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two dogs, we should not regard space in lineal measure but in 

 square measure. Thus, if we take the slow speed at 50 yards 

 and the long nose at 100 yards and multiply them together, we 

 get 5000 square yards as the capacity of the slow dog for 

 hunting ground, while that of the fast dog may be 100 yards 

 of speed multiplied by 10 yards of nose, or only 1000 square 

 yards of covering capacity as against 5000 of the slow dog. 



This is not intended to be an excuse for slow dogs, for it 

 usually happens that the very fast ones are also the best for 

 nose ; but it is meant to imply that a dog should not be exert- 

 ing his whole energy in galloping, because if he is he will not 

 be thinking about game-finding, and will not find. A pointer 

 must do the thing easily, and go well within his powers. He 

 must not couple and uncouple like a greyhound. He must not 

 gallop like a little race-horse, although he may, if he can, gallop 

 like one of those smashers that are said to " win in a canter," 

 which means that they are not exerting themselves. Pointers 

 with lively stern action may be taken always to be hunting well 

 within their powers. Some of those that have no stern action 

 would have it if they were not over-exerting themselves in gallop- 

 ing, but this is not invariable ; and some of the fastest and best 

 pointers have not had stern action. For instance, Drake had not. 



About 1872, Mr. Thomas Statter, of Stand Hall, near 

 Manchester, had as good pointers as anyone and the best 

 setters. His pointers were of Lord Derby's liver-and-white 

 strain, and Major, Manton, Rex, and Viscount were some of his 

 best. Major appears at no time to have been under much 

 control, but he was a dog of great natural capacity, and his 

 blood told in future canine generations, whereas that of his 

 better trained victors died out. The late Mr. A. P. Heywood 

 Lonsdale had a fine strain of this kind of pointer blood, and at 

 the moment of writing one of the best, if not the actual best 

 pointer in America is descended from dogs exported direct 

 from the Ightfield kennel, which is now particularly strong in 

 setters, but has not many pointers. For the late Mr. Lonsdale, 

 and afterwards for his son, Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale, the 

 late W. Brailsford managed a fine kennel of dogs, as he had 



