GROUSE AND PARTRIDGE SHOOTING. 333 
) 
be void unless the greyhound the bet refers to shall run one course in the stake, 
other than a bye, atter the bet is made. Long odds bets, with this exception, 
shall be p.p. 
42. BETS ON STAKES DIVIDED.—Where money has been laid against a dog 
winning a stake, and he divides it, the two sums must be put together and 
divided in the same proportion as the value of the stakes. 
DEER-STALKING. 
It is needless to dilate upon the employment of the dog in 
deer-stalking, as his perfection depends entirely upon his amount 
of experience and the degree of nose and sagacity which he 
naturally possesses, and, moreover, he is seldom used. 
HUNTING. 
Fox-hunting has now become a science in itself, and it would 
be useless to attempt any minute detail here of all the features 
which attend upon it. I have already alluded at some length to 
the duties and peculiarities of the foxhound, in the description 
of the hound himself at page 48, and of the mode of entering 
him at page 48, beyond which I must refer my readers to the 
pages of Beckford and Somerville, among the old authorities, 
and to “Nimrod,” Colonel Cooke, the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, 
Mr. Delmé Radcliffe, and lastly “ Scrutator,” among the modern 
writers on this subject. A treatise on Hunting must comprise at 
least as large a volume as the present, and, therefore, I may well 
be excused from going into it. For the same reason hare-hunting, 
both with harriers and beagles, must be passed over, as well as 
otter-hunting, beyond the notices which are given of the hounds 
used in these sports. 
THE USE OF THE DOG IN SHOOTING. 
The dogs used in aid of the gun are—the pointer, and the setter 
in grouse and partridge shooting ; the spaniel, beagle and terrier 
in covert-shooting; either of the above in snipe-shooting; and 
water-spaniel or retriever in wildfowl-shooting. 
GROUSE AND PARTRIDGE SHOOTING. 
In open shooting, whether of the grouse or partridge, there is 
a great difference of opinion respecting the choice of a dog, that 
