32 SHOOTING: 



Their warm and shaggy coats are always found 

 To tire them much, where water don't abound ; 

 Their services I've notic'd always yield 

 Much greater profit in a copse or weald 

 Shaded from sun, than in the open field. 

 Thus are their rivals found, and with good reason, 

 The best for the commencement of the season. 

 Though on the moors, Setters do much obtain, 

 Without relays the Sportsman would in vain 

 Seek the reward all Shots so hope to gain. 

 Their feet are better cloth'd, 'tis true, with hair, 



Than Pointers are ; thus o'er the heath they fare 

 Best of the two, and were they but as stanch, 

 For Grouse, perhaps, their merit might advance : 

 Give them their due, they're ever found to make 

 The better dog, 'mongst thorns and furzy brake, 

 With perfect ease they through such mazes move, 

 As much too sharp for Pointers' hides would prove : 

 They beat the ground much faster, some aver, 

 But 'tis not that we want, 'tis stamina. 



