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In the month of March, 1836, a valuable pointer dog was sent to Mr. Adam of Beaufort, quite emaciated, with total loss of appetite and with a large fungus haematodes about the middle of the right side of his neck. It had begun to appear about five months before, and was not at first larger than a pea. Mr.
Drawing a cunningly wrought key from his pocket-pouch, he removed the cover of the right-hand dial of the controlling destination compass. For a moment he studied the construction of the mechanism beneath. Then he returned the dial to its place, set the pointer, and removed it again to note the resultant change in the position of the parts affected by the act. A smile crossed his lips.
A young pointer, when it first scents game, apparently cannot help pointing. A squirrel in a cage who pats the nuts which it cannot eat, as if to bury them in the ground, can hardly be thought to act thus, either from pleasure or pain. Hence the common assumption that men must be impelled to every action by experiencing some pleasure or pain may be erroneous.
During the period of tormenting doubt and this was by no means a short one when the pointer of the scales oscillated before me in perfect uncertainty between the pro and the con, and when any fact leading to a quick decision would have been most welcome to me, I took no small pains to detect some such contradictions among the inferences as to the class of Crustacea furnished by the Darwinian theory.
"Sleeplishness's no actual proof . . . but it's a pointer. Th' iron's getthin' warrm eyah! d d warrm! . . . but we cannot shtrike yet." But a truce to this strain; for my soul it is sad, To think that a heart in humanity clad Should make, like the brutes, such a desolate end, And depart from the light without leaving a friend. Bear soft his bones over the stones!
'Ah! you should keep dogs fine animals sagacious creatures dog of my own once pointer surprising instinct out shooting one day entering inclosure whistled dog stopped whistled again Ponto no go; stock still called him Ponto, Ponto wouldn't move dog transfixed staring at a board looked up, saw an inscription "Gamekeeper has orders to shoot all dogs found in this inclosure" wouldn't pass it wonderful dog valuable dog that very.
"We can whip everything but our own stomachs," replied Thurstane. "We have as much food as those devils." "But water?" suggested the forethoughted West Pointer. It was a horrible doubt, for if there was no water in the enclosure, they were doomed to speedy and cruel death, unless they could beat the Indians in the field and drive them away from the rivulet.
For some time she was not discovered, and not till he appeared would she quit her post, when, the birds rising, some of them were shot; but the steady pointer was so stiff when thus relieved that she could scarcely move. Here is an example which my young readers should endeavour to follow when they have a duty, however irksome, to perform. Remain steadily at your post; let nothing draw you away.
In short, he was one of those who lie still and wait, like the crafty pointer dogs that creep along the grass, hunting out game for others to shoot down for them, and devouring the spoil with a keener relish than the noble hound that makes the forest ring as he plunges upon his prey.
It is a melancholy sight to see the "Wilderness" behind the house, still adorned with busts and urns, and the graves of favourite dogs, which still bear the epitaphs written by Cowper on Sir John Throckmorton's pointer and Lady Throckmorton's pet spaniel.
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