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A COUNTRY READER. 



The rounding of the flock by the sheep 

 dog, and running them in any direction that 

 his master may direct, is a wild kind of hunt- 

 ing, with the killing at the end almost stamped 



out. 



OLD ENGLISH SHEEP DOO, " ORSON." 



May not the pause of the pointer when he 

 stops and points, directly the smell of the 

 partridge on the air reaches him, be the old 

 instinct highly developed of the pause that a 

 wild dog makes in order to give him the final 

 strength necessary to jump with rapidity and 

 accuracy on to his prey ? Was not the obedience 



