Chapter 15

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.