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breeds and breeders affect black noses and palates ; but I 

 must say that there are full as many good without the black 

 as with it. I rather incline to the opinion that they are the 

 best notwithstanding. Body like the Pointer, only deeper 

 and broader, if anything ; legs long to knee, short thence 

 downwards ; feet small, close, and thickly clothed with hair 

 between the toes, ball and toe tufts they are termed ; tail 

 long, fine, and tapering, thickly feathered with long, soft, 

 wavy hair ; stern and legs down to feet also feathered. His 

 body and feet also should be clothed with long, soft, silky 

 hair, wavy, but no curl in it. This last smells badly of water 

 spaniel. Colors, black and white, red and white, black and 

 tan. These last I consider the finest bred ones. Roan also 

 is good. The Irish setter is red, red and white, white and 

 yellow spotted. The nose, hps, and palate always black. 

 He is also rather more bony and muscular than the English 

 breed, and ten times as headstrong and enduring. He 

 requires constant and severe work, under most rigid disci- 

 pline, to keep in anything like decent subjection. 



SETTEE, RUSSIAN. 



The Russian Setter is as distinct from either of the above 

 varieties as bulldog from greyhound. It is covered more 

 profusely with long, thick, curly, soft, and silky hair, well 

 on to the top of the head and over the eyes. He is also 

 more bony and muscular, with a much shorter and broader 

 head. What he wants in dash aud ranging propensities, he 

 makes up for in unwearied assiduity, extreme carefulness, 

 and extraordinary scenting powers. The cross between this 



