170 Seventy Years a Master. 



when nothing got up. I looked, and I could 

 see nothing in them. '' Fetch it," I said to 

 him. In he jumped, and out hopped a big 

 frog, and then I am afraid that, had the 

 parson been there I should have shocked him. 



What occurred to the silly d ? I gave him 



such a kick that he bolted across that field, 

 jumped the gate, and disappeared. I troubled 

 no more about him, and probably somebody 

 had another '' good bargain " with him ; at 

 any rate I never saw him again. 



Pointers are never considered complete in 

 training unless they are perfectly staunch to 

 bird, dog and gun ; which implies : first, 

 standing singly to a bird, or covey, secondly to 

 backing or pointing the moment he perceives 

 another dog to stand at game, and thirdly, not 

 to stir from his own point at the rising of any 

 bird or the firing of any gun in the field, pro- 

 viding the game is neither sprung nor started 

 at which he originally pointed. 



I think my dog Eocket was as near per- 

 fection in these respects as you could possibly 

 get a pointer. He was also a nice colour, and 



