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been dragged in a zig-zag direction through grass or over the 

 ground. 



Cats and Dogs in Florida — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Mr. Hamcrlon, in one of his " Chapters on Animals," 

 remarks that one great difficulty in the intercourse between 

 the dog and his master is the shortness, of the dog's life, 

 which comes to an end just. When they begin to understand 

 each other. If this is the case in England, where the dog 

 leads a life comparatlvelj safe, bow ranch more is it the case 

 in Florida, where be has many dangerous foes. Likes, rivers 

 and swamps there abound, and in them lurks the cunning and 

 ferocious alligator, whose favorite repast is dog meat, and 

 sooner or later the hound or pointer goes down that yawning 

 throat. I have heard of a wise, old foxhound, who "used to 

 baffle the enemy by attracting him with his voice to a certain 

 part of the river, which he wished to cross, and then running 

 at full speed to another part, where he crossed before the 

 brute could reacli him. 



The same story is told in ancient history of the dogs living 

 on the Nile, and I have heard it told as a trait of the instinct 

 of the dogs of South America, where the cayman, or alligator, 

 is very dangerous. There must be some foundation for a tide 

 ■which conies from so many quarters. Old Buck, the Florida 

 hound, was once overtaken by an alligator in the river, when 

 he turned and showed tight. The reptile being cowardly, and 

 not used to resistance, drew back and hesitated, wnich gave 

 the dog the chance of escape. But some time after, having 

 been left behind by his master, who had gone across Halifax 

 Inlet in a boat, Buck started to swim across, and was de- 

 voured by a shark. The panther is also fond of dog moat, 

 and has often been known to carry off the house-dog in the 



night. Many dogs die f 

 casins also. Besides theseeno 

 Bubject to many fatal diseases, 

 days. I have never, however, 

 ness in Florida, though dogs ar 

 Cats, not being aquatic in tht 

 the alligator, and seldom are snake-bit t 

 big gopher-snake who used to curry off 



id unic- 

 es, the dog in this climate is 

 1 seldom lives out all bis 

 ml of. a case of canine mad- 

 bundant. 



habits, escape the maw of 

 e heard of a 

 but he came 



Once too often, for he met the enraged parents, who set upon 

 and killed him, although he measured seven feet or more. 

 The great and dangerous enemy of the cat in Florida is the 

 wildcat {Fells rujus), very abundant in the woods and 

 swamps, which prowls about for poultry and young pigs, 

 and which scruples not to devour its domestic cousin when it 

 gets a chance. Hitting once late; at night ou the piazza of my 

 hotel at New Smyrna, I heard a great outcry among the 

 "harmless, necessary cats," which the landlord explained by 

 saying that a -wildcat was after them ; and sure enough, all 

 that remained next morning of our sleek and handsome 

 Thomas were a few bunches of hair at the edge of the scrub. 

 At another house where I was staying a favorite Maltese dis- 

 appeared in the same way, notwithstanding the efforts of the 

 dogs, which rushed to the rescue. The robber was too quick 

 for them. S. C. C. 



Doa Management.— We take the following from ldstone 

 on "The Dog, with Simple Directions for his Treatment " : 



Drawing-room pets are peculiarly liable to plethora, and 

 there is but one remedy— starvation. With over-high condi- 

 tion, skin disease comes as a matter of course. In this 

 wretched state the skin becomes thick, ribbed, and irritable, 

 and low diet, physic, and dressing, all fail unless the dressing 

 is severe, and as I think barbarous. No house-dog in a 

 moderate-sized family requires any feeding. He can supply 

 himself if he is unrestrained, ami plates of meat, thin bread 

 and butter, and cake, are cruelties. I think, however, that no 

 dog should be altogether a free agent. He should he chained 

 up at times, or he will Lie indifferent to any exertion, and ca- 

 pricious as to following his master or staying at home. He 

 will be most sensible and useful if he is the servant of one 

 person, and if no one else has anything to do with him, and 

 decidedly, whoever is to be the master for the day should per- 

 sonally loosen his chain. The dog always has a very marked 

 preference for that individual who unbuckles his colar first 

 when he has been taken to a new home, and he never forgets 

 this hour's liberty. 



