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Show Hie First II lulling, Hog, It Is, by the way, u curious thing that the belter should not have been used with the gun till lung after the pointer's utility lu this way was recognized, rec-ognized, Tho fcportHiiian of Kdward IH.'s time who bought pheasants nud partridges lu nets depended for assistance assist-ance in lindlug his game on a dog of some sort which was taught to "sit" or "set;" but not until the middle of the eighteenth century or thereabouts was the setter much used with the gun. The pointer, on the other hand, wus imported from Spain honiewhero about the beginning of the eighteenth century, at tho tliuu when progressive gunners were beginning to realize that they could shoot birds Hying; and the Spanish pointer, or double-nosed pointer point-er us be Is called by old writers, became be-came the gun dog nt once. Colonel Thomas Thornton, of Thornton Hoyal, who devoted his life to Held sports, was tho mini who remodeled tho ancestor an-cestor of tho modern pointer. Ho considered con-sidered the dog of his day too slow, and by crossing the Spanish pointer with the foxhound, obtained greater speed nud stamina, but nt some loss of noso and docility. Outing, |