English Setter Qitestions 47 



cause the waste of an hour before the handler 

 could find her. Sure Shot, the fastest and widest 

 ranger of Jessie Rodfield's sons, is so heavily 

 ticked that he is almost a dark gray. He drops 

 on point. In public trials his handler is always 

 nervous lest he get out of sight, drop on birds 

 and be thrown out by the judges before he can 

 be located. 



As a converse proof, I remember seeing Sport's 

 Boy and Ortiz Lad down in very heavy cover, 

 chiefly corn-fields and high weeds. An orange- 

 and-white dog for purposes of the eye in the field 

 is about the same as if he were pure white. These 

 two extremely fast and w^idely ranging dogs could 

 be seen flitting through the corn and weeds 

 almost every minute of the trial, when the darker 

 dogs in the same stake were often hard to follow. 

 The pointer, King Cyrano, and the setter, Rod- 

 field's Pride (Cowley's), have given me the same 

 pleasant experience when down together. 



I mention this advantage of the orange-and- 

 white color, because I regard it as of genuine 

 importance. 



Another unfashionable attribute which has a 

 useful function is a fault charged with some as- 

 perity against the Llewellins. It is the tendency 

 to carry a high flag in ranging and to take a point 

 with the tail in the same high position. For 

 the same reason just mentioned in speaking of 