In regard to drawing-room pets, in many of the eases of 

 malady reported to us the cause as designated by IdsLone has 

 been surfeit. There is the story often repealed of the famous 

 dog doctor in London, whose specialty it was to cure dow- 

 ager's dogs. His system was as simple as possible. The dog was 

 tied to a tree and given nothing to eat for three days, and was 

 then returned perfectly cured. The charge for treatment was 

 two guineas. Sometimes, when we have advised anxious in- 

 quirers about their pets not to feed them at all for a day or so, 

 and then but sparingly, when such counsel has been taken the 

 best results have followed. If a dog is really hungry he will 

 eat plain, good food, which, when pampered, he refuses. 



Dogs tor Shooting in Nobwav. — A writer in the London 

 Field, telling of shooting vipers— a species of ptarmigan 

 found in Norway— brings the colors of the dog somewhat in 

 prominence, as follows ; 



The best dogs to lake for this kind of sport are setters, 

 trained to retrieve. 1 like the lemon-and-white-colored Eng- 

 lish variety best myself; they are more conspicuous wdien 

 among the birch and willow bushes than the red Irish or 

 black-and tan Gordon. Even if the sportsman visits the 

 country alone, two dogs at least are absolutely necessary, as a 

 single dog is so liable, if continually worked, especially over 

 rough ground, to become footsore, and in that case the sports- 

 man would be unable to go out, while, if he has two dogs, 

 should one unfortunately fall lame, the poor brute can have a 

 day or two's rest, while the sportsman makes shift -with the 



Other. 



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Worms in Dogs.— An article, written by our correspond- 

 ent, "S.," having been used by our excellent contemporary, 

 The Live Stock Journal, in which the origin of Entoma in 

 animals is traced, we find the following in the ' ' Comptes 

 Rendus" for 1876 : 



In some researches on Filaria liemiUica, M. M. Catch and 

 PourquiiT found these worms in the blood of the foatus of a 

 bitch, whose heart was filled with them, lint they do no; ex 

 plain how they traversed the double wall of the placenta, in 

 order to pass from patent to offspring. 



The round of life in Kutosoa is most curious, and has yet to 

 Solved. The pposition of our correspondent is un- 



doubtedly the only one which will hold, which is, "that the 

 worms bore their way into the blood vessels of the intestinal 

 canals," or may be floated there in the blood, and that, these 

 turned loose into the milk of the mother, are again taken up 

 by the offspring. 



Doa Foisting a Stone.— A correspondent, writing from 

 Salem, Mass., sends us the following: 



Coming up Cherry street, recently, my dog, a young setter, 

 stopped short, ou a point, quite stiff. Investigation proved 

 him to be standing on a small stone, which he evidently mis- 

 took fora house-sparrow, thalare very numerous in our neigh- 

 borhood. One thing this proves to me, i. e., young dogs will 

 very often point, at sight, I think quite as often as at scent— 

 at Last until shot over. 



Wbbm-s.— Lake City, Minn., Sept. 24.— S. B. Dilly's Dolly, 

 dam of Royal Fan and Rattler, has whelped seven by cham- 

 pion Ranger. 



Psvoiie.— Mr. H. N. Morris' lemon.and- white pointer bitch 

 Psyche, winner of the first and special prizes at the second 

 annual N. Y. Bench Show, has just whelped five fine puppies 

 by the champion Sensation, all lemon-and-white— four dogs 

 and one bitch. 



Sport. — The Morse Brothers, of West Medford, Mass., have 

 lost their fine English setter Sport, which was killed by a rail- 

 road train. She was a fine hunter and the mother of many 

 good dogs. 



Very Superior Stock.— We call particular attention to 

 advertisement in our columns, which offers for sale a remark- 

 ably fine lot of pointers and setters. As all these dogs, their 

 pedigrees and performances, are familiar to us, we can assure 

 those wanting good animals that a better opportunity of 

 securing choice animals has rarely been presented. )n the 

 pointer puppies, any one wanting to start a kennel with the 

 best and bluest blood, would do well to secure the entire lot. 

 We will be glad to give full information in regard to these 

 animals. [6'ee adv. 



