Choosing a Shooting Dog i8i 



being small, he will hustle out a wonderful variety 

 of game in a loiter of a few days and, unless he 

 is a Clumber, will always tell you about it aloud 

 in time. No dog within my knowledge is so 

 readily brought under command and so human in 

 its companionship. Breeding for shortness of leg 

 and perfection of coat has not yet diminished 

 these, his psychical charms. His thick jacket 

 will be a receptacle of burs and mud, but it will 

 protect him in brier and rain. In an outing afoot 

 for its own sake, pick the sporting spaniel ahead 

 of everything else canine. 



He who would cut up the map into sections for 

 the assignment of dogs thereto must know much 

 beside temperatures. In far Manitoba pointers 

 are popular because pinnated and sharp-tail 

 grouse are the best game, and August and Sep- 

 tember the best season. In the Gulf States 

 setters are used freely, because there they shoot 

 quail all winter and mostly in brushy country. 

 The dogs which are most successful in the East 

 also seem to excel on California quail and gen- 

 erally through the Pacific slope. It would be 

 wise to find what is to be done before checking 

 off sections for different breeds or different types. 



When pondering on a pedigree, the amateur 

 will find all kinds of opinions. I should be in- 

 clined to put it in this way, beginning with Eng- 

 lish setters. If you desire a fashionable pedigree, 



