The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . 4 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. thirty birds or more were flushed, out of which Isaw perhaps twelve or fourteen rise, and only threeat the actual moment of pulling the trigger. Yetmy bag was ten, the dog ha\-ing retrieved sevenwhich neither I nor my cartridge-carrier knew tohave been killed. There are, of course, covertswhich are low, and where the shooting is com-paratively, if not positively, easy, but they aremostlv preserved or far off, and in the early part ofthe season, especially with the south winds which soon as th
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . 4 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. thirty birds or more were flushed, out of which Isaw perhaps twelve or fourteen rise, and only threeat the actual moment of pulling the trigger. Yetmy bag was ten, the dog ha\-ing retrieved sevenwhich neither I nor my cartridge-carrier knew tohave been killed. There are, of course, covertswhich are low, and where the shooting is com-paratively, if not positively, easy, but they aremostlv preserved or far off, and in the early part ofthe season, especially with the south winds which soon as the tinkling ceases it may be evident thathe is on point. Without some such guide it wouldbe impossible to keep in touch with a dog in covertwhere he is not visible at more than five or tenyards distance. A decent dog will, of course,always hold his point until his master arrives onthe scene. It might be thought that the tinklewould scare the cock, but experience has provedthis not to be the case, perhaps owing to the factof sheep and cattle often wearing similar bells. On. LUNCH TIME.(Photo: ) prevail throughout November, the cock seem toprefer the thickest brakes of oak and thorn. All the best country-bred dogs have remotestrains of foreign blood in them, but often bearvery slight resemblance to our ideals of pointersor setters. The photographs shew two typicalcountry-breds, one of which looks more like ahound than a pointer, till she straightens out onpoint, while the other carries his tail like a Pome-ranian whilst walking, but lowers it into orthodoxposition when questing or setting. It is seldomeither of these two will pass a cock, dead or alive,within twenty or thirty yards in the thickest cover,and both can be relied upon to retrieve infalliblyand tenderlv to hand under almost any circum-stances. They were trained by village professionalsportsmen, and if one of these men can be per-suaded to part with his dog, it will generally befound a much better inves
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