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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 RETRIEVER. 
On the Chesapeake. In Great Britain. In Newfoundland. The Labradorean 
the pure St. Johns; their unrivalled qualities; their sagacity . 216-221 
THE HOUND. 
The Talbot. The Sleuth hound. Shakspeare’s type. Somerville’s type. In 
George III.’s time. Stonehenge’s views. The improved English hound. 
How bred. The southern hound. The American fox-hound. Color of 
hounds. English stag-hound; English fox-hound; yeseiamaiie: English 
beagle; Scottish deer-hound. Howbred . . «2224984 
Kennet ManaGEmMent.—Absurd dog-laws. Fete ihe Se ereean ee 
liness—beds—food—water—exercise—special remedies —for fleas and vermin 
—to harden the feet—for rheumatism. Lewis—Blaine—Youatt—Mayhew 
on the dog. The last preferred. Emetics—purgatives—for worms-— for poi- 
son—for snake bites—for epileptic fit. Takeadvice. . . 285-248 
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; Co]. Hutchinson ; fast dogs; steady dogs; the check.cord; 
dogs racing; beating at a trot; the slow pointer; down wind; 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 
BAY 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 ict them. eupe: guns for. Anecdotes, 
Endofseason .  . 5 Bo ote - + 271-281 
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 
