THE POINTER. 
Tus dog, which it may be admitted, whatever its intrin- 
sic or comparative merits, is the most suitable, for many 
reasons, to the use of the young sportsman, is not, at least 
in its present form, an original or natural animal. 
This is the more worthy of remark, because many 
modern writers, those more particularly who are opposed 
to the setter, have endeavored to discredit the latter by 
overlauding its rival, as if the pointer were the type, and 
the setter an offshoot produced from it, by some process 
of crossing. 
So far, however, is this from being true, that the 
pointer is itself a manufactured subvariety, although now 
so well established, that it appears capable of reproduction, 
like for like, even to the peculiar characteristics of indi- 
