6t COLONEL HANGER, TO 



acquaintance, Charles Wyndham, came and 

 sate down by me. After some racing con- 

 versation, he said to me, " George, I will 

 give yon one of the very best pointers in Eng- 

 land." After thanking him kindly, I said, 

 '' My dear Charles, yoli will not, I trust, take 

 it ill of me if I ask you one question?" " Cer- 

 tainly not," he rephed. — " How can you, 

 who are fond of shooting yourself, give me 

 a most excellent pointer?" — '' Why. I will 

 give you my reason. My groom feeds all 

 my dogs, and, having other business to per- 

 form, he cannot always attend me shooting; 

 and this dog, when he has hunted a short 

 time, if I speak even a little harshly to 

 him, runs away home, and I know I shall 

 one day or other shoot him. It is a pity 

 so good a dog should come to any harm, 

 and, as I know you always feed your own 

 dogs, he will be attached to you, and be a 

 most useful animal." — He was kind enough 

 to send him shortly to my house in London. 

 I always make my dogs 7717/ companwTis, in 

 the shooting season ; taking them into the 

 ^, ,, room where 1 sit, after I am returned from 



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gen&uo"an the field ; letting them bask themselves by 



awimah. 



