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DOGS. 
The pointer, of which there are the Spanish and English, is so called from 
his habit of pointing at game when he scents it, and is a desirable dog. It 
ranges the fields until it scents the bird lying close on the ground. It then 
remains still, as if carved in stone, every limb fixed, and the tail pointing 
straight behind it. In this attitude it remains until the gun is discharged, 
reloaded, and the sportsman has reached the place where the bird sprung. 
It then eagerly searches for the game, and brings the bird in its mouth. 
THE POINTER. 
There are many anecdotes of its intelligence, among which the following 
is not the least interesting: 
“In 1829, Mr. J. Webster was out on a shooting party, when a female 
pointer, having traversed the field which the sportsmen were then in, pro¬ 
ceeded to a wall, and, just as she made the leap, got the scent of some par¬ 
tridges on the opposite side of the wall. She hung by her fore-feet until 
the sportsmen came up ; in which situation, while they were at some dis¬ 
tance, it appeared to them that she had got her leg fastened among the 
stone3 of the wall, and was unable to extricate herself. But on coming up 
to her, they found that this singular circumstance proceeded from her 
caution, lest she should flush the birds, and that she had thus purposely 
suspended herself in place of completing her leap.” 
The greyhound and deerhound resemble each other with only this differ¬ 
ence—the former having a sleek, and the latter a rough coat. They aro 
long, slender, and elegant dogs, of great swiftness and agility; but generally 
