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should enjoy if we only made the attempt ! I should 

 much like to see him try the experiment for himself! 



Notwithstanding all the boasting talk of the real 

 sport to be enjoyed with the aid of dogs, I take it that 

 pointers and setters always were and always are used 

 in certain localities, not so much as an accessory to 

 the shooter's pleasure, but simply because in such 

 places the game could not be found and killed without 

 their aid. Dogs for pointing game are now discarded 

 generally in England, not through any lack of true 

 sporting propensity in our generation, but from their 

 presence in the field being a hindrance instead of an 

 assistance in filling the bag. 



It is not a question of the superior sport that 

 mlijlit be enjoyed with pointers for pheasant and 

 partridge shooting, because however superior and 

 fascinating such sport may be, it is one that cannot 

 n<w be practised with success in England. Anyhow, 

 if we have lost the breed and services of Ponto and 

 Dash, we have gained by the changed conditions of 

 affairs the assistance of our grand retrievers Jet and 

 Sweep ; gallant, and moreover companionable, friends 

 in the field. To watch a retriever find a woumM 

 bird, after a long and clever chase, is surely as 

 pleasant a sight to a sportsman as to see a pointer do 

 //is work. 



'Driving,' where practised, is not a mere matter 



