BROOMHILL, Man. — Mazie Davis calls me “honey” in the first minutes of my visit. She says “ah” for I, and “ha” for hi, and “ba” for bye, in her lazily melodic southern accent and glides out her vowels ...

'The Pointer is an athlete, a series of flowing curves, with a slightly concave muzzle to lift his nose and aid the scenting powers,' runs a very evidently heartfelt description of the English Pointer ...