260 SCUUTATOR IN MS SHOOTING JACKET. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Scrutator in his Shooting Jacket. — A quick Method of filling 

 the Bag. — Accidents arising from the imprudent handling 

 of Fire-arms. — The Poaching Fraternity. — A Sporting Poet. 

 — The Habits of the Partridge. — Pointers crossed with the 

 Fox-hound. — Old Ponto. — What Pointers can do when well 

 trained. — The distinguishing attribute of Pointers common 

 to the whole Canine race. 



" Now the rude clamour of the sportsman's joy, 

 The gun fast thundering, and the winded horn, 

 Break the long silence of the peaceful glades." 



With the month of September actual business 

 begins, and whilst with his staunch brace of 

 pointers the shooter is ranging the stubbles and 

 turnip fields, the huntsman, with a few steady 

 supporters, and thorough -going fox-hunters, is 

 knocking about the cubs in the neighbouring 

 woodlands, and watching with anxious eye the 

 progress of his young darlings, whom he is train- 

 ing up in the way they should go. Many an 



