his points, his docility, his endurance, his 

 color. Rare in America. " Old Charon." Style and point of Russians. 

 Range of setters. American dog-breakers an error. Beating and quarter- 

 ing. Duration of a dog. Dog poisoning in Jersey. Denks on the dog. 

 Pointing vs. setting. Color of English Setters. The Webster setters. The 

 Harewood setters 165-187 



THE POINTER. 



Not a natural dog. Original type of. The Spanish pointer. The improved 

 English pointer. Two varieties. Best form. Excellences of. " Defects 

 of. Best for young sportsmen. Stonehenge. Points of pointers. Col- 

 ors of pointers. French pointers. Double-nosed pointers. Temper of 

 pointers 188-197 



THE COCKING-SPANIEL. 



Best for woodcock. Preferable for covert-shooting to pointers or setters. Why 

 so. For quail shooting. Difficulty of breaking cockers. Little used in Amer- 

 ica. The Carrollton breed. The cocker. The springer. The Clumber. 

 Their points, colors, and qualities ; strongly recommended . 198-208 



