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on his birds, and was a most admirable and satisfactory 

 field dog, working on game as closely and knowingly as 

 a man could do if he had a dog's form and faculties. 

 Neither of these Laverack setters retrieved game, but they 

 made a rattling brace on a snipe meadow, backing on 

 sight at any distance, absolutely staunch on point and 

 dropping in good old-fashioned style to wing or shot. 

 They still live in loving memory of many human hearts, 

 and their strain, crossed with the Morford stock, is still 

 carefully bred; its inherited physical and mental qualities 

 and capabilities, the resultants of generations of selection, 

 training and association, making these canines as thor- 

 ough workers in the field as they are affectionate and in- 

 telligent friends and companions at home. They are so 

 human that it is often said of them, "They think them- 

 selves folks," and the best in the house, be it window-seat, 

 lounge or hearth-rug, is never too good, in their own way 

 of taking it, for these two comprehensive and compre- 

 hending members of the family. Nevertheless, unlike 

 Squire Kayse's famous pointer Lee, of Sussex county, N. 

 J., these setters can't catch fish with hook and line, and if 

 they have occupied much space in this narrative it is be- 

 cause they deserve it. No sketch of Colonel Raymond 

 would be complete without an extended notice of this im- 

 portation of some of the best blooded setters of England, 

 and of their having been bred to some of the native stock, 

 for which American lovers of high-class setters will ever 

 be under obligations to Colonel Charles H. Raymond. 



During the period that the Fox Farm Kennels were in 

 existence it was my fortune to be a guest of the proprietor 

 and to talk bird dog as well as turtles with him, while pick- 

 ing the wing of a partridge at his table. I have long since 

 forgiven him for saying that Nell was imperfectly broken 

 and would not "back a point." Of course she would not 



