THE MODERN ENGLISH POINTER. 131 
at will in the next and subsequent crosses either keep or get rid 
of any of them which he may like or dislike. Whether, therefore, 
Mr. Edge and his contemporaries, who produced the modern pointer, 
crossed the Spanish dog with the foxhound or not, they ought care- 
fully to have got rid of low-hunting ; and this Mr. Edge undoubtedly 
did, but there are other kennels of nearly equal celebrity in which 
a low style of hunting and a trailing stern, with a tendency to 
work in circles rather than in straight lines, indicate unmistakably 
that the hound’s faults (gwoad shooting) have been retained. Such 
“Sancuo,” a Modern English Pointer. 
dogs I have seen receive prizes at field trials, though I would hang 
every one of them if I had my will; for though some useful 
animals will sometimes be met with retaining a disposition to 
hunt for a few years, yet the great majority of them at the end of 
their first season do nothing but potter at the hedgerows, and are 
thereby rendered utterly useless. 
Within the last thirty years the change in farming has com- 
pletely upset the vocation of the pointer as a partridge-dog, except 
