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wet, and dauntless beyond any other in covert, but more 
susceptible of heat and thirst than the others of his race. 
He is, I think, rather taller than the English or Irish 
dog, muscular and bony ; his head is shorter and roundcr 
than that of his family, and, like ‘the rest of his body, is 
so completely covered with long, woolly, matted locks, 
tangled and curly like those of the water-poodle, only 
ten times more so, that he can hardly see out of his 
eyes. 
His color is black, black and white, or pale lemon and 
white. I never saw one of any other color. I never have 
seen a pure one, though I once owned a half breed—a 
most superior animal—in America, nor are they common 
or easily attainable in England. 
I learned to shoot over one in England, which I was 
permitted to take out alone, because it was well known 
that “ Henry could not spoil Charon;” and almost every 
thing that I know of shooting that old Russian taught me. 
He would not drop to shot, if a bird were killed, but dashed 
right in to fetch; yet I never saw him flush a bird of a 
scattered covey in my life; for if the fresh birds lay 
between him and those killed, he would set them all one 
by one. In the same way, if a hare were wounded, which 
he knew by the eye by some indescribable sign which no 
man could descry, he always chased and never failed to 
retrieve him. If he were missed or went away without a 
shot, he would charge steadily enough; but if two or 
three shots were missed in succession, particularly in the 
first of the morning, home he went in disgust, in spite of 
all threats or coaxing. : 
