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double-nosed Spanish pointers, which are slow but sure in finding game. 

 I may boast of having had some excellent dogs of these various breeds. 

 One of the short-tailed breed I sold to a friend for fifty pounds. His name 

 was Pluto; he was liver coloured and particularly well made, had a fine 

 nose and was as steady as time. When we drove a covey into a clover, 

 potato or turnip field, the other dogs were taken up and great havoc was 

 generally made amongst the birds by Pluto's dexterous skill in finding the 

 single birds. Some gentlemen shoot with pointers in cover, but I prefer 

 a brace or two of well-broke spaniels, with a retriever. A friend of mine, an 

 old sportsman, always shot in woods with pointers with bells of different 

 tones on their necks, by which he was able to ascertain which of his dogs 

 stood. He was a first-rate shot, and by this mode bagged a great deal of 

 game. Although I generally shot in cover with spaniels, yet when the 

 pheasants were to be found in turnip fields, hedgerows and very low cover, I 

 took with me a brace of pointers." When Colonel Hamilton began shooting 

 the pointer was the gun dog except for the moors or partridges, and he 

 seems to have been conservative in sticking to the breed, although he 

 acknowledges that he once had a dropper that seems to have been about 

 the best dog he ever owned. 



Daniel Lambert, when he went to London in 1806 to exhibit himself, 

 took some sporting dogs which were sold at Tattersalls. Lambert after- 

 ward had a special strain of black pointers, and at his death in 1840 six 

 and a half brace were sold at auction for 256 guineas. At the sale we are 

 now referring to there were ^even setters and two pointers. The two 

 pointer bitches were sold to Lord Kinnaird for twenty-two and twelve 

 guineas, and Mr. C. Mellish bought all the setters, the colour of only 

 one of which we know — the black bitch Peg, lot i — the total for the setters 

 being 186 guineas. Lambert had an excellent lot of terriers also, but we 

 have no description of what they were. 



The Duke of Kingston's black pointers were well known at that time, 

 but were mentioned more particularly because they were all black. The 

 Earl of Lauderdale, a Scottish nobleman, fancied a diminutive breed of 

 pointers, and they were in several other hands in the Edinburgh district. 

 Captain Brown in his "Anecdotes" describes one belonging to C. G. 

 Stewart Menteith, of Closeburn, as follows: "His length from the point of 

 the nose to the tip of the tail is only two feet and half an inch; from the 

 one fore foot to the other, across the shoulders, two feet; length of head 



