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and as an all-round shooting dog on quail, snipe, 

 woodcock, and prairie chickens. While he had 

 more experience on quail, I never shot a gun over 

 a better snipe dog. The woodcock shooting over 

 him was in February as they came along on their 

 northward flight; these migrants being met with 

 in shooting quail in that month. His chicken ex- 

 perience was not so great as that of dogs kept in 

 a chicken country ; still, he was as good as one 

 would wish in that line. He possessed nose, 

 natural sense, style, speed, and endurance ; more 

 of the last quality than any dog I ever saw hunt a 

 whole day. He was used as a retriever for all 

 kinds of game and did his work well. 



Gladstone's Boy had all the qualities of his 

 famous sire, except that he did not have quite as 

 much speed and style. Had he been kept and 

 used as a field trial dog, instead of a shooting dog 

 to shoot over in all kinds of weather and all day 

 for a week at a time, he would have been invin- 

 cible in that role. He did not have the variety 

 of style of his sire. His points were stylish, 

 but like one another. He came the nearest of 

 quitting even with Gladstone in an all-day hunt 

 among all the dogs I ever saw go in the field with 

 the old fellow, and they met often in a friendly all- 

 day hunt. 



Gath was the best field trial dog in my opinion 

 that ever ran in the United States. He was 