In assuming, or rather resuming, charge of the Kennel 

 Department of this paper, the writer would assure the readers 

 of Forest and Stream and Ron and Gcn that no effort 

 will be spared on his part to make it thoroughly interesting 

 and valuable. Since his former connection with the paper, 

 and during his editorship of The Country, he has given ken- 

 nel matters the closest attention and study, and therefore ap- 

 proaches the task with confidence. Everything of interest re- 

 lating to the dog, both at home and abroad, will be carefully 

 noted and commented upon. W. M. Tlleston. 



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Oct 3 



ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB PENNANT 

 M ATCH. 



THERE is no nonsense about the Atlantic Yacht Club. 

 When its members want to sail a match they sail it, 

 and when they want to go on a cruise they go. Twelve 

 yachts to start or no sail is something they know nothing of, 

 for they never intend to make a hippodrome display of the 

 dab's affairs, but follow up the sport for the love of it and 

 for the enjoyment to be derived from its zealous and resoluti 

 pursuit. When, therefore, the date for the annual pennant 

 match of the club was made public it was a foregone conclu- 

 sion that the race would be a fine one, and in this we were 

 not disappointed, for the meet of Thursday, Sept. 26, could 

 not have been surpassed in interest, the close struggle, fine 

 seamanship and abundance of pluck displayed, stamping the 

 club as one of the first in the land in point of seamanship and 

 able craft. 



The arrangements for the race were thorough, and the 

 printed programmes gave all the information needed to the 

 skippers. The classification of yachts adopted by this club is 

 a judicious one, and does away to a large degree with the 

 failures attending upon the crude attempts of some regatta 

 committees to sail big and little alike in one and the same 

 class and trust to the deceptions of time-allowance tables to 

 make good the difference. In this respect we are far behind 

 our English cousins, who have reached such system in their 

 regattas that time-allowance is fast becoming obsolete, all 

 yachts being built to class np to a certain figure and meeting 

 Others at the line of the same size only, rendering a race won 

 worthy of going ou the records as meaning something more 

 than first home, by a fluke or a streak of good luck, no one 

 knows how. But as long as we have a fleet of yachts widely 

 divergent in size, and as time allowance must stall come into 

 play, the Atlantic Yacht Club has struck the fairest course in 

 adopting a diversified classification which shall, as far as pos- 

 sible mitigate the short-comings of time-allowance, and hence 

 its regal las are looked forward to with interest by the general 

 yachting public quite as much as by the club members them- 

 selves. The courses selected were judicious, the omission of 

 rounding the southwest Spit upon the return home being a 

 satisfactory feature, cutting out a very tedious portion of the 

 course without materially reducing its length. The smallest 

 class went around the spit only and then made forborne. 

 Two of the rules call for passing" notice, and other clubs may 

 adopt them to advantage. In one it was stipulated that there 

 should be no limit to the time of the race, a very sound pro- 

 vision, for nothing is more harrassing than a resail, and in 



the other the obnoxious clause of "so many to start or no 

 race " was repealed. When an owner goes to the trouble and 

 expense of getting his craft in racing trim and comes to the 

 fine with the bona fide intentions of fighting for the cup, it is 

 manifestly poor policy to send him back to his moorings in 

 consideration of all the pains he has put himself to. "Two 

 to start or no race " has often been the means of frightening 

 off intending racers, doubtful whether a second yacht would 

 come to the line, and thus the entries have been skinned of 

 some of the best upon more than one occasion. AVhilo the 

 entries for the match in question might have been more nu- 

 merous, those that did hoist racing colors were' among the 

 smartest in the fleet, and the race turned out a well contested 

 one from beginning to end. 



During the run out a moderate breeze prevailed, in which 

 Agnes showed to remarkable advantage among the schooners, 

 holding a good wind and fairly beating Triton and Peerless. 

