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good thing about it, and that is, you need not be afraid of 

 their getting lost; they will find their way home under all 

 circumstances. I have had them on grounds ten to fifteen 

 miles from my home, in places where they had never 

 been before, but I could leave them there to finish a job of 

 digging without fear of losing them. They always return 

 when ready. How they manage it is a mystery to me, 

 unless by the use of their superior scenting powers they trace 

 their return. I have had hundreds of them, but never lost 

 a single one. 



As to their value for tracking wounded deer, I can not 

 do better than to repeat the words of Mr. N. A. Osgood, 

 of Battle Creek, Mich., who owns the beautiful bitch 

 Gertie. He says that while hunting deer in Northern 

 Michigan, it happened that several were wounded and 

 could not be found; among them the largest buck they 

 had seen during their stay. He was tracked by all the 

 dogs they had with them, but all gave up the hunt when 

 the tracks run to a stream. After all the other dogs were 

 chained up, Gertie trailed the buck alone, and on reaching 

 the stream plunged in, swam across, hunted up the lost 

 trail on the other side, and soon the well-known "kiff- 

 kiff" assured Mr. Osgood of Gertie's success; and he states 

 that no more wounded deer were lost after that time. 

 Gertie, of course, became the pet of the camp. 



Another gentleman, after returning from a northern 

 hunt, wrote me that his eight-months-old Dachshund 

 exhibited a great deal of pluck by holding his ground 

 near a bear after several other dogs left the field. By 

 steadily barking and circling around the bear, he held its 

 attention until the hunter approached and killed it. 



If you wish to hunt foxes or badgers, the Dachshund 

 will perform the same work for you here as he does for 

 your brother sportsman in Europe. 



The Dachshund can also be used for "treeing" par- 

 tridges (ruffed grouse) or squirrels; and as rat-killers they 

 can not be excelled. He is a capital companion for the 

 man who enjoys hunting alone. If you once gain his 



