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writers, and perhaps more reliable ones, including 

 Delabere Blane (1840), say that Robert, Duke of 

 Northumberland, as early as 1555, is said to have 

 trained a setter to the net; and that other authorities 

 of antecedent dates notice the sitter, or setter, as a 

 dog used for sporting purposes." 



Stonehenge, referring to the foregoing, states: 

 "Soon afterward the Setter was produced, either by 

 selection, or by crossing the Talbot Hound with the 

 Spaniel." The inconsistency of Stonehenge that is, 

 asserting in one relation that the setter is of spaniel 

 origin, and in another relation that its origin may be 

 in a cross of hound and spaniel is apparent. 



Lee quotes quite extensively from Dr. Johannes 

 Caius, a Doctor of Physic of the University of Cam- 

 bridge, who wrote about the year 1570, the following 

 being directly to the point : "The dog called the Set- 

 ter, in Latin Index. Another sort of dog there be 

 serviceable for fowling, making no noise with foot or 

 tongue whilst they follow the game. These attend 

 diligently upon their masters, and frame their condi- 

 tions to such becks, motions and gestures as it shall 

 please him to exhibit and make, either going forward, 

 drawing backward, inclining right hand or yielding 

 to the left. In making mention of fowl, my meaning 

 here is of partridge and quail. When he hath found 

 the bird he keepeth sure and fast silence, and stayeth 

 his steps and will proceed no further, and with close, 

 covert, watching eye, layeth his belly to the ground and 

 so creepeth forward like a worm. When he approach- 



