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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XXII
THE
POINTER
It
has
never
been
made
quite
clear
in
history
why
the
Spaniards
had
a
dog
that
was
very
remarkable
for
pointing
all
kinds
of
game.
They
have
always
been
a
pleasure-loving
people,
certainly,
but
more
inclined
to
bull-fighting
than
field-craft,
and
yet
as
early
as
1600
they
must
have
had
a
better
dog
for
game-finding
than
could
have
been
found
in
any
other
part
of
the
world.
Singularly
enough,
too,
the
most
esteemed
breeds
in
many
countries
can
be
traced
from
the
same
source,
such
as
the
Russian
Pointer,
the
German
Pointer,
the
French
double-nosed
Griffon,
and,
far
more
important
still,
the
English
Pointer.
A
view
has
been
taken
that
the
Spanish
double-nosed
Pointer
was
introduced
into
England
about
two
hundred
years
ago,
when
fire-arms
were
beginning
to
be
popular
for
fowling
purposes.
Setters
and
Spaniels
had
been
used
to
find
and
drive
birds
into
nets,
but
as
the
Spanish
Pointer
became
known
it
was
apparently
considered
that
he
alone
had
the
capacity
to
find
game
for
the
gun.
This
must
have
been
towards
the
end
of
the
seventeenth
century,
and
for
the
next
fifty
years
at
least
something
very
slow
was
wanted
to
meet
the
necessities
of
the
old-fashioned
flintlock
gun,
which
occupied
many
minutes
in
loading
and
getting
into
position.
Improvements
came
by
degrees,
until
they
set
in
very
rapidly,
but
probably
by
1750,
when
hunting
had
progressed
a
good
deal,
and
pace
was
increased
in
all
pastimes,
the
old-fashioned
Pointer
was
voted
a
nuisance
through
his
extreme
caution
and
tortoise-like
movements.
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