110 AMERICAN GAME, 
somer, but Bob is the very best dog I ever pulled a trig- 
ger over in my life. That’s all.” 
“ But I thought you said they had never seen snipe.” 
“T gaid they had never been hunted upon snipe, or 
allowéd to point them. English-broke setters, are very 
apt to be whipped off snipe, for it’s a horrid bore in 
moor-shooting, to toil half a mile or better up hill to a 
steady point, and. then instead of a pack of grouse, to 
flush what Colquhoun calls a ‘ twiddling snipe.’ These 
dogs were broke in England, and re-broke in Canada 
West.” , 
“ And are there no snipe there?” 
“So many, and they lie so hard, that dogs are useless. 
On the regular snipe grounds, they walk them up.” 
“ And how do you expect these dogs to point snipe 
now ?” . 
“T do not expect them to point snipe at first; but as 
soon as they find we are shooting them, they'll point 
them fast enough, I promise you.” 
“You think so?” 
“No. Iknowso. I would bet a hundred to five, if 
I were a betting man, that before night they point, and 
back, and find dead too, on snipe as steadily as ever you 
saw dogs.” 
“May be so; but it’s new to me. Do you mean to 
say that good dogs will stand anything ?” 
“T mean to say that good dogs can be broke to stand 
on anything, or—nothing.” 
