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suffer dogs to go self-hunting, as they will contract ill 

 habits : you may teach them twenty new tricks before 

 you can break them of one old one, their memories 

 being so very retentive. When you go among a number 

 of them treat them impartially ; rub all their ears and 

 crops, and pet them equally alike ; for if a dog finds 

 himself neglected or unnoticed, you will see him turn 

 melancholy, and go to his bed. 



SELECTION. 



IN choosing a pointer or setter, let his muzzle be open, 

 flew-jawed, rather short : let him have full hazel eyes, 

 called hare's eyes, his poll rising to a point, his ears 

 long and falling down between the neck and jaw bone, 

 which is called being well hung. The neck and head 

 should be set on straight, so that when he points, his 

 nose turns up rather above the horizontal line. Let 

 his shoulders be deep, and well let down ; his elbows 

 well in. He should have straight and large legs ; small 

 feet, a little pointed, standing true, and the balls small 

 and open : narrow withers, back a little hooped, broad 

 loins, deep in the fillets and gaskins, short from the 

 hock to the pastern-joint, flat sides, fine floating veins, 

 straight croup, stern set on high and straight, being very 

 fine ; if a setter, with a deep feather. 



Ill-bred dogs you may know by their being fox-muz- 

 zled, small-eyed, bat-eared, fan-eared, short- necked, 

 having the head set on like a pickaxe, broad withers, 



