THE POINTER 



THIS dog, which it may be admitted, whatever its intrin- 

 sic or comparative merits, is the most suitable, for many 

 reasons, to the use of the young sportsman, is not, at least 

 in its present form, an original or natural animal. 



This is the more worthy of remark, because many 

 modern writers, those more particularly who are opposed 

 to the setter, have endeavored to discredit the latter by 

 overlauding its rival, as if the pointer were the type, and 

 the setter an offshoot produced from it, by some process 

 of crossing. 



So far, however, is this from being true, that the 

 pointer is itself a manufactured subvariety, although now 

 so well established, that it appears capable of reproduction, 

 like for like, even to the peculiar characteristics of indi- 



