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DOMESTICATED DOGS. 



possible to throw them into "the point," by using the word 

 corresponding with " toho," in the language of the corresponding 

 countries. This was first made known to me at the Paris Dog 

 Show of 1865, when the exhibitor of a French braque, on my 

 asking if his dog was steady, threw him into a very perfect 

 state of catalepsy by a single word. Our modern dogs are seldom 

 so "full of point" as this, having, no doubt, lost the state of 



The Spanish Pointer. 



nervous system in which it resides by crossing with the fox- 

 hound or greyhound. In some breeds, however, it still exists; 

 but since the pointer has been used for grouse more than par- 

 tridge, it has become very rare. Upwards of forty years ago, I 

 saw six brace of pointers taken out by Lord Foley's keeper in 

 Worcestershire, all of which pointed and backed on the slightest 



