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hapj^y (Icliglit. Pleased as I may ho with Iier 



gifted behaviour in finding the hird, I add to 



tliat sensation an expression of liappiness similar 



to hers, in order to teach lier that I reciprocate 



her feelings to their fullest extent. 



To l3ring a retriever out, led by a keeper in 



a leash, to find the stricken-down birds dead or 



crijij^led, is inflicting a jealous agony on the 



setters or pointers who have taken the trouble to 



And and bring the gun up to the game. Setters 



will more often bring the game tlian pointers ; 



but if a pointer is pro2)erly l^roken, and then 



sensibly and encouragingly used, he needs no 



other retriever than himself. He will trace or 



foot a running bird, and catch him, or he will 



find a dead bird ; and all that man has then to do 



is. to pick the bird up and put him in the bag. 



It is the lamentable fashion to call any dog 



with a rough coat, and who will fetch a stick out 



of the water, a retriever. 



A retriever, |)c^/' sr, is not wanted with setters 



or pointers properly broken and continuously and 



carefully used, for it is, it can bo, and it ouglit to 



be, their diitij to find anything that is down to 



the gun on which tlie}^ are attending, and it is 

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