It is the boy's hero, the one he loves and reverences among his schoolfellows, not his taskmaster,that is his true teacher, the setter of the broader standards by which he is to abide through life.

No sound was uttered that human ears could hear; but the chase ended right there, on the instant, and the cub came trotting back like a well-broken setter at the whistle.

No great man was ever more anxiously copied by some slavish flatterer than that old sleepy carelessly-great setter by that eager, ambitious little terrier.

He is a more unjust bone-setter than a dice-maker.

With equal willingness, the first will be slow at learning; the second will take to his books as a pointer or a setter to his field-work.

His lordship lived in the middle of the sixteenth century, and was therefore a contemporary of Dr. Caius, who may possibly have been indebted to the Earl for information when, in his work on English Dogges, he wrote of the Setter under the name of the Index.

" Queen, another present of Matt's to George, was a Gordon Setter with a strong admixture of native blood, and was hopeless as a regular team dog because of her high-strung and irritable disposition.

My own belief, sir, is, that Homer's manuscriptif he had one, which I doubtresembled a sheet of paper over which a fly with inked feet has crawled;and you may imagine, sir, the respect, and, I may add, the labor, of the old Greek type-setters in publishing the first edition of the Iliad.

He is not much like the dove-eyed setter over whom we shot woodcock this afternoon, but to me he is the fairest object on the face of the earth, this gaunt, brindled Ulm.