Outing . sedsuccessfully in producing a fine, high-couraged and symmetrical dog that willtackle big game anywhere. So suc-cessful has this now established breedbecome that you meet them by the score,and fine fellows they are, but hardly thecompanions I should choose for the streetsof London or New York, as many do, es-pecially ladies. Being somewhat of autilitarian, I should say when we start forthe Rockies or the Russian steppes letus by no means go unprovided with anEarl of Warwick or some equally beau-tiful specimen of his breed. Our next illustration is that of thepointer Champion Nan, and
Outing . sedsuccessfully in producing a fine, high-couraged and symmetrical dog that willtackle big game anywhere. So suc-cessful has this now established breedbecome that you meet them by the score,and fine fellows they are, but hardly thecompanions I should choose for the streetsof London or New York, as many do, es-pecially ladies. Being somewhat of autilitarian, I should say when we start forthe Rockies or the Russian steppes letus by no means go unprovided with anEarl of Warwick or some equally beau-tiful specimen of his breed. Our next illustration is that of thepointer Champion Nan, and no one withan eye to the points of a dog can denyher the merit which she has pre-eminent-ly gained in many a show contest. Thatpointers should still hold such a for-ward place in our show yards is due mainlyto the fact of their inherent beauty ofform and outline, for practically speakingthe stubble and turnip fields in swellcounties, where partridges abound, areless and less their practice ground, as the. CHAMPION NAN. 92 OUTING FOR NOVEMBER. fashion of modern shooting inclines moreand more to walking up to birds in line,or deceiving them with beaters. To get abig bag of partridges with dogs is, I mustconfess, a thing that few, except the bestsportsman, now attain to ; consequentlymany of these beautiful show dogs seldomor never are put to a practical test. True, the institution of field trials, inwhich pointers and setters merits can beprettily judged, are becoming in somemeasure a substitute for being shot overwith guns ; but, alas ! how many a hand-some pointer of the show yard or fieldtrial ground turns out a gun-shy brute, if
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