Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . roared and barked in chorus, waving their arms as if ordering the hunteraway. Seeing that no harm was intended, they came closer, their curiositygetting the better of their caution. The bright buttons on his clothes seemedto cause them great delight. Suddenly he found that one soko had crept upbehind him and was fingering his gun-case and chattering loudly. All theother sokos set up loud cries, and the man, believing he was about to be at-tacked, fired at the largest soko. The poor beast fell dead while the othersscampered off, leaving the hunter
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . roared and barked in chorus, waving their arms as if ordering the hunteraway. Seeing that no harm was intended, they came closer, their curiositygetting the better of their caution. The bright buttons on his clothes seemedto cause them great delight. Suddenly he found that one soko had crept upbehind him and was fingering his gun-case and chattering loudly. All theother sokos set up loud cries, and the man, believing he was about to be at-tacked, fired at the largest soko. The poor beast fell dead while the othersscampered off, leaving the hunter DOGS OF ALL CLASSES Dogs can roughly be divided into four classes. There are the huntingdogs; the toy or pet dogs; the working dogs and the big dogs which areneither workers nor hunters, and last but not least the noble army ofnondescript mongrels. Now it is impossible to say which isthe greatest of dogs, for the simple reasonthat one breed is thought more of in onecountry, while the people of the nextnation prefer another kind of canine-Each has its uses and is great in its own place Let us first look over some of the hunting dogs. Everyone who has done much shooting knows what a treasurea good dog is. The pointers and setters go entirely by nose, a proof of ^\?hichis that when puppies they chase shadows of birds and never look overheardfor the cause. Again, when first taken into the field to pomt game birds,they are likely to walk right over the crouching coveys. The spaniels andretreivers are the best water dogs, but they are not as much in vogue in theUnited States as in England
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