Chapters on Animals. 



ing dog has always an intense contempt for a bad sports- 

 man, so that a man who cannot shoot with a decent degree 

 of slcill does best, lilce a miserable amateur vioUnist, to 

 abstain from practising altogether. 



There are thousands of anecdotes illustrating the won- 

 derful affection which dogs bear to their masters, and as 

 the world goes on thousands of other examples will be 





Pointers. 



Pen drawing after Karl Bodmer, by D. Munro. 



recorded, but no one will ever know the full marvel of that 

 immense love and devotion. It is inexhaustible, Hke the 

 beauty of what is most beautiful in nature, hke the glory 

 of sunsets and the rich abundance of that natural loveli- 

 ness which poets and artists can never quite reveal. We do 

 not know the depth of it even in the dogs we have always 

 with us. I have one who is neither so intelligent nor so 

 affectionate as others I have known, and to my human 

 ignorance it seemed that he did not love me very much. 



