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circumstances they would feel their reputation 

 jeopardised if they only wounded a bird, it would 

 be, in point of mortification, next to a miss. 



I can readily conceive such men being willing 

 to give very high prices for well broke dogs. 

 I can conceive few things more provoking to 

 such a man than seeing birds get up before 

 him, out of gun range, through the inadvertence 

 or (what I firmly believe such casualties fre- 

 quently arise from,) the want of nose in his 

 pointer, he knows it is a brace lost to him. 

 The ordinary shot may feel, if he does not 

 own it, that, had the birds not risen until he 

 was within shot of them, he might have missed, 

 even doubtless to him the chagrin would be 

 great in having his chance done away with by 

 his dog, but neither dog or master being first- 

 rate at their business it is but fair they should 

 make allowance for each other, the dog for his 

 master frequently disappointing him by missing, 

 the master if the dog, in some instances, does 



