THE POINTER. 197 
loin, or thick club tail, which are equally characteristic of 
the breed. 
So well established is this creed in my part of the 
country, that a neighbor of mine told me the other day, 
with great glee and exultation, that he had got a double- 
nosed setter, the only one of that kind he had ever seen, 
though he had seen many pointers such. 
He was urgent to know whether I had ever seen a 
double-nosed setter, and was not a little astonished when I 
replied that I never had, and sincerely hoped I never 
should; for that, while in a pointer it is simply a deform- 
ity, of no actual consequence, in a setter it isa certain 
indication of a cross of Spanish pointer blood ; about the 
worst cross imaginable. 
It may be added, that the Spanish pointer is not 
unfrequently ill-tempered and surly. 
Of the action of pointers in the field, whereby to judge 
of them, I shall speak hereafter, under the head of Field 
Management. 
