CHAPTER IV 

 Dogs Used in Sport (Continued) 



POINTERS SETTERS RETRIEVERS 



The Pointer. — Although this variety of dog has not, 

 in the general way, enjoyed the advantage of constant 

 human society, to anything like the extent possessed by 

 some others, there is little doubt numbers of the family 

 have developed considerable intelligence, particularly 

 in connection with their work. The late Mr. Forster 

 of Manchester, relates that a Pointer belonging to him, 

 when out with his master, would, if he missed a bird, 

 go up to him, seize hold of and shake his gaiter, as if 

 to remonstrate with him for not making better use of 

 the game he had found for him. And the late Revd. 

 T. Pearce, no mean authority on most breeds of 

 " sporting dogs," said in speaking of Pointers, " I have 

 no prejudice for the Setter, over the Pointer, although 

 I have had ten Setters to one Pointer. If the ground I 

 shoot over suits the Pointer, the Pointer suits me, but I 

 do not think he is quite so well adapted for the gun as 

 the Setter, provided the Setter is of equal talent and 

 adequately broken. But, it would be hard to find any- 

 thing more perfect than some Pointers I have shot over 

 myself, or more thoroughly intelligent, industrious and 



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