Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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hem. The puppies are usuallywalked by the young sportsmen at theirhomes, and a prize is given every winterhalf for the best walked Beagle. Theappointment of the Master used to restwith the Captain of the Boats, but thiscustom has fallen into abeyance. He actsas huntsman and is assisted by three whips.All four wear brown velveteen coats, andsome seventy boys are allowed to run withthem. There were at one period two packs,a Colleger and an Oppidan, but they wereamalgamated in 1866, and now any boymay put his name down to join, his admis-sion being determined by the Master. Thesubscription is thirty shillings, reduced tofifteen shillings at half-term. The Beaglesrun every half-holiday during the Easterhalf, and there is usually a good field. Beagles are not always looked upon withfavour by the authorities at Eton, andattempts have occasionally been made tostop the sport; but it is well disciplined,and there is no doubt that it provides anexcellent training for our future Fox-hunters. 23^
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POINTERS AT SCHOOL ON THE MOORS.Photograph by C. Rcid, Wishaw. CHAPTER XXIII.THE POINTER. BY G. S. LOWE. Sportsman, sir? asked Mr. Jingle, abruptly turning to Mr. Winkle A little, sir, replied that gentleman. Fine pursuit, sir, fine pursuit. Dogs, sir ? Not just now, said Mr. Winkle. Ah ! you should keep dogs—/;;/: animals—sagacious creaturesPointer—surprising instinct. ■dog of my own once—Pickwick Papers. IT has never been made quite clear inhistory why the Spaniards had a dogthat was very remarkable for pointingnil kinds of game. They have always beena pleasure-loving people, certainly, butmore inclined to bull-fighting than field-craft, and yet as early as 1600 they musthave had a better dog for game-findingthan could have been found in any otherpart of the world. Singularly enough, too,the most esteemed breeds in many countriescan be traced from the same source, suchas the Russian Pointer, the German Pointer,the French double-nosed Griffon, and. farmore important still,

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