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variety of game which, in the course of 

 the season, is presented to him; but of 

 the grandeur and style in which the diver- 

 sion of shooting admits of being prose- 

 cuted amongst the hills of the north, for 

 the somewhat too brief period during 

 which, for a variety of reasons, the pursuit 

 is at all practicable, he can have but a very 

 humble conception ; and for the means of 

 creating perfection in the dog, the advan- 

 tages are altogether on the side of the 

 former. Let me add, that with a some- 

 what various acquaintance with different 

 counties in the south of this island, 

 although I have seen many dogs, to whom, 

 without having had their noses elevated 

 above the level of a partridge, it would 

 be unfair to refuse the epithet of good, I 

 have never witnessed one whom I could 

 consider as entitled to any very eminent 

 distinction, who had not in early life the 

 good fortune to have his legs stretched, 

 and his faculties expanded, on the moors. 



" And here I shall take the liberty of 

 pausing, for the purpose of giving way to 



