Shooting Dogs 



breaking a young dog yourself, but if you 

 have none of these qualities you had better 

 hand him over to the care of some trust- 

 worthy keeper, to whom you may have to 

 pay a fee ranging from £5 to £10, in addition 

 to a small weekly charge for his keep. This 

 would apply to setters or pointers, the charge 

 for breaking a spaniel or retriever being not 

 more than half. 



As the training of pointers and setters 

 proceeds upon identical lines we may as well 

 deal with them as one, without entering into 

 any controversy as to which is the more 

 useful of the two. If I had to choose myself 

 the probability is that the setter would gain 

 the vote. No matter what kind you have, 

 he is a beautiful animal, and, when the 

 shooting days are over, man need want no 

 better or more intelligent companion. For 

 this reason, the man who loves a dog, quite 

 apart from the work that is required of him, 

 would be more likely to take a setter. A 

 setter, too, being better feathered between 



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