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showing resentment for a long time afterwards. 

 At the other extreme, an EngHsh setter usually 

 takes reproof amiably, jumps up gayly, and forgets 

 his grief. 



To sum it up, whether of one breed or one 

 strain or another, you should look for moral stam- 

 ina, nervous energy, and proper physical propor- 

 tions. Next demand beauty and breediness, and 

 lastly insist on pedigree. If you can get these 

 qualities, you have a dog as good as anybody's, 

 no matter in what company you shoot. 



One scientific and practical reason for demand- 

 ing a pedigree lies entirely apart from mere fashion 

 and prestige, and rests upon what might be called 

 the potentiality of inheritance. 



Every man who has had occasion to employ 

 large numbers of men or women has more or 

 less clearly perceived the strange abruptness with 

 which an individual will come up against the 

 limit of his or her powers, a limit beyond which 

 further development is hopeless. In my own pro- 

 fession I have employed several hundred young 

 men and women. I may be allowed to say that 

 they were, as people go, of select intellectual 

 abilities. Time and time asrain I have been 

 startled at the suddenness with which the limit 

 would be reached ; and at the utter impossibility 

 of carrying capacity a step beyond that point. 



Last year I asked Dr. Stanley Hall of Clark 



