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CHAPTER IV. 



DOMESTICATED DOGS FINDING THEIR GAME BY SCENT, BUT NOT 

 KILLING IT, BEING CHIEFLY USED IN AID OF THE GUN. 



i. The Spanish Pointer — 2. The Modern English Pointer— 3. The Portuguese 

 Pointer— 4. The French Pointer— 5. The Dalmatian— 6. The Setter : (a) 

 English ; (b) Irish ; (c) Black and Tan or Gordon ; (r>) "Welsh ; (1) 

 Russian— 7. The Field Spaniel : (a) The Clumber ; (b) The Sussex ; (c) 

 The Norfolk ; (d) The Modem Cocker— 8. The Water-Spaniel : (a) The 

 Southern Irish ; (b) The Northern ; (c) The English— 9. The Poodle. 



I.— THE SPANISH POINTER. 



As in most, and indeed all other breeds of the dog, the origin of 

 the Spanish pointer is lost in obscurity. As far as I know, there 

 is no proof that the pointer originated in Spain ; but that he is not 

 in a state of nature is clear, and therefore some one people must 

 have first taught him to manifest his peculiar gift. No wild 

 dog is in existence in which the slightest tendency to point 

 instead of chasing his game is displayed, and that it can be taught 

 artificially is shown in the setting spaniel, now called the setter, 

 and even in the pig which a Hampshire gamekeeper once taught 

 this accomplishment. But though the spaniel, the Newfoundland, 

 and the terrier, have often been taught to point, they none of 

 them show that rigid and cataleptic condition of the whole body 

 which is the peculiar characteristic of the pointer, and is so 

 strongly displayed in the Spanish and French pointers, that it is 



