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but would take good care to keep at a respect- 

 able distance from a horse in the water, although 

 he would overlook these proceedings with a 

 pleased dogified air, and would swim out to sea 

 until he could barely be distinguished. 



" When I left Cape Town for the interior of 

 the Colony, I took with me a steady pointer, a 

 half-bred dog, who was a very fair retriever, and 

 my noble friend and companion, Triton ; shortly 

 afterwards the retriever died, and there was no 

 possible mode of supplying this loss where I 

 was then quartered. I had been in the habit 

 of taking Triton with me when shooting small 

 game on foot, with a Knox double-barrelled 

 flint gun, pottering about near my station, 

 seeking partridges, hares, quails, snipes, &c. 

 One these occasions I taught Triton to keep 

 close to my heels, and not to chase, but as he 

 seemed to pay great attention to the sport, it. 

 struck me he could be made useful, and with a 

 little trouble I taught him to bring game to me, 

 and when put on the trail of wounded game, 

 his sagacity and wonderful nose was astonishing. 

 It was a beautiful sight to a sportsman to watch 

 the dog puzzle out the scent of a wounded 



