week. 'A setter,' retorted Sir Bingo with a sneer; ' a pointer, I 

 suppose you mean ? ' ' No, sir, 1 said Tyrrel ; ' I am perfectly aware 

 of the difference betwixt a setter and a pointer, and I know the 

 old-fashioned setter is become unfashionable among modern sports- 

 men. But I love my dog as a companion, as well as for his merits 

 in the field ; and a setter is more sagacious, more attached, and 

 fitter for his place on the hearth-rug, than a pointer- not,' he 

 added, ' from any deficiency of intellects on the pointer's part, but 

 he is generally so abused while in the management of brutal breakers 

 and grooms that he loses all excepting his professional accomplish- 

 ments, of finding and standing steady to game.' ' 



Sir Bingo could not understand why one should wish for 

 anything more. He never before heard that a setter was fit to 

 follow any man's heels but a poacher's. Tyrrel's point was that 

 " many people have been of opinion, that both dogs and men may 

 follow sport indifferently well, though they do happen, at the same 

 time, to be fit for mixing in friendly intercourse in society." A 

 sentiment which we cordially approve. Whether the shooting man 

 should select a Pointer or Setter to aid him in the field or on the 

 moor resolves itself very largely into a question of individual taste. 

 Either, .when well broken, is capable of carrying out his highly 

 specialized duties with great skill, and no prettier sight can be 

 imagined than a brace of these clever animals quartering the ground 

 and coming to a statuesque point when the game is winded. Of 



