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white^ or yellow and white dogs have more tender 

 feet, and are more tender in every way, than black 

 or brown ones. White dogs are best seen on the 

 moors, and black ones the best in a stubble. I 

 once had three dogs I sometimes hunted in com- 

 pany — a number I do not by any means recom- 

 mend — they were a jet black, a perfect white, and 

 (my old favourite) a brown and white ticked dog. 

 The picture formed by these dogs when pointing, 

 the white being in the middle of the three, was 

 the most beautiful I ever beheld. 



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Is not dissimilar in appearance to a water- spaniel. 

 By some it is called the " Russian Setter ;^^ an 

 appellation, in my opinion, more appropriate. 

 These dogs never came much in my way — in fact 

 I never saw but two in the field : one appeared a 

 very indifferent dog ; the other a very docile, 

 good, hard-Avorking bitch, with excellent temper 

 — the very opposite of the dog. I shot over this 

 bitch repeatedly in the Isle of Man, and better I 

 would not wish to have for cold or wet weather ; 

 but as I did not find her superior to a smooth 

 pointer, I felt no inclination to possess a breed of 

 dogs remarkable for their uncommon ugliness. 

 However, a friend of mine, resident in Hereford- 



