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advancing when tlie scent announces their proximity to the object 
of their search. It is then that they are said to be pointing 
or setting . Setters generally lie down and wait for the sports- 
man ; Pointers, on the other hand, stand. W ell-broken Dogs 
will remain in their position for many minutes. 
Among the Running Dogs, it is necessary to mention the Grey- 
hound, the Hounds of Saintonge and of Poitou, English Fox- 
hounds, Harriers and Beagles, Turnspits, Bull-dogs, Mastiffs, &c. 
Fig. 163.— Large French Water Spaniel." 
The principal breeds of the second class of Sporting Dogs are — 
Pointers, Setters, Land Spaniels, and Water Spaniels, which have 
given rise, through crossing, to a great number of varieties. 
The training of Sporting Dogs requires an amount of attention 
and preparation that the limits of this work will not allow us to 
notice. It may he remarked that it is necessary to commence 
when they are about four or five months old : this is called 
house-breaking. Their training should be discontinued at the 
period of distemper, which is generally towards the seventh or 
