2d^ FACT AGAINST FlCTlOX. 



haunt of game, nor did they make the best use 

 of their wondrous powers of scent, for their eyes, 

 their legs, and their ears were all their breaker 

 seemed to require, and their mind had no chance 

 left to direct tlie^use of the nose. 



I regret to say that the custom of shooting to 

 dogs has become obsolete, so much so, that in 

 the spring of 1872 I could not find a breaker 

 to whom in confidence I could entrust a beautiful 

 young setter bitch. 



There is no sort of dog, thoroughbred or 

 ]nongrel, that has not a more or less good nose, 

 and the will within him to make use of it after 

 game, if the knowledge of his own possessions is 

 inculcated into his head and brought out by being 

 called into use. Thus I have taught a beautiful 

 little Italian greyhound, Brenda, to leave the warmth 

 of the rug and the fire, the soft cushions of her 

 lady's sofa, and to hunt rabbits to my gun out of 

 thick furze by the seaside. I have taught tlie 

 best bred greyhounds for hare. My darling 

 Brenda was one of them ; lier public trophies 

 deck my sideboard now. And I have done the 

 same by my deer greyhounds, to hunt for game, 

 to retrieve game, and to work for wikl fowl on 



