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DOMESTICATED DOGS FOR THE GUN. 



nected witli sporting is first rate. Then, for the first time for 

 many years, I had my dogs, English setters, beaten hollow. His 

 breed was from pure Russian setters, crossed by an English setter 

 dog, which some years ago made a sensation in the sporting world, 

 from his extraordinary performances : he belonged to the late 





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L.WELLS, 



A Russiau Setter .slightly crossLd with English hloud. 



Joseph Manton, and had been sold for a hundred guineas. Al- 

 though I could not but remark the excellence of my friend's dogs, 

 yet it struck me, as I had shot over my own old favourite setter 

 (who had himself beat many good ones, and had never before been 

 beaten) for eight years, that his nose could not have been right, for 

 the Russians got three points to his one. I therefore resolved to 

 try some others against them the next season ; and having heard a 



