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' Colour more often brown than black, a sort of sandy brown ; 

 curly coat and inclined to be open and woolly. The coat 

 is not long, and across the back there is often a saddle of 

 straight short hair ; texture coarse, and looks rusty ; head 

 heavy and wise-looking, large, and thickly covered with 

 long curly hair ; limbs stout and strong, well-webbed feet, 

 tail docked but not too short. They are rather above 

 the medium size and are strong, compact dogs, and 

 are exceedingly intelligent and tractable, capable of being 

 trained to almost anything both in the way of tricks and 

 with the gun. In temperament they are lively and cheerful, 

 make excellent companions, and are rarely sulky or vicious.' 

 Morris, in his ' Dogs and their Doings,' relates that a 

 retriever saved the life of a boy in Staffordshire. He was 

 playing on the bank of the Caulden Canal, near Hanley, 

 when he accidentally fell into the water. According to the 

 boy's own account he was sinking the second time, when 

 a retriever, belonging to a grocer at Hanley, seeing him 

 in the water, sprang in to his rescue, seized the back 

 of his waistcoat, and dragged him to land. The poor little 

 fellow soon recovered himself and walked home. The dog 

 walked by his side till he reached his father's door, and then, 

 with a self-congratulatory wag of his tail, trotted home. 



Russian Setters 



These are very useful dogs ; they are deep liver in colour, 

 curly-coated, or fawn with white toes and white chests. 

 They have the appearance of a large Bedlingtou terrier. 

 They possess a perfection of nose ; in extreme heat, wet, 

 or cold it never seems to vary, and they are most valuable 

 to sportsmen on that account. 



St. Bepnapds 



The mission of these dogs is to save life. These heroic 

 animals are known all over the world for benevolence and 

 daring courage. The instinctive faculty is that of saving 



