preference for pointers. Tis 'his fancy his hobby, and that gentle leaning towards 

 one breed often means the fellow's antipathy to another breed. 



In a land or country that has been indifferently cultivated or is wild, there are 

 several kinds of burrs that inconveniently fall at the very time when (the hunting or 

 shooting season begins. Some say that the pointer, because of his short coat, will not 

 be so troubled with these prickles as will the long-coated setter, which is feathered on 

 the legs and picks up the burrs wherever he may go. On the other hand, the setter 

 admirer avows that the feathered and better protected foot of the setter saves him from 

 being lamed so often as the clean and unprotected footed pointer. So it will be seen 

 that these preferences are mostly imaginary and may be traced to fancy. 



On the Continent of Europe we find many kinds of most useful dogs ; but both the 

 pointers and setters are only modifications of the old hunting dogs that came from 

 Spain. There are rough-haired and smooth-coated pointers in Germany, and they are 

 very handsome animals with excellent formation and with hunting qualities of the 

 highest order. The griffons of France, Holland and Belgium are particularly good 

 dogs; rough and ready in appearance, with excellent brains and great scenting powers. 

 In him we will recognize a lot of hound blood which may have come from the otter- 

 hound or the hounds of Vendee. But they are just the sort of dogs that a man wants 

 for rough-shooting in the woods or swamps. The griffon is an active dog, does not 

 throw his tongue when immediately close to game or in sight of it, as does the hound. 

 The griffon makes a good woodcock, "partridge" and duck dog; and as such he has 

 been found of the greatest use in America. The griffon is a good dog in the water as 

 well as on land, and in this way he proves himself a thoroughly serviceable all-round 

 sporting dog. The wolf-hounds of Russia are most useful dogs, and as their name 

 foretells, they are used as wolf-coursing dogs. Three are slipped to the wolf after he 

 has been driven from cover by foxhounds or beaters. When they come up with their 

 game they bump into the quarry and at the right moment lay hold of the beast by the 

 neck and hold him until the hunter arrives and either dispatches the game with a 

 pistol or knife, or placing a stick] in the wolf's jaws, twists a rope around the muzzle 

 and neck, and thus preventing him from accomplishing any harm, captures the creature 

 alive and practically uninjured. The Russian wolf-hound is the best killer of any of 

 the coursing dogs. Like a bulldog, he holds on to what he seizes; his jaws are very 

 powerful, and it is because of this tenacity that the Russian wolf-hound, or borzoi, as 

 he is frequently called, is used far crossing purposes on the English greyhound and the 

 Scottish deerhound or on the progeny of these two breeds, for the purpose of produc- 

 ing what is known as the "long dog" of the Canadian prairies, where he is used princi- 

 pally for coursing and killing the coyote. The Russian wolf-hound has also been 

 successfully crossed on to the deerhound in Australia, either for straight out kangaroo 

 dogs or dingo killers. The Russian wolf-hound goes to the throat of his enemy, and 

 such a dog is required for the prompt killing of dingoes. The long and strong limbs 

 of the kangaroo are means of defense, both as propelling powers in his long and swift 

 bounds or jumps and for fighting when it comes to the more serious defense as against 

 dingoes or the domesticated dogs, hence the kangaroo dog is taught to attack from 

 behind. 



The slugi or greyhounds of Arabia, Persia and Egypt may be noticed. In these 

 we will find small examples of the Russian wolf-hound, but they have down or setter- 

 like ears as opposed to the half-cocked or fully pricked ears of the. Northern dogs. 

 The dogs of the near East have generally long feet and these are feathered, as are 

 their ears, legs and tails. They are used to course antelopes and hares, and one of the 

 most ancient of sports is. to not only course the antelope with these slugi, but at the 

 same time fly hawks at the fleeing buck, which has the advantage over the dogs in 

 sandy places and over stony or rocky ground. The big and somewhat picturesque 

 greyhounds of Afghanistan are large dogs much after the form of the near Eastern 

 dogs ; they are used for the same purposes, and because of their surroundings in high 

 altitudes, they grow large and wooly coats to aid them against the vicissitudes of the 

 cold climate. In India, indeed, all over Asia, the different gun dogs generally associ- 

 ated with the British Isles are used and they cannot very well be done without on the 

 small feathered game which is plentiful. In Japan and China the pheasant shooting is 

 very good, and Americans who have gone over to shoot in those countries have taken 

 their dogs from this country with them and have found them to accomplish all that 

 was required of them. 



If we leave Asia and continue our wanderings and huntings to the South, and 

 reach Africa, we will find plenty of work for our hunting hounds, our coursing dogs 

 and gun dogs. The slugi or greyhound,s were the most valued dogs of the Pharoahs. 

 In the ancient monuments the dogs' places are at the sides of some great personage. 

 It would appear that the tastes of the Egyptians of old were exactly those of the 



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