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Of the intelligence of the dogs broken in by himself, 

 he gives the following instance : 



" I once had a pointer that would always go round 

 close to the hedges of a field before he would quarter his 

 ground : the dog was sensible that he most frequently 

 found his game in the course of this circuit, and there- 

 fore very naturally took the readiest road to discover it. 

 A setter to whom I had shot for three seasons once left 

 me when shooting in a country distant from home, and 

 returned to the inn which we had set out from that 

 morning. I had fired seven or eight times without 

 dropping a bird, and have no doubt but my want of 

 skill occasioned Sancho's distaste, for after riding back 

 to the inn, to which he had returned, and again taking 

 him into the field, he soon gave me an opportunity of 

 regaining his confidence, and for seventeen successive 

 shots not a bird was missed. A perfect reconciliation 

 was the consequence." 



But the most extraordinary incident in connection 

 with shooting which Daniel gives is the following 

 account of a pig which was trained to point. I give the 

 remarkable story in full : 



" Of this most extraordinary animal, will be here 

 stated a short history, to the veracity of which there 

 are hundreds of living witnesses. SLUT was bred in, and 

 was of that sort which maintain themselves in the New 

 Forest without regular feeding, except when they have 

 young, and then but for a few weeks, and was given 

 when but about three months old, to be a breeding sow> 

 by Mr. Thomas, to Mr. Richard Toomer, both at that 

 time keepers in the Forest. From having no young she 



