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in July last (1904) of carrying the camera to get a snapshot. Nevertheless 
we did so and within fifteen minutes’ walk of Hackensack the brace of Irish 
setters pointed a half-fledged trio of woodcock in a swampy hollow. These we 
carried out to the sunlight and having taken snapshots of them, returned them 
to their nesting ground. These dogs seem to have no lack of point, but per- 
haps it is the way they are educated. Mr. Clements dwells on this part of 
the dog’s work, and to make up for the scarcity of game in his neighbour- 
hood his dogs are made to point the dead bird. ‘Where there is so little 
pointing you have to give them all you can,” is the way he puts it. “So 
far as my experience goes,” Mr. Clements says, “and I have owned a good 
many English setters and also a few pointers, besides the Irish setters, I 
find the Irish no harder to handle. Mine are from parents that have been 
worked for several generations, all good field dogs and given plenty of work, 
and I think that in such a case you can look for quick development. Some 
of the English setters I have owned were from field-trials-winning parents, 
but I have only had one that I liked as well as my Irish. That was my 
old dog Indicator, by Buckellew out of Lady May. I aim to get a dog 
that looks well when at work, high-headed, a good ranger and fast, though 
taught to hunt close and slow when wanted. 
“One of my early Irish dogs was Scamp, who was a son of Glencho, 
and was whelped as far back as December, 1883. I shot over him next 
fall, so he did not take long to develop. He was about as easy a dog to train 
as I ever handled. It took only five days to make him a perfect retriever 
of live or dead birds from land or water. He seemed to be equally good 
on woodcock, snipe, grouse or quail, and I refused $250 for him. I had 
another good dog in Lance. I thought him good looking enough to enter 
at New York show and he did fairly well. There was no end of point in 
him and he retrieved exceedingly well. I will give you some of my diary 
entries about Lance: July 1, 1885, at Lodi, N. J., on woodcock, began 
with a flush and then scored nine points without a mistake. Some time 
later I took him to Catasauqua, for quail, and out of forty points one was 
false and twice he flushed. Here is another day on woodcock, some years 
later: July 1, 1889, between Woodridge and Hackensack, made twenty- . 
two points on woodcock. One of the cock he flushed twice. He was 
hunted nineteen days out of twenty-one at White Creek, Washington 
County, N. Y., and was fresh and strong every day of the entire time. He 
would do a peculiar thing if he was on a point and could not see me or I 
