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proportion to his progress. He then takes him where he 
knows truffles to be abundant, or where they have been 
previously found by a well-broken animal, and marked. 
Thus he gradually learns his trade, and becomes (as his 
Curly-coated Retriever. 
forefathers have been for many generations) the bread- 
winner for his master and all his master’s family ; unless 
he is so fortunate as to become a#faché to some lordly 
mansion, or possibly to a Royal palace, in which case he 
is a fortunate dog indeed. With regard to fornts, as he is 
never shown, none can be laid down. 
The dogs which retrieve game previously wounded by 
man are very useful, and in the present day, when driving 
and walking up game are practised extensively without 
