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of service to be got out of him, to two pointers, and for 
the satisfactory style of doing the work, and the cheerful 
endurance of the toil without suffering, yet more superior. 
On this subject, I shall quote the brief opinion of * a 
gentleman, a large breeder of sporting dogs,” from a work 
of “ Craven’s,” which I feel myself the more justified in 
doing that he often, and once in this very work, borrows 
from me, not only not rendering credit where it is due, but 
inventing a “ Mrs. Harris” in the shape of an American 
correspondent, to bear the weight of my offendings. 
“T. have tried all sorts,” says he, “ and at last fixed on 
a well-bred setter as the most useful. I say well-bred, for 
not many of the dogs with feathered sterns, which one 
sees nowadays, are worthy of the ‘name of setter. Pointer 
fanciers object to setters on account of their requiring 
more water, but there are generally sufficient springs and 
peat-holes on the moors for them, and even in the early 
part of September a horsepond or ditch is to be met with 
often enough. For covert or snipe-shooting the setter is 
far superior ; facing the thorns in the covert, and the wet 
in the bogs, without coming to heel shivering like a pig 
with the ague. I have always found, too, that setters, 
when well broke, are finer tempered, and not so éasily 
cowed as pointers. Should they get an unlucky unde- 
served kick, Don, the setter, wags his tail, and forgets 
it much sooner than Carlo, the pointer. My shooting, 
lying near the moors, takes in every description of coun- 
try, and I always find, that after a good, rough day, the 
setter will out-tire the pointer, though, perhaps, not start 
quite so flash in the morning. 
