YANGTZE NOTES.— CHINKIANO. 



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or a cross between a pointer and setter are, if good, undoubtedly very useful. These 

 half-trained animals do not trouble to point, but run into the birds as hard as they 

 can, and they have indeed to be very smart if the pheasants are to be forced out of their 

 strongholds — the reed-beds — for the reeds here grow 20 feet high, are as thick as one's 

 finger and dense as a jungle ; to go into them is hopeless and useless. Put in the 

 dogs at one end then rush as fast possible to the other and await events. 



A great advantage of pointers is their short coats, from which the grass-seeds can 

 easily be removed. 



