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brought him safely to land, otherwise he would have 

 lost his life. The dog was presented with a new 

 collar, which he well deserved. 



In many deer forests in Scotland retrievers 

 are used in connection with deer stalking, and 

 are said to be more useful in bringing to bay a 

 wounded stag than the ordinary deerhound. Indeed, 

 a good-tempered dog of the retriever kind, when 

 nicely trained, is a most useful animal, but when 

 kept as a watch dog chained to a barrel in the 

 backyard, or allowed to follow the gutter for a live- 

 lihood, he is treacherous in the extreme, and as such 

 to be avoided. 



If you require a retriever for show purposes, buy 

 one to answer your requirements ; but, if such a dog 

 is required for work, either by land or water or both, 

 do not mind what colour or shape he may be, so 

 long as his character for intelligence and tenderness 

 is satisfactory. Beware of the hard-mouth, of that 

 cold unlovable face and light yellow eye that denote 

 ill-nature and querulousness that in the end will lead 

 to mischief. You, perhaps, will not be able to get 

 hold of such dogs as two or three "H.H." so pleasantly 

 mentions in his practical and valuable work, " The 

 Scientific Education of Dogs for the Gun." One 

 that broke from the bush the bough upon which the 

 lost fly cast hung, and ran eighty yards down stream 



