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evidence that a dog of some kind was not used as 

 an assistant by the bird shooter, even at that early 

 date. Such an animal, too, would be the original of 

 our present race of setters though bearing scarcely 

 any resemblance to our modern productions. 



Naturally for information about the setter one will 

 turn to the earliest book on English dogs, and this 

 was written in Latin as far back as 1570, by the 

 often quoted Johannes Caius, a Doctor of Physic of 

 the University of Cambridge. This valuable and 

 interesting treatise was, six years later, translated into 

 English by Abraham Fleming, and published by 

 Richard Johnes, who sold the book " over against 

 St. Sepulchre's Church without Newgate," and no 

 doubt it told all that was known about dogs at that 

 time. Still, lovers of the canine race might to their 

 advantage have had a more profuse chronicler, for, 

 though fairly complete as far as it goes, there must 

 have been more to write about dogs, even in the 

 sixteenth century, than Caius put on paper. How- 

 ever, what there is we give, the quotations being 

 made from the reprint published by L. U. Gill, at 

 170, Strand, London. 



The first author of a book on English dogs says : 



Such dogs as serve for fowling are to be accounted of a gentle 

 kind, and there be two sorts : the first findeth the game on the 

 land, the other findeth the game on the water. Such as delight 



