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he climl>ed on a cake of floating ice, and after resting herself on it, she 

 renewed her pursuit of the du< k>. 



• • • In their descendants, even to the present remote generation, the fine 

 qualities of the original pair are conspicuously preserved, in spite of occasional stains 

 of inferior blood. • • • There is one now (Leo) at Maxwells Point, on the 

 (>un|>owder River, in Maryland, a descendant of Sailor, through a slut pop of his, 

 deserves to be named as a noble sperimen of his tribe. • • • Leo stands 

 in height from 20 to 22 inches; bl a. k. vita ■ small white spot on his breast, and 

 a little white OS each foot; his un, fdhwt His form is something aftei 



the model of the setter, without his feathery tail, or the smooth one of the pointer: 

 not so deep in the r, but rounder in his body, and larger in the 



neck, with his ears smaller and more set up, and the tips of them taming down. 

 His hair not exactly long, yet further from l>cing short ; with a woolly under- jacket 

 to protect his sktn from the water, for he has often to make his way through the 

 ■ ihv personnel of Leo — a dog 



■ • Whose honest heart is still his master's own, 

 Who labors, fights, li\es. hrMltlM f'>r him alone' 



"Many anecdotes might be related m proof of his lessoning powers; bnl ire 

 have room only to add, in general terms, that he comes fully /// to the line 0/ his 



