Chapter Xv.--638.

SETTER TO RETRIEVE. BLOODHOUNDS. RETRIEVERS TO "BEAT." WOUNDED WILD FOWL RETRIEVED FIRST.

292. Setter to retrieve; obtain thereby in one Dog the services of two; necessity of having some Dog that retrieves.

293. Predilection for Setters confessed; Reasons given.

294. One Dog only to retrieve.

295. Let "retrieving" be done by "Finder."

296. Seeking Dead with two Dogs; Winged Bird searched for in direction of covey's flight.

297. Scent differs of wounded and unwounded Birds.

298. Three dead Snipe lifted in succession; Setter that stood fresh Birds while carrying a dead one; Pointer that pointed Partridge while carrying a Hare; Retriever refusing to relinquish chase of wounded Hare.

299. Injudiciousness of retrieving Setter pointing dead.

300. Argument against employing retrieving Setters holds against using regular Retrievers.

301. Regular Retrievers to beat; its advantages; one Dog does the duty of two.

302. Water Retrievers, or Water Spaniels, to retrieve crippled before picking up dead Wild Fowl; how taught.

303. None of these accomplishments so difficult to teach as a good range.

304. Might be taught by your Gamekeeper, but not to be expected of regular Breaker.

DOG-BREAKING.