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there were certainly setters in the sixteenth century, 

 and I very much regret Caius did not give us a 

 picture of one " crawling along the ground like a 



worm." 



As he did not, a search elsewhere must be made 

 for an illustration, and this I found, and bearing 

 an earlier date than the year when Caius first 

 wrote his little book. In the summer of 1891 an 

 exhibition of " Sport illustrated by Art," was held 

 in the Grosvenor Gallery, London, and here were 

 hung a large number of most valuable subjects of 

 the painter's art. To me not one was nearly so 

 interesting as a canvas upon which was painted one 

 of the many delineations of the patron saint of 

 hunting, St. Hubert, by Albrecht Diirer, the great 

 painter, who died in 1528. In one corner of the 

 picture was a black tan and white setter, extra- 

 ordinary in its resemblance to many of the modern 

 stamp. Indeed, so great was the likeness that one 

 was tempted to look and re-look at the picture until 

 the wonder was aroused where the painter obtained 

 his model from which he made the sketch, or 

 whether this modern setter on an ancient canvas 

 was an emanation from his own brain. The head, 

 coat, ears, character, and colour of the dog were 

 all there, a typical specimen of the modern English 

 setter in black, white, and tan a dog similar in all 



