152 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
Although I'could not but remark the excellence of my friend’s dogs, 
yet it struck me, as 1 had shot over my own old favourite setter 
(who had himself beat many good ones, and had never before been 
beaten) for eight years, that his nose could not have been right, 
for the Russians got three points to his one. I therefore resolved 
to try some others against them the next season; and having 
heard a gentleman well known as an excellent judge speak of a 
brace of extraordinary young dogs he had seen in the neighbour- 
hood of his Yorkshire moors, with his recommendation I purchased 
A Russian Setter slightly crossed with English blood. 
them. I shot to them in August last, and their beauty and style 
of performance were spoken of in terms of praise by a correspondent 
to a sporting paper. In September I took them into Somerset- 
shire, fully anticipating that I should give the Russians the 
go-by; but I was again disappointed. I found, from the wide 
ranging of my dogs, and the noise consequent upon their going so 
fast through stubbles and turnips (particularly in the middle of the 
day, when the sun was powerful and there was but little scent), 
