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Dove, a white setter, belonging to a near relation of mine, (the left-hand dog in the engraving illustrating 540, is considered extremely like her,) did, spontaneously, that which
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Fan only consented to do after much entreaty. My relation, shooting on the banks of the Forth, killed a partridge that was flying across the river. As he had no retriever with him he almost regretted having fired; but, to his surprise,
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Dove volunteered jumping into the water; made her way to the bird with a sort of steamboat paddle action,--for I verily believe it was the first time she had attempted to swim,--seized it, and, returning with it to the shore, deposited it safely on the bank. She never had retrieved before, and is not particularly good at