CHAPTER XIV 



THE DOGS THEY PREFER 



If I were the reader and somebody else the 

 writer, I should find most of pleasure in this chap- 

 ter and that on foxhounds. 



When reading articles on the comparative 

 merits of sporting-dog breeds and individuals, I 

 have usually been annoyed by soon perceiving a 

 narrowness of view and a limited experience. It 

 may be the fact that every man's natural limita- 

 tions make him narrow. However that may be, 

 I am cheerfully willing to confess that my own 

 experience is not all of the world. To furnish 

 the reader with the results of competent observa- 

 tion by disinterested followers of field sport in 

 different parts of America, I have asked some 

 representative sportsmen to let me give their 

 views of what a shooting dog should be. 



Mr. Harry R. Edwards of Cleveland, Mr. H. 

 Marshall Graydon of London, Canada, and Mr. 

 Martin Voorhees of St. Louis are three hard- 

 going and genuine amateur field shots. Mr. Ed- 

 wards shoots in Ohio and also on his preserve 

 in North Carolina and other parts of the South. 



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