184 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
the world, and is exactly as sure—almost surer than any 
—to realize it; since there is always a greater demand. 
than there is supply; and since gentlemen, as opposed to 
dealers, are rarely, if ever, tempted by price to part with 
animals which suit them. Many sportsmen would regard 
an offer as an affront, akin to that of proposing to pur- 
chase his family plate or his family pictures. 
The best rule for teaching a dog to quarter his ground, 
and, when taught, to keep him at it, will be found in 
“ Dinks on the Dog,” as on breaking generally. 
The above precepts for choosing a dog by his action 
are equally referable to the setter and the pointer, although 
the latter is something slower, steadier, and closer in his 
ranging. Otherwise, there is no difference in their style 
of finding or pointing game. For it is a singular thing 
that in America, for some reason which I cannot compre- 
hend or conceive, and for which I never heard so much as 
a plausible conjecture, the pointer and setter lose the dis- 
tinctive action whence they derive their distinctive names. 
In England the pointer invariably stands his game, 
and almost invariably points it, by raising sometimes a 
fore leg, sometimes a hind leg. 
There the setter, if not invariably, at least nine times 
out of ten sets his game, falling prostrate as if shot, and 
lying so close as often to show only the tip of his erected 
flag above the stubble or turnips. I have often had a 
brace of setters go down so suddenly, when shooting in 
high turnips or potatoe ridges, the eye being casually off 
them at the moment, that it required some trouble to find 
them. When very close on their game good setters never 
