Quintessence

There are no bird dogs prettier than Elhew poinIters, and no pointers prettier than Daniel Riviera's.

Young Maggie just oozes style, at home and in the field , Aad his slightly older male Ferd, masked against the ubiquitous and deadly foxheads that almost killed him last year {"California, land of killer grass")

And Daniel's new second gun, fitted and modified for him by Diggory Haddoke, 16 bore Holloway and Naughton, the only sideplate gun I ever liked. ("First" is a Purdey back action hammergun like Lord Ripon's or King Edward's ("God the Father shoots a hammer Purdey")of course.-