FOREST AND STREAM. 



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his point I would state further that while becalmed just back 

 from Long Boat Inlet several years ago, and as near as I can 

 remember it must have been in August or September, I drove 

 my lily-irou completely through a sung ray, which must have 

 been at least four feet across the wings or back. The harpoon 

 toggled on the under Bide, so there was no chance for it to 

 ■draw, and the fish was so powerful that it drew my boat 

 around quite lively for several minutes, when, with the help 

 of the throat halliards, I hoisted it ou deck. Just before it 

 ■was fairly balanced on the rail, three young ones, some six or 

 •eight inches across, escaped from the vent, fell into the water 

 and fluttered away as lively as though they had been there be- 

 fore. 1 cut the large one open to secure the liver for oil, but 

 did not discover any more young. Major Sarasota. 



Do Fish Hear? — Mr. Editor: One day last summer I 

 went snapper fishing, and while waiting for a bite watched 

 the thousands of young menhaden playing around my boat. 

 Suddenly there came the report of a gun, discharged in the 

 woods, at least a mile distant. At once every fish disappeared. 

 This occurred several times, and if the little "Jersey Sar- 

 dines" did not hear the gun, what made them dive ? While 

 on this subject, I will add that having read in " Domesti- 

 cated Trout " that the speckled gentlemen and ladies refused 

 to eat during the spawning time, to test the matter I took 

 spawn from a trout, placedher in the water, then threw some 

 of her own eggs in front of her nose, and she at once swal- 

 iowed them. Thomas Clapham. 



Roslyn,L. I., Sept. 1. 



A Theke-Lkoqbd Woodcock.— Mr. Sutherland has called 

 our attention to a three-legged woodcock which turned up 

 among a lot of birds. Unfortunately the careless cook, 

 who was not on the look out for lusm natures, had the plumes 

 off of pHlohela. The third leg was independent of the two 

 natural apendages, had toes and claws, but was evidently 

 more for ornament than for use. Now, if nature wants to 

 play f reaks of this character, why don't she construct a wood- 

 oock with two heads, or make a •anvas back duck with a 

 supplementary breast ? 



The Spearing an Anchovy.— This little fish, so plentiful 

 on our shores, and so often used for bait, Professor Goode 

 and Dr. Tarleton Bean declare to be a species of anchovy, 

 EngrauttsvttaUm, and differs but slightly from the K. encrasi- 

 •oholw, the European variety. The very long name the little 

 European fish has is a translation of gall-tinctured, because of 

 some peculiar bitterness in a badly cleansed fish, Spearing 

 have become somewhat notorious of late in our waters, as they 

 have been sold for white bait, which latter fish they do not at 

 all resemble. 



An English Haven on the War Path. — Danville Junc- 

 tion, Me., Aug. 29. — Mr. Editor : I brought a fine raven from 

 . Sheffield, England, four years ago, aud ht> has just commenced 

 to talk this summer, speaking the words Rossie, Sophy, 

 Warren, names in my family, and saying, '- How are ye '?" 

 quite plainly, and very loud and distinct, but he is a savage 

 "brat," and don't turn out for anything, having killed a 

 pair of ruffed grouse, a bittern, and a beaver for me. " 



M. W. C. 

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Ahritals at thk Cincinnati Zoolouical Garden up to Sept. 1 

 1878.— One L'ama, Lama peruana, born in garden ; one chimpanzee. 

 Troglodytes nujcr, flepOJltecl iij Messrs. C. Reielie & Bro.; one alligator, 

 A. miJisisitijriauns, presented by E. J. Hlgglns ; one macaque monkey, 

 Macacus C!/n'.>ii<o.iiHtt.. buru m ^Lirden: three passenger pigeonR, Eciopi^t:* 

 lniriratornvs, batched in garden; one cauary, Serimts caiwrius, pre- 

 sented by Dr. Zipperltn; two silver pheasants, Euplocarnus nycthemerw, 

 hatched in 'garden ; four English pheaeaut.s, Phasianm colckicut, 

 hatched In garden; two hog deer, Cervm porcimte; ouo Equine deer, 

 Genius equinuH ; two spotted hyenas, Hyena crocuba, presented by A. 

