Some American Sporting Dogs. 



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LIVBR-AND-WHITE POINTER "RANGER." (OWNED BY S. B. DILLY, LAKE CITY, MINN.) 



of the blade-bones, with a great amount of muscle, long in the blades, set slanting, 

 with arm of the leg strong and coming away straight, and elbow neither out nor in; 

 the legs not great, heavy-boned, but with a great amount of muscle ; leg pressed straight 

 to the foot, well rounded and symmetrical, with foot well rounded, that is, the fore-legs 

 and feet ; chest moderately deep, not over-wide, but sufficiently wide and deep to give 

 plenty of breathing room ; back level, wide in loins ; deeply ribbed, and with ribs car- 

 ried well back ; hips wide and full of muscle, not straight in the hock, but moderately 

 bent ; stifles full and well developed ; the stem nearly straight, going off tapering to 

 the point, set in level with the back, carried straight, not above the level of back ; sym- 

 metry and general appearance racy ; and much beauty of form appears to the eye of a 

 real jxiinter breeder and fancier." 



At our bench-shows, pointers are divided into two classes, those 

 weighing under, and those over, fifty pounds. It is difficult to name 

 the period when pointers were first brought to this country. I have 

 traced some as far back as 18 10, when a gentleman from Sheffield, 

 England, brought a brace to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the 

 ' bird-dogs" were objects of great curiosity. I know of no one at 

 the present day who has bred them more carefully or for a longer 

 time than Mr. Frederick Schuchard, of New York. For high courage, 

 keen nose, and most perfect stanchness, I know of no pointer the 

 superior of Mr. Dilly's "Ranger, M — a dog who is worked on the 

 prairies almost every day of the season, and of whom it is said by 

 his a dmirers, "he never flushed a bird." 

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