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would probably give the premium to the per- 

 formance of Mr. Herman Duryea's setter, Sioux, 

 in her second championship winning. There was 

 no competition, as all the other dogs had been 

 drawn and she was running with her kennel mate, 

 Clip Wind'em. The weather had been rainy the 

 day before and had suddenly turned cold, freezing 

 the occasional drizzle as it fell and making the 

 ground severe for not only the dogs but the 

 horses, glassy as it was on the surface. Though 

 the mud and rain were frozen all over her legs 

 and underbody, the little setter went three hours 

 and a half at high speed. When taken up she 

 was in a wretched plight, showing the ordeal 

 through which she had been put. Birds were 

 very plentiful and nobody knows exactly how 

 many points she made. The judges counted four- 

 teen bevies found by the dogs or flushed by the 

 riders, and Sioux must have made at least twenty 

 points with only one or two slight and excusable 

 errors. 



Most of these incidents refer to dogs in West- 

 ern competitions and illustrate the taste of West- 

 ern men. None the less, class shows itself even 

 in Massachusetts and Connecticut, though it 

 takes a somewhat different form where dogs are 

 expected to adapt themselves quickly to small 

 fields, to the caution of work on ruffed grouse, 

 and to the unreliable habits of the jack-snipe. 