 Erkenbrteclier ; two ouve weavers, Hyphautornw caiiaisis, hatched in 

 garden; one groat e»rtt, Ardea egretta, purchased; two ditto, pre- 

 sented; two giraffes, Camclopardalig giraff'a ; two jaguars, Pelts onca; 

 two weeper capuchins, Cebus capueinus ; two brown capuchius, Cebus 

 fatwMus ; two wlitte-ttiroated capuchius, Cebut liypoleucus ; one great 

 kangaroo, Jfocru/jiis i)i';/, t/ ift.i« ; two Stanley cranes, TelmpUryx. para- 

 disea; one King vulture, Gyhapua papa ; one b.ue and yellow macaw, 

 Ara armma, purchased. H. V. 1KOALI.S, Sup't. 



AnmVALB at the Pair.AiiEcpntA Zoolohical Garden, I'aihmodmt 

 Park, fok Two Weeks, A Co cst 2T.— One pine snake, Pituaphis met«.no 

 leucus, presented; one woodchuck, A. vwnax, presented ; one Am. 

 robin, Twrdua migratorius, do. ; one snake, Coluber mdpinus, do. ; oue 

 kangaroo rut. li</p6ipr>j'i<(iiu.-> ruj^som*, born in Garden; one great 

 horned owl, Dubo viryiniamw, presented. 



HOW POYNINGS SOLD HIS DOGS. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



Will you allow me to tell an apparently simple yet complex 

 story ? I was the owner of a small kennel, some five pointers 

 and setters, with a half dozen youngsters. With time and 

 means at my dispoial I had carefully selected my stock. All 

 my dogs had been exhibited, and had secured a fair amount 

 of prizes. I had taken great pride in my kennel, when ques- 

 tions of health required my seeking a milder climate. I beg 

 to state this fact quite distinctly as the sole reason for my 

 wanting to sell my dogs. I advertised my dogs in the Forest 

 and Stream and Rod and Gun. My stock must have had a 

 fair reputation, or your paper must reach all over the country 

 for one week after the insertion of my advertisement letters 

 came pouring on me like a deluge. My prices, which had 

 been fully announced, I had determined not to abate a penny. 

 First I may remark that many letters I received intimated that 

 the figures I had fixed " were very well for an asking price, 

 but what was the money I really did intend to take for them 

 dogs?" Occasionally a letter would come in which I was 

 soundly berated for asking such an insignificant sum for my 



choicest dogs, the tone of these epistles indicating that I was 

 a bear in the dog market, nnd vowing vengeance on me for 

 my intention to break down the business. Need I remark 

 that the general spelling and get up of the majority of the 

 letters were of the worst kind ? Sometimes my correspondents 

 would abuse me. I was I old thaljmy dogs were not worth a 

 cent, that the prizes I had won were due to favoritism. That 

 on the occasion of such and such a show I must have remem- 

 bered " that a dog, the second to the left from your (my) poor 

 mangy brute, which was nothing but a scrub, was a handsome 

 dog, and, as money and not. brag was I he thing, that he ( A.B.) 

 would bet his dog or dogs against mine, to take them in Hie 

 field and try them, and if my (A. B.'s) wasn't the better, why 

 you (I) might take his'dog. If I wanted to," this individual 

 continued, " put up money, there was a crowd as would back 

 him to the amount of $1,000. I had only to send my dog or 

 dogs to him, and I might expect on their having a fair show- 

 ing." One very impudent person intimated to me that there 

 was a ring which would prevent my selling my dogs unless 

 through his intermedium. "Just clap on §100 on your price 

 and give me $50 for commission, and I can soil I hem. Send 

 me f 5 at wuusl for expenses I may be at." 1 might have kept 

 a photographic establishment, and would not then have been 

 enabled to keep up the demand for dog pictures. As to the 

 offers to swop, they were of the most varied kind. One. 

 whole-souled gentleman offered me one-tenth share in an 

 oyster smack sailing out of Hew York, another a whole 

 arsenal of second-hand fowling pieces, with a revolver thrown 

 in ; a real estate owner offered a quarter section in Texas. 

