Excerpt from The Sporting Dog ON a Virginia day, the winter of 186 3, a human mite peeped through a fence of chestnut rails at the concord of a redhot Confederate landowner and a Federal officer over an old white setter and a bevy of quail, bunch of pah'tridges, they said. Every year since, the pupil has been under the tuition of men who know sporting dogs. Amateurs, professionals, scientists, market-hunt ers, dog-thieves, financiers, jurists, loafers, and clubmen; Bluenoses, Tarh'eels, Hoosiers, Cana dians, Britishers, ...
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Excerpt from The Sporting Dog ON a Virginia day, the winter of 186 3, a human mite peeped through a fence of chestnut rails at the concord of a redhot Confederate landowner and a Federal officer over an old white setter and a bevy of quail, bunch of pah'tridges, they said. Every year since, the pupil has been under the tuition of men who know sporting dogs. Amateurs, professionals, scientists, market-hunt ers, dog-thieves, financiers, jurists, loafers, and clubmen; Bluenoses, Tarh'eels, Hoosiers, Cana dians, Britishers, Germans, Populists, and Squaw men, - for the unfailing indulgence with which they have diminished his ignorance, he tenders acknowledgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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