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    More time on one’s hands

    Sep 10, 2020 3 minutes

    DURING a long and varied shooting career I’ve been privileged to witness some outstanding dogwork, from field trial spaniels, which are so clever they could fix your computer and rustle up a risotto in between making perfect retrieves, to huge-hearted labradors forging through choppy seas to collect a greylag slipping away on the ebb. And in those wet winter days when I’m confined to my study I dwell on all those canine companions that not only add to the bag but whose presence adds immeasurably to the day.

    Some of them are undeniably glamorous. No

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