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young dogs which he bought at my suggestion 

 not long ago. He said that in his judgment the 

 youngsters were first-class, but that his trainer 

 wanted to reject them because they were hard to 

 handle. I see that Mr. Buckell has recently 

 made a criticism along this line in regard to the 

 English field trials. He says that the trainers 

 control the entries and that they pick dogs 

 which are trained with the least trouble. This 

 disposition of the trainers he regards as respon- 

 sible for the inferior natural class of the dogs now 

 contending in public on that side of the water. 

 It is likely that Eastern amateurs will have to 

 read their trainers a lecture if they desire dogs 

 which are capable of what a Western man would 

 call first-rate bevy work and are at the same 

 time responsive to command. 



Mohawk, Mr. Duryea's latest crack setter, has 

 given two recorded exhibitions of class. In his 

 Derby year at the United States trials he was on 

 a wide cast, going a great pace, for at all times 

 he is one of the fastest of setters. He jumped a 

 ditch and in the fraction of a second from the 

 take-off of the leap he caught scent. When he 

 struck the ground he was flattened on a stiff 

 point, his head turned to the bevy. The next 

 year, in the same club's all-age stake, he was sev- 

 eral hundred yards from Avent, his handler, rang- 

 ing at speed. Passing a bushy place, he whipped 



