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loin, or thick club tail, which are equally characteristic of 

 the breed. 



So well established is this creed in my part of the 

 country, that a neighbor of mine told me the other day, 

 with great glee and exultation, that he had got a double- 

 nosed setter, the only one of that kind he had ever seen, 

 though he had seen many pointers such. 



He was urgent to know whether I had ever seen a 

 double-nosed setter, and was not a little astonished when I 

 replied that I never had, and sincerely hoped I never 

 should ; for that, while in a pointer it is simply a deform- 

 ity, of no actual consequence, in a setter it is a certain 

 indication of a cross of Spanish pointer blood ; about the 

 worst cross imaginable. 



It may be added, that the Spanish pointer is not 

 unfrequently ill-tempered and surly. 



Of the action of pointers in the field, whereby to judge 

 of them, I shall speak hereafter, under the head of Field 

 Management. 



