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somer, but Bob is tlie very best dog I ever pulled a trig- 

 ger over in my life. That's all." 



" But I thought you said they had never seen snipe.'' 



" I said they had never been hunted upon snipe, or 

 allowed to point them. English-broke setters, are very 

 apt to be whipped off snipe, for it's a horrid bore in 

 moor-shooting, to toil half a mile or better up hill to a 

 steady point, and then instead of a pack of grouse, to 

 flush what Colquhoun calls a ' twiddling snipe.' These 

 dogs were broke in England, and re-broke in Canada 

 West." 



" And are there no snipe there ?" 



" So many, and they lie so hard, that dogs are useless. 

 On the regular snipe grounds, they walk them up." 



" And how do you expect these dogs to point snipe 

 now?" 



" I do not expect them to point snipe at first ; but as 

 soon as they find we are shooting them, they'll point 

 them fast enough, I promise you." 



"You think so?" 



" No. I know so. I would bet a hundred to five, if 

 I were a betting man, that before night they point, and 

 back, and find dead too, on snipe as steadily as ever you 

 saw dogs." 



" May be so ; but it's new to me. Do you mean to 

 say that good dogs will stand anything ?" 



" I mean to say that good dogs can be broke to stand 

 on anything, or nothing." 



