Download or read book History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 written by Rawdon B. Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2: Sporting Division New English sportsmen required something better. The old strain tired much, and became slow at the end of a day's heavy work; and it lacked persever ance generally. So, it was said, a cross was resorted to. History tells us this was found with the foxhound, and that the much quoted sports man, Colonel Thornton, of Yorkshire, was the first man to bring the improved dog prominently to the notice of the public. This might be so or not, we fancy not; for, about the Same period, pointers, far removed from the imported Spanish dog in appear ance, were not at all uncommon in England, and they could easily have been brought over from France. In any case, if Colonel Thornton was not actually the maker of the modern English pointer, he had the credit of being so, and, sportsman though he was, contrived to get big prices for some of his dogs, and obtain a reputation for them as being the best in England. 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.