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well, where he greedily drank several pints of water, adminis- 

 tered to him with caution. 



" He recovered almost immediately, gave me a look of thanks, 

 and was off to the fields in a few moments, where he soon found 

 a fine covey of birds. 



" The Pointer, his associate in the day's work, and a much 

 less hardy dog, stood the hunt remarkably well, and seemed to 

 suffer little or no inconvenience from the want of water. The 

 Setter has natural claims upon the sportsman and man gene- 

 rally, in his affectionate disposition, and attachment to his mas- 

 ter, and the many winning manners he exhibits towards those 

 by whom he is caressed. 



" The Pointer displays but little fondness for those by whom 

 he is surrounded, and hunts equally as well for a stranger as his 

 master." 



In this testimony in behalf of the Setter, on the part of an 

 American gentleman, of scientific, no less than sportsmanlike 

 attainments, I shall add the following quotation from " Craven's 

 Recreations in Shooting," a very clever English work — in which, 

 by the way, I find myself quoted, without credit, as an American 

 sportsman, concerning our field sports — in which the question is 

 fully debated, and the excellence of the Russian Setter upheld 

 by competent authority. 



" Having now disposed," says Craven, " of that which by a 

 slight license, may be termed the poetry of shooting, before en- 

 tering upon its mere household stuff, allusion comes in aptly to 

 its intellectual agents. Although as a principle, we have re- 

 commended the use of the Pointer in especial to the young dis- 

 ciple of the trigger, the first place, among shooting dogs, must 

 be awarded to the Setter. Tn style and dash of ranging, in 

 courage, and capacity of covering ground ; in beauty of form, 

 and grace of attitude ; in variety of color, and elegance of cloth- 

 ing, no animal of his species will at all bear comparison with 

 him. As the respective merits of the Pointer and the Setter, 

 however, have long been a mooted question among sportsmen, 