 The barter of my good dogs for worthless ones was 

 apparently a determined point on the part of many of my 

 correspondents. Pedigrees of dogs, which were tissues of 

 lies from beginning to end, were sent to me. Of course, as I 

 did not want, dogs, good or bad, for such letters I had a ready 

 reply. I am shocked to state that more than one attempt was 

 made by persons who called themselves gentlemen to induce 

 the man who had charge of my dogs to allow my stud animals 

 to serve without my consent or knowledge. I never could 

 have imagined that so mucb annoyance could have arisen 

 from the simple desire on my part to sell my dogs. Some per ■ 

 sons who would offer me half of what I asked, and which I 

 politely declined, left my presence in great anger and spread 

 the rumor that I had failed and that I was forced to sail out 

 all I had, even to my watch and chain. As impudent an of- 

 fer as I had was from one individual, who, after writing me 

 six scrawls and coming to see the dogs a dozen times, at last 

 made the following propos.tion : "Ten dollars cash, ten dol- 

 lars at the end of the week, and the rest in notes at three and 

 six months." One coustant offer was for a party to take my 

 best dog and to pay me half of what he would win for the 

 next two years in bench shows, and one puppy from every 

 litter of his get. Long letters of eight and ten pages, with a 

 single postage stamp on them, when two and three were requi- 

 site, would come in every day. I had some idea of securing 

 a secretary or of employing a dog broker. At last I came 

 across my man. In ten minutes my price was accepted, the 

 money was paid, and I really was so pleased that 1 had not 

 come in contact with a dickerer, or a suspicious man, or a 

 party that wanted to overreach me, and was so satisfied that 

 my favorites would be in good bands, that, in the exuberance 

 of my heart, I presented that gentleman with a choice puppy. 

 With my young stock I had quite as much trouble. The lot 

 were not quite four months old. but singularly healthy and 

 likely puppies. Everybody seemed to want them in their 



peculiar way. " Would 1 take dollars for them, aud 



deliver them in six mouths or in eight months ?" The price 

 mentioned was below my figures, and I was to guarantee that 

 the dogs would be alive in some months to come. Attempts 

 to overreach me in every possible way were apparent. I was 

 telegraphed to by unknown persons to send at once to some 

 out-of-the-way station in New Jersey a brace of my pups, the 

 most likely, and by return mail a post office order would 

 reach me. One most annoying character was a woman— pos- 

 sibly of the dog sisterhood— who offered me for my pup a 

 parrot and ten free tickets to the leading theatres in New 

 York for he coming season, the opera included, I think if 

 my mau had not watched this woman closely she would have 

 taken away one of the little does under her shawl. At fist 

 Baltimore, Philadelphia and Albany took my puppies at .ex- 

 actly my figures, and atter one month of really hard work, 

 over which I have had many a laugh, my dog mart is closed. 

 I do not wish, however, to have such another experience. 

 New York, July '60, \878. IVynings. 



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Dogs and the Customs. — One would suppose by this 

 time that the Custom house people understood their business, 

 and that the question of duties on animals imported for breed- 

 ing had been definitely settled. Last week Mr. William 

 Astor had sent over a oouple of hlood hounds by the steamer 

 St- Laurent, which took two whole days before I hey could be 

 cleared. After the not very comfortable durance dogs are 

 put to on a steamer, owners are often very anxious to get 

 their dogs ou land. Such delays are then very stupid and 

 uncalled for. In fact our American method of collecting 

 duties is of the most unsatisfactory character. Bound up and 

 twisted in red tape, difficult to understand, it is mostly out of 

 the power for a person unacquainted with the routine of the 

 office to clear his goods. All U. S. Custom House ordiuance 

 are impossible and onerous, when it becomes absolutely neces- 

 sary that a new party, a Custom House broker, must be em- 

 ployed to carry out the simplest business with the office. 



