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strewed in the fields where you intend to hunt ; this, 

 however, is only giving the sportsman unnecessary 

 trouble, and therefore ought to be exploded. 



A dog intended for setting should never be named 

 PontOy -Carlo, nor indeed any name ending with o ; 

 as ioho is an expression so generally made use of by 

 sportsmen and dog-breakers, when they intend he 

 should keep his ground, that a dog thus named will 

 be liable to be deceived, and to mistake the intention 

 of his master. 



The foregoing observations of course apply equally 

 to setters and pointers; and before I close the present 

 chapter, I cannot forbear remarking, that those 

 pointers brought directly from Spain, are generally 

 ill-formed, and seldom worth the trouble of keeping ; 

 therefore 1 am inclined to suppose, that our pointers 

 are not exactly the same breed : they must either 

 have been crossed in some degree, or the climate 

 have very much altered them. I saw last year a 

 young pointer bitch that had been brought from 

 Spain, and reported to be very well bred. It was 

 remarkably ugly; and could never be brought to 

 hunt or notice game in the least, though every 

 method was used for this purpose. It was much in- 

 ferior to Sir Henry Mildmay's Black Sow, which, if 

 we are to believe the circumstance, was taught 'to 

 .find game, as well as to stand and back, by a keeper 

 of the name of Tupor. The story certainly has 

 somewhat the appearance of romance ; but it is as 



