b Varieties oj the Dog. 



As his name implies, the setter crouches, sits, or sets his 

 game, a quahfication which is carefully estmiated by 

 experienced judges. If he stands at his game, the fault 

 is supposed to be denved from the pointer. 



The English setter is longer and more open in his frame 

 than the pointer, and has a proportionally longer stride in 

 all his paces. He is capable of harder work than that dog, 

 and as his toes are clothed with hair in the intervals between 

 them, he is not so liable to become "foot-sore," either from 

 very dry or veiy wet ground. In regard to nose, there is 

 much difference of opinion, but I am inclined to believe 

 that the setter has a slight advantage in this respect. 

 When well bred, the setter is as easily broken as the 

 pointer, to the point and back, but he is seldom quite as 

 tractable in regard to the other elements of his education, 

 and is, moreover, more apt to forget his lessons timn his 

 smooth c6mpetitor in the shooting-field. These remarks, 

 however, apply more to the setter of the early part of 

 this century than to the dog of the present day, which is 

 a great improvement upon his ancestors. 



The head is lighter than the pointer's, and narrower 

 across the ears, but equally high at the forehead. The 

 nose is long, and shows a slight tendency to fall inwards 

 towards the eyes, the corners of which should be not 

 Jess than four inches from its tip. This should be broad^ 

 with large open nostrils, well bedewed with moisture, and 

 of a dark colour. Teeth level, and without the slightest 

 tendency to the " snipe" form. Lips full at the angles, 

 but not pendulous even to the extent allowable in the 

 pointer. Ears must be about 6 inches long, set on low 

 and well forward, carried without any approach to the 

 ])rick shape, and rounded at the lower edges. Eyes 

 large, but not protruding, and beaming with love of ap- 

 probation and intelligence. Neck long, thin, and slightly 

 arched above, but showing a clean-cut line where it joins 

 the head. Value of these /^/«/i ; head, ic; nosC; lo; 

 neck, 5 ; ears, 5— total, 30. 



The frame and outline, though different to the eye of 

 the judge from that of the pointer, cannot be separated 

 from the latter by any verbal description, except that the 



