TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



THE -WATER-SPANIEL. 



His blood in setters. Crosses always objectionable. This cross the least so. 

 Two varieties. Points and colors. How to break him. How he should 

 work; how retrieve. Where to shoot over him— for wild fowl— for snipe — 

 for teal— for ruffed grouse. On the Canadian rice lakes 209-215 



THE NEWFOUNDLAND KETKIEVEK. 



On tbe Chesapeake. In Great Britain. In Newfoundland. The Labradoreau 

 the pure St. Johns ; their unrivalled qualities ; their sagacity . 216-221 



THE HOUND. 



The Talbot. The Sleuth hound. Shakspeave's type. Somerville's type. In 

 George III.'s time. Stonchenge's views. The improved English hound. 

 How bred. The southern hound. The American fox-hound. Color of 

 hounds. English stag-hound ; English fox-hound; English harrier; English 

 beagle; Scottish deer-hound. How bred .... 222-234 



Kennel Management. — Absurd dog -laws. Hydrophobia— dog-houses — clean- 

 liness — beds— food — water— exercise — special remedies— for fleas and vermin 

 — to harden the feet — for rheumatism. Lewis — Blaine — Touatt — Mayhew 

 on the dog. The last preferred. Emetics— purgatives— for worms— for poi- 

 son— for snake bites— for epileptic fits. Take advice . . 235-243 



SNIPE SHOOTING. 



The English snipe — American do. Their time of arrival — differs in different 

 States. Their seasons— state of the ground. Their habits — in mild weather 

 — in wintry weather — in hail storms — when breeding. Drumming of snipe 

 — great flights of snipe — when to look for them in spring — where. Best 

 ■weather for — in England — here. Peculiarity of snipe — how to beat for; 

 with what dogs ; Col. Hutchinson ; fast dogs ; steady dbgs ; the check cord ; 

 dogs racing; beating at a trot; the slow pointer; downwind; distance of 

 shots; snipe shooting a knack; autumn shipe shooting; in Canada; cour- 

 tesy ; how to shoot in company ; how to mark ; twenty rules for young 

 sportsmen. The Virginia rail. The pectoral sandpiper . . 244-270 



BAT SHOOTING. 



Wild fowl; none at this season; whither gone; bay snipe. The curlew. 

 The common curlew. The Hudsonian curlew. The Esquimaux curlew. 

 The golden plover ; the black-bellied plover ; the Bartramian sandpiper or 

 upland plover ; the godwits — marlin and ring-tailed marlin. Red-breasted 

 sandpiper ; red-backed sandpiper. The yellow-shanks tattler ; tell-tale tat- 

 tler. The willet. Mode of shooting them. Proper guns for. Anecdotes. 

 End of season . .... 2T1-2S1 



WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 



In July— decrease of woodcock; impropriety of law; unfitness of season; the 

 old birds, the young do.; shall dogs flush? to keep dogs steady; spaniel 



