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see him. He would back out, find and take me to the place and resume 
his point. ‘ 
“Lass was another good one of more recent years. I had her for a 
month in North Carolina in the winter of 1895-96, and there were few 
days on which she was not in the field. One day she nearly drowned her- 
self trying to point a quail when she was swimming a creek; finally she 
touched bottom, and there she stood with only her head above water. On 
another occasion.we had driven to the shooting ground, and as soon as she 
was lifted from the wagon she stood at point to some birds fifty yards 
on the other side of the wagon. At Shokan, N. Y., I shot fifteen quail 
and seven ruffed grouse over her, and bad weather it was for pointing any- 
thing, but she missed nothing. With her I once struck a little bunch of 
woodcock, beginning at Woodridge and working up toward home. It was 
most difficult to get anything like a shot at them, for they kept in the scrub. 
I do not know how many cock there were, but she made twenty-one points 
and two flushes. In July, three years ago, I had three days’ woodcock 
shooting over her about Lodi and killed twenty-one birds. These may 
seem very small bags to men who go to specially selected shooting grounds, 
but I have had some dogs with great reputations, world-beaters, come out 
to run against my reds on this hard locality for game, and whether it is 
their experience on the ground or not I do not know, but mine have always 
had the majority of the points. Dogs have got to be game and persevering 
for this poverty-stricken game country. I was out yesterday till noon, 
started early too, and got one snipe. I only had one dog with me, however, 
and the snipe were not on, for that is the only one I saw. Many dogs 
would quit with no better success than that.” 
Etcuo’s Great Recorp 
For a man who had four champion dogs of his own breeding competing 
in one class and had eight field trials winners, Dr. Jarvis was far too reticent 
regarding his dogs. We therefore feel the necessity of telling the story of the 
great Elcho. Thirteen years ago we wrote inthe American Kennel Register 
as follows: “If ever a dog deserved the title of champion that one is Dr. 
Wm. Jarvis’s Irish setter Elcho. His long list of personal prize-winnings 
and his success as a sire of bench, show and field-trials-winners stamp him 
as far and away the best animal—we do not confine it to dogs—that ever 
