Excerpt from Shooting, Yachting, and Sea-Fishing Trips, Vol. 2 of 2: At Home and on the Continent, Second Series As to the dogs the professional shooters use, they are of no particular breed. In fact it seems that any kind of dog will do for them, provided they have sufficient nose to lead them up to game. They don't care whether they point, stand, crouch, or run in; but by dint of killing a lot of game to them, and enforcing orders, the men come to such a thorough understanding with their animals that lucky is the game that escapes them both. Of course their dogs are thoroughly well broken to retrieve any distance, by land or water, whatever may be their other qualifications. Those chasseurs de profession who live in a hare country, have their dogs generally high on legs, and of a breed but faintly traceable to any peculiar race. Some look like harriers, some like sheep-dogs, some like half-bred setters and lurchers; but they are one and all swift and courageous. Many hares are caught by these dogs and brought to their masters, even if the hares have not been fired at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.