a few years since beyond all manner of controversy, when a gamekeeper absolutely brought a full-grown PIG to _hunt_ and _point_ to the BIRDS; and procured a considerable emolument from displaying repeated proofs of his ingenuity, patience, and perseverance. SETTER,—in the game of HAZARD, is the person who _sets_ the CASTER; or, in other words, the player, who makes stakes with the person holding the box and dice, who, if he THROWS IN, draws the money; on the contrary, if he _throws out_, the setter is the winner. SETTER-TO—is a term in cocking. The setter-to is the person who in a cock-pit receives the cock (going to fight) from the feeder, and hands him upon the SOD during the battle, according to the laws of the pit, and the conditions of the match. See COCKING, COCK-PIT, and MAIN of COCKS. SHANK-BONE,—in a horse, is the bone extending from the knee to the fetlock-joint. This bone should be uniform, firm and compact, well proportioned to the length of the fore-arm above, and the pastern below; if too long for either, or both, the symmetry is totally lost; and hence a general objection to horses whose legs are _too long_ for the CARCASE, which is a defect readily observed; and indifferent judges are always prepared to say, such a horse has "too much day-light under him." SHAPE and MAKE.—The "shape and make" of horses offered for sale, is such an eternal echo, whether at the public hammer, or by private contract, from one end of the kingdom to the other, that it is natural to conceive, no sporting subject can be more completely understood; but as there are eternally younger branches coming forward, and monied noviciates _paying_ for practical experience in the _art_ of DEALING, such extensive rules are introduced, to inculcate the absolute necessity for circumspection in BUYING, under the head HORSE, that not a single line of utility can be added upon the subject.