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Those which remain worthy of note, are the retriever 

 proper, which fetches in the dead or crippled game, having 

 had no share in finding him, and the various species of 

 hounds, which are employed in the finding, taking, and 

 killing of large game such as deer, elk, bear, and, perhaps, 

 one or two casual species, not often encountered even in 

 the wildest parts of the country, and which may be held 

 to belong to hunting, as distinct from shooting, in the 

 proper sense of the terms ; though, as I have observed 

 before, the distinction is much narrowed in America 

 between the two sports, owing to the association of the 

 shot gun or rifle with the horse and hound. 



In America the retriever proper is used only in one 

 part of the country, the vicinity of Chesapeake Bay and 

 the rivers of that region, which constitute the shooting 

 grounds of the canvas-back. 



In the British isles pointers and setters are not usually 

 broke to fetch^ as it is supposed to detract from their 

 steadiness, and render them likely to break in. For the 

 moors, therefore, and for pheasant-shooting in covert, re- 

 trievers are employed, especially broken to the purpose, 

 which take no notice of live game, make no effort to hunt 

 or flush it, but, so soon as it falls and notice is given to 

 them to go on and find will follow the foot of the identi- 

 cal wounded or wing-broken bird, through a preserve 

 overflowing with unwounded game of the same species, 

 without troubling or disturbing any of them; and will 

 ultimately recover and bring him to bag, while the 

 sportsman is in pursuit of other victims, far away with his 

 pointers or his beaters. 

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