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Varieties of the Dog. 



proportion to his progress. He then takes him where he 

 knows tmffles to be abundant, or where they have been 

 previously found by a well-broken animal, and marked. 

 Thus he gradually learns his trade, and becomes (as his 



Curly-coated Retriever. 



forefathers have been for many generations) the bread- 

 winner for his master and all his master's family ; unless 

 he is so fortunate as to become attache to some lordly 

 mansion, or possibly to a Royal palace, in which case he 

 is a fortunate dog indeed. With regard to points, as he is 

 never shown, none can be laid down. 



The dogs which retrieve game previously wounded by 

 man are very useful, and in the present day, when driving 

 and walking up game are practised extensively without 



