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or thirty yards away from the gun, and always to "come to heel" 

 or "down charge" at the report. 



The dogs to which I have hitherto referred are those used almost 

 exclusively for upland shooting, for although setters, or even point- 

 ers, if taught, will retrieve from water, yet when one is to follow 



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IKIsH WATER-SPANIEL " SINBAD." (OWNED BY J. H. WHITMAN, CHICAGO, ILL.) 



duck-shooting to any great extent, whether on western lakes or on 

 tin- waters of Chesapeake Hay or Currituck Sound, it is much better 

 to be provided with a dog particularly adapted for the purpose. In 

 I once almost ruined several good setters in California by allow- 

 ing them to retrieve constantly from water, the result being that all 

 were afflicted with canker of the ear. At the present writing, my 

 Gordon, " Lou, is displaying symptoms of the same complaint — the 

 result, 1 believe, of unlimited swimming and diving last summer in 

 die w.iti -rs of the Great South Bay.* The pure Irish water-spaniel 

 irely met with in this country. Mr. J. H. Whitman, of Chicago, 

 a portrait of whose 4 * Sinbad " is given, probably has the finest 



•As canker of the ear is a very common disease, always, i nd ica te d by the dog 

 shaking his head and ten* king at his ears. I would mention here that it < an be easily 

 cured by the following lotion: — Goulard's extract and wine of opium, of each one-half 

 ounce; sulphate of zinc, one- half dram; water, seven ounces; mix. The ear should 

 first be cleansed thoroughly with soap and warm water, and I little of the lotion injected 

 twice a day. 



N. h the foregoing was written, " I. on" has been entirely cured by this 



remedy. 



