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different breeds. Needless to say. the introduction of English breeds 

 was no easy matter. In 1862 we showed at the first of the dog 

 shows the different breeds of pointer and setter. They were a great 

 success, and took all the first prizes ; and, as the competitions were 

 international, my dogs beat the pick of those sent over by English 

 owners. Experience was, however, necessary, and one had to use 

 these breeds in order thoroughly to understand their value and the 

 way in which they were to be adapted to French sport. The 

 Anglophobe also had to be combated— he who frothed at the mouth 

 when mention was made of English dogs, whose eyes started from 

 his head if anyone praised English guns in his presence, for the 

 Anglophobe always rages even at table when he would have it that 

 Medor, said to be of old and pure French blood, hunts his rabbit 

 like any basset and points his pheasant like a signpost. The Marquis 

 de Cherville, a well-known writer on matters of sport, has often 

 written that we were responsible for the popularising of English dogs 

 m France, and this assertion has been confirmed by other sporting 

 writers. It is an honour to have done such a service to our sporting 

 countrymen. 



Shooting over dogs, for all the scarcity of game now in the land, 

 IS essentially a French sport, and the advent of English dogs only 

 increased the taste for it. Widespread at the present day. it must be 

 confessed that they are still busy lessening the stock of game in the 

 common hunting-grounds, and that the time will come when, in some 

 parts of the country, protective measures encouraging its increase will 

 be needed if the want of game is not to render the dogs altogether 

 useless. 



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