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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
and again seized him by the throat. The stag was soon after 
taken out of the pool dead/' 
We think it very probable that the Irish greyhound is 
only a variety of the same stock as the Highland greyhound. 
The former has much smoother hair than the Scottish breed. 
SECTION IL—DOGS USED IN SHOOTING 
THE ENGLISH POINTER. 
The Spanish pointer is the stock from which our English 
pointer was derived. He is much lighter in form, and 
much more rapid in his movements. He was originally 
produced by a cross of the Spanish pointer and the fox¬ 
hound, and afterwards re-crossed with the harrier. He is 
now to be met with of a variety of sizes; but it has been 
found that when pointers are too large, they are far less 
active than those which are smaller; but in this particular 
there is a variety of tastes. 
The pointer is possessed of a beautiful symmetry of frame ; 
and in this respect is perhaps the most proportionably 
formed of all the canine race. His docility and pliability of 
temper are truly astonishing. He enjoys the sense of smell¬ 
ing in an exquisite degree. 
In proportion as the breed of pointers diverge in blood 
from their Spanish progenitor, the difficulty of training them 
is experienced, and also that steadiness of the original, which 
renders them stanch for the field. 
Pointers are never considered complete in training unless 
they are perfectly stanch to bird, dog, and gun; which im¬ 
plies, first , standing singly to a bird or covey ; secondly , to 
backing or pointing the moment he perceives another dog to 
stand at game; and thirdly, not to stir from his own point 
at the rising of any bird, or the firing of any gun in ibf 
