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shot. With shot. At small birds. To judge of errors. Allowance for mo- 
tion. Why necessary. How to acquire the trick. Practice for flying shots. 
For running shots. Physical disabilities. To learn rifle shooting. Disper- 
sion of a shot-charge. Directness of a ball. Necessity of perfect aim. 
Steadiness. How to take aim; rest-firing bad practice. Rifle clubs. Al- 
lowance for motion of objects. How to allow. For a cross wind—long 
ranges. Rifle shooting and shooting flying nearly incompatible; why so; 
shooting, riding, and to speak truth, must be learned—young . 128-153 
THE DOG. 
His use and qualities; kind usage of; cruelty to, exploded. House-dogs not 
good field-dogs; why. Intelligence; how cultivated. Punishment; when, 
and how, needed; in breaking; when broken; the whip—how to be used. 
kicking dogs—an infamy. Old dogs, when to be flogged; when to be rated. 
Dinks and Mayhew. Food and condition. Various breeds of sporting dogs. 
Sporting authorities—Hutchinson, Scrope, Colquhoun, Hawker. English- 
broke dogs. English-bred dogs. Russian setters . « » 154164 
THE SETTER. 
His excellences, style, beauty, and courage. His temper. Compared with the 
pointer. Craven's opinion. My own opinion. In summer shooting; 
autumn shooting. Grouse shooting on the hills; on the prairies. Absurd 
plan for breeding setters. Pointing, formerly an acquired trick, now an in- 
stinct. Backing the same. Whatisasetter? Classification of dogs. The 
spaniel; various breeds of—the Clumber—the King Charles—the New- 
foundland. First mention of setters. First breaking of spaniels to set. 
Setters, till of late, called spaniels. The English setter; his points, hia 
qualities, his beauty. The Irish setter; his points, his color, his nose, his 
temper. The Russian setter; his points, his docility, his endurance, his 
color. Rare in America. “Old Charon.” Style and point of Russians. 
Range of setters. American dog-breakers—an error. Beating and quarter- 
ing. Duration of a dog. Dog poisoning in Jersey. Denks on the dog. 
Pointing vs. setting. Color of eee Setters. The Webster setters, The 
Harewood setters . . . . 8 eee 165-187 
THE POINTER. 
Not anatural dog. Original type of. The Spanish pointer. The improved 
English pointer. Two varieties. Best form. Excellences of. Defects 
of. Best for young sportsmen. Stonehenge. Points of pointers. Col- 
ors of pointers. French pointers. Double-nosed pointers. Temper of 
pointers . . ee A 7 % . ri . - 188-197 
THE COCKING-SPANIEL. 
Best for woodcock. Preferable for covert-shooting to pointers or setters. Why 
so. For quail shooting. Difficulty of breaking cockers. Little used in Amer- 
ica. The Carrollton breed. The cocker. The springer. The Clumber. 
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