St. Paul Bench Show. — An unaccountable delay in the 

 mail has obliged us to defer the account of this exhibition un- 

 til next week. 



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Dob Items In and Around Detroit. — Detroit, Sept. 7. — 

 Mrs. General Custer has presented to O. E. Mason, of this 

 city, the brace of imported Scotch staghounds, Swift and 

 Tuck, given to the late General Custer by a Scotch nobleman. 

 These dogs gave chase to a deer of Mr. Mason's at his country 

 seat one day last week. Mr. Mason'B setter bitch whelped 8 

 puppies a few weeks ago. They are by Jos. Cook's Princo 

 Hob, who is out of N. Oodge's field trial setter bitch Rose, by 

 I'ili-.i ngton's Rufus, Prince Rob being imported in uttro. 

 This dog was short lived, ho having escaped from his owner's 

 premises and runniug wild was cornered in the basement of a 

 church, and parties reporting the dog rabid, he was shot by a 

 policeman. He is a great loss to Mr7 Cook, being thoroughly 

 broken and a dog of great promise, J. B. Price, of this city, 

 has presented one each to A. J. Rogers and S. F. Whitman, 

 of this city, very fine pointer bitches out of his imported 

 pointer bitch Fannie, by E, EL GTum.an'g lemon and white 

 pointer dog Dash. Charles K. Ward, of this city, has sold 

 the black and tan beagle bitch whelp Juno to Wensrll Jack, 

 Watertown, Wis, Druid. 



Imported Irish Fox Hounds— St. Dennu, Md., Sept. G.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: The three couples of Irish fox 

 hounds sent as a present to the Efkridge Fox Hunting Club, 

 from the kennel of Mr. Mooro, Ireland, arrived here to-day, 

 just having come from the steamer daspian, of the Allan 

 line. They were in fine condition, and are large, well built, 

 muscular dogs, and scars go to show that some of them are 

 not unacquainted with foxes. They were taken to the kennel 

 of the club on the 5th. I annex their names and pedigrees ; 



Barbara— Black and while bitch, by Lord Portsmouth's 

 Rondeinan out of his Frantic (ears rouaded). 



Racer— White dog with blown and tau spots, by Mr. Wat- 

 son's Singer out of Lord Donararte's Rosary (cars loumlcd.) 



Frailty— White bitch with brown spots, by Lord Water- 

 ford's Paragon out of his Tablible (ears rounded). 



Prophet — Black and white dog, by Lord Waterford's Nestor 

 out of Blankney Primrose. 



Vigilant — Tan and white dog, by Blankney Vanquisher 

 out of Lord Waterford's Giddy. 



Relish— Tan bitch, by L.iril Portsmouth's Ranger out of 

 his Remedy. 



The ears of Prophet, Relish and Vigilant are not rounded. 



"Si'ioE." — Editor Forest and Stream: In your paper of 

 September 5 I read with pleasure, mixed with sorrow, a letter 

 from "Podgers." I was pleased that he wishes to shake with 

 me, and I am with him in his sorrow at the death of poor 

 little Prince. I lost, many years ago, before the war, a black 

 and tan terrier bitch that I had raised from a puppy. She 

 was digging after rats one night, and a heavy sill which she 

 had undermined fell on her. We found her early in the morn- 

 ing under the sill, and took her oat. There was no bone 

 broken that we could find, but she pined away and died in a 

 few weeks. " Podgers' " sud story about little Prince took 

 me hack to the limes when 1 would pat and talk to Spice and 

 the poor thing would wag her stump of a tail and thank me 

 for my sympathy. She did not Beem to sutler much and 

 could walk a little, but nothing could be done to save her life. 

