Varieties of the Do<^. 



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pointers or setters, the retriever is an indispensable ac- 

 companiment to every shooter who indulges in this kind 

 of sport. There is no distinct breed recognized, though 

 the cross of the spaniel or setter with the small New- 

 foundland has become now quite as much so as the 





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Wavy-coated Retriever, 



modern Leicester or Southdown sheep. Indeed, the re- 

 currence to this cross is seldom employed in breeding 

 retrievers, males and females of that strain being chosen 

 on each side. I have a great fancy that the modern 

 rough St. Bernard, of which the Rev. J. C. Macdona has 

 some magnificent specimens, will, if crossed with good 

 setter blood, produce an excellent result, and I intended 

 to try the experiment, that gentleman having kindly given 

 me a daughter of his celebrated Tell and Hedwig for the 



