154 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



London and in every country town ; and 

 I can undertake to assure my readers 

 that they will find it cheaper in the end 

 to submit to the expense of having their 

 dogs tutored secundum art em by an expe- 

 rienced hand. Notwithstanding my 

 predilection for the setter, I would re- 

 commend the neophyte to take the field 

 with a stanch old pointer. 



However strange it may appear, he 

 must submit to be instructed by his dog ; 

 but it must be a good one ; for it would 

 be next to cruelty both to the man and 

 to the beast — but particularly the latter — 

 to entrust a young, high-couraged, hot- 

 headed, self-willed dog to a beginner. 



The setter, however, is a noble animal, 

 both in disposition and appearance ; he 

 is endowed with more sagacity than the 

 pointer, and in point of courage and speed 

 all the w^orld knows he is immeasurably 

 superior. Where the breed is very choice. 



