TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



THE WATER-SPANIEL. 



His blood in setters. Crosses always objectionable. This cross the least so. 

 Two varieties. Points and colors. How to break him. How he should 

 work ; how retrieve. Where to shoot over him for wild fowl for snipe 

 for teal for ruffed grouse. On the Canadian rice lakes . . 209-215 



THE NEWFOUNDLAND EETEIEVEE. 



On the Chesapeake. In Great Britain. In Newfoundland. The Labradorean 

 the pure St. Johns ; their unrivalled qualities ; their sagacity . 216-221 



THE HOUND. 



The Talbot. The Sleuth hound. Shakspeare's type. Somerville's type. In 

 George III.'s time. Stonehenge's views. The improved English hound. 

 How bred. The southern hound. The American fox-hound. Color of 

 hounds. English stag-hound ; English fox-hound ; English harrier ; English 

 beagle ; Scottish deer-hound. How bred 222-234 



KENNEL MANAGEMENT. Absurd dog-laws. Hydrophobia dog-houses clean- 

 liness beds food water exercise special remedies for fleas and vermin 

 to harden the feet for rheumatism. Lewis Blaine Youatt Mayhew 

 on the dog. The last preferred. Emetics purgatives for worms for poi- 

 son for snake bites for epileptic fits. Take advice . . . 236-243 



SNIPE SHOOTING. 



The English snipe American do. Their time of arrival differs in different 

 States. Their seasons state of the ground. Their habits in mild weather 

 in wintry weather in hail storms when breeding. Drumming of snipe 

 great flights of snipe when to look for them in spring where. Best 

 weather for in England here. Peculiarity of snipe how to beat for; 

 with what dogs; Col. Hutchinson ; fast dogs; steady dogs; the check cord; 

 dogs racing ; beating at a trot ; the slow pointer ; down wind ; distance of 

 shots; snipe shooting a knack; autumn shipe shooting; in Canada; cour- 

 tesy ; how to shoot in company ; how to mark ; twenty rules for young 

 sportsmen. The Virginia rail. The pectoral sandpiper . . 244-2TO 



BAY SHOOTING. 



Wild fowl; none at this season; whither gone; bay snipe. The curlew. 

 The common curlew. The Hudsonian curlew. The Esquimaux curlew. 

 The golden plover ; the black-bellied plover ; the Bartramian sandpiper or 

 upland plover ; the godwits marlin and ring-tailed marlin. Eed-breasted 

 sandpiper ; red-backed sandpiper. The yellow-shanks tattler ; tell-tale tit- 

 tier. The willet. Mode of shooting them. Proper guns for. Anecdotes. 

 End of season 271-281 



WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 



In July decrease of woodcock; impropriety of law; unfltness of season; the 

 old birds , the young do. ; shall dogs flush ? to keep dogs steady ; spaniel 