 When 1 shall be at home again I know that my friends, Don 

 and Punch, will be quite bapppy, which they are not now ; 

 for my servant, who has charge of them, writes that "they 

 don't look happy at all. With a hearty shake of the baud 

 for friend " Podgers," I am yours, etc., G- L. A. 



Newport, Ii. I., Sept., 9, 1878, 



Nasuyillk Field Trials — Our Nashville, Tenn., corres- 

 pondent wriles us that Mr. Clark Pritchell, Secretary of the 

 Tennessee Sportsmen's Association, has began work on the 

 necessary preparations for lb held trials to take place there 

 in December, and the association ate determined to make 

 them us much of a sueoes.-i us they have formerly been. 



Not a Goon Joke.— At a recent break last, given by the 

 Irish Zoological Society, some one who had a collection of 

 animals in charge related the following as a good joke; 

 Being in straits for money, he had crossed a fine breed of 

 Australian dingoes with Labrador water-dogs, and advertised 

 splendid watch-dog pops for sale, tie sold tliem off at two 

 guineas a piece until their funds were again replenished. All 

 went well while the dogs were pups, but, vvheu the brutes, grew 

 up the wild strain of the sheep-killinir blood burst out," and 

 accounts appeared in the newspapers of strange. wild-lookiDg 

 animals in Clare, Mayo and ltoscomnion slaughtering the 

 sheep. There was a gentleman in the room who knew a 

 farmer, twelve of whose she. p h id bl I n killed hy one of these 

 valuable watch-dogs. He said that, Iroin a moral point of 

 view, he ought, to resign the post of secretary of the society, 

 and had consulted a clerical friend on ihe matter. The latter 

 informed him that the case was a difficult one, not provided 

 for in the books. He thought, if the elector's health allowed 

 it, he might keep the place some time, longer, but advised him, 

 AS a friend, to retire from it some time before death, to give 

 time for repentance. 



Doos at A Bargain.— An oppeirtunity to secure a canine 

 prize and to rescue a deserving dog from ignoble death is now 

 offered to those interested, in the dog pound, foot of East 

 Sixteenth street, this city, are a number of good dogs of vari- 

 ous breeds, which are for sale cheap. If not dispo.-ed of in a 

 short time they will be drowned with the curs in the East 

 River. 



Pennyroyal for Fleas. — A. correspondent suggests that 

 dog owners should gather a supply of pennyroyal, Hedeoma 

 puUgivides, before the frosl kills it. It is very useful as a 

 remedy for fleas, and may be used as a bed in the kennel. 



Death.— Mr. W. Mooro, of Bloomneld, N. J , has lost his 

 black white and tan dog pup Magregor by champion Rob 

 Roy-Bess. 



Dash. — Some errors having inadvertently been printed as 

 to Mr. T. A. Fowler's Dash, we hasten to 'corn ct the same. 

 Dash was winner of first prize in Boston and of second prize 

 in class 13, champion pointers over 50 lbs,, in New York show. 

 The dog was bought, not for Mr. John Gibb, but for John 

 Gill, of the firm of J. and G. H. Gill, of Orange. 



Names Claimed— L. P. Whitman, Esq, of Detroit, Sept. 

 8th, claims the name of Rose for his liver and white p tinter 

 bitch pup, out of J. B. Price's imported bitch Fannie, hy E. 

 H. Gillmau's Dash. 



Clytik. — Mr. Geo. Miller, of Jersey City, claims the name 

 of Clytie for his liver and white cocker spanniel trvp, whelped 

 May 13. 1678. out of F. N. Halls Lou by Ceo. Watson's Slot, 

 winner of first at N. Y 1878. 



—Mr. E. D. Moss claims the name of Dandy for his cocker 

 spaniel puppy 1 , bred by Mr. MoKoon, of Franklin, N. Y. 

 Puppy out of Oasy by Sum. 



Gold Medals in Paris.— To Louis McMurray it Co., of 

 Baltimore, Md., canned provisions. Burnham i& Morrill, 

 Portland, Maine, for canned provisions. 



