True Dave, but the "protectionists" were gaining a tighter and tighter stranglehold on the activity around the turn of the century... not siding with them by any means, just reciting general social mores of the time.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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