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hunted and found birds by their ground scent, and 

 worked more like a hound than a pointer or setter. 

 Had he done like " Idstone's " Gordons, crossed with 

 his collie, and gone round his birds as his ancestors 

 would have done round a flock of sheep, I should 

 have noticed it. He did not do so. His head was 

 always down. A third day he worked well within 

 range, answered to the whistle, and his old training 

 had come back to him. He was, however, no use to 

 me, so I gave him away. Now, this Gordon setter 

 was good-looking, and from a strain that bore a 

 reputation of being " pure even amongst the pure," 

 but his manners and appearance were too hound- 

 like to please me. 



There is no doubt a screw loose somewhere in 

 the Gordon setter, else he would be more popular 

 now than he appears to be. With the early Field 

 Trials he had much to do, with the later ones next 

 to nothing. The Rev. T. Pearce's Rex and Kent, 

 Mr. Adey's Kate, Young Kent, and Mr. J. H. 

 Salter's Rex all performed creditably in the field ; 

 so did the Earl of Dudley's Claret and Dandy 

 (Mr. J. N. Fleming's, Maybole, N.B.), the champion 

 at Southill trials in 1865, but somehow or other 

 this good work did not continue, and was uneven. 

 Some dogs were slow and stupid ; others fast and 

 disobedient, and as a fact I have only seen two 