 The latter did better when the sea outside was struck, as her 

 deep body began to tell, but she gave the Lightship a very 

 wide berth in rounding, and lost much 01 What she had gained, 

 by keeping too full and runnine: down to leeward of the 

 mark and then tacking for it. Off the wind Triton put in 

 some belter work, and we were rather surprised to find Peer- 

 less actually overmatched by both the other schooners. Dur- 

 ing the squall they gave her a most unmistakable beating, 

 though it is but fair to mention that Peerless seemed a little 

 shorthanded, or else Mr. Maxwell, finding he could not. make 

 his time on the smaller ones, concluded to do nothing hasty, 

 but keep on the safe side of things during the terrific squall 

 from the westward, in which the race finished up. Among 

 the BloopB, JVimbus, though hideously ugly, showed that she 

 had speed in her of no mean quality, and what with smart. 

 handling managed to give those of the lamer class the go-by, 

 with any amount of time to spare. The. judges wen: Messrs. 

 Feet, R. 0. Field and G. M. MeNulty, and followed the 

 racers in the Oyclops over the course. 



Schooners were classed over and under 75ft. on water line, 

 sloops, over 45ft., :J. r )fr. to -loft, and under 35ft. It took an 

 extra whistle to get away the sloops, who did not, seem to 

 understand the directions. With numerous entries this little 

 piece of charity on the part of the committee might have led 

 to protests from those that did get away at the proper lime; 

 but fortunately no such trouble arose this time. Ilowever.it 

 is well not to he too indulgent, foi surely skippers Could not 

 ask for simpler instructions than those of the printed circu- 

 lar. The wind at the lime was moderate Erotb S. E ; lide 

 runningfull ebb. The fleet, which had been standing off and 

 on, finally bore up and made a dash for the line. 'Dolphin, 

 taking advantage of a puff, went across at a. good pact, and 

 Triton followed. The rot. were very tardy and sooner Of later 

 some of them will be heavily handicapped "tor lagging and fil- 

 ing over the bay when they should be near the start, especially 

 when the breeze is fitful and apt to leave some of them in ihe 

 lurch at the critical moment. Sadie followed .{ mile astern, 

 with a big club topsail aloft and a whacking mainsail, on ac- 

 count of her mast being in her eyes, making her rig a good 

 deal like that of a huge cat-boat. Then tollowcd Agnes and 

 pot-leaded Peerless not far astern. The times were taken as 

 under : 



OLAB8 B— ScffOONBKS. 

 Name owner. n. U, 8, 



Peerless J R Maxwell n no so 



Triton Uouiuj.iilore Thayer 11 in to 



Agnes L A Fish 11 69 06 



CLASS O - CABIN SLOOPS. 



Dolphin ,T W Cooper 10 53 55 



SauiB UECole lo or, i5 



CLASS D— CABIN SLOOPS. 



Winsome Jit Purity u 08 51 



Geuia TPFislce l. 07 69 



CLASS E— CAIUN SLOOPS. 



Nimbus L II Eiigeluw i i; ■:.. 



The schooner Atalanta and the sloop Orion went oat with 

 the fleet, and Cornet followed later. It was a pity that, Orion 

 had not entered the lists, for in Sadie she bad a worthy oppo- 

 nent, both of them being noted jammers, ami a light between 

 the two would have materially added to the Interest of the 

 match. That Dolphin, an old-timer, could have done so well 

 and come so near making her time on Sadie is one of the mar- 

 vels of the day, and shows what good tooling will do as a 

 make-up for lack in form, for to the excellent manner in 

 which the craft of many years was handled we must ascribe 

 the close push she gave Herreshoff's turn-out, All handB 

 kept pinned in to do their beat, stood along the Long Island 

 shore till they were headed and had to make a board or two 

 to fetch through the Narrows. Agnes did well front the word 

 go and showed well to windward, when she went about 

 abreast of Fort Wadsworth. As the wind freshened and the 

 Cyclops passed the Orion, the latter just laid her rail in ami 

 was going along in fine style, with her veteran skipper, Ooth- 

 modore Cooper, casting a weather-eye aloft every now aDd 

 then at his gear and' relishing the slashing pare of his pet 

 craft, for CycUtps had to -wag her screw pretty lively to cut 

 across his bows. By the time Hoffman Island bore South, 

 Agnes i had spun out a fine lead, with Dolphin to leeward of 

 her and Pee) less not far astern, with Sadie ou her weather 

 quarter, standing up like the proverbial steeple. Triton 

 about a quarter of a mile in Peerless' wake. Then there was a 

 long break, with the other sloops strung out all the way up 

 to the Narrows, A'imbus having a decided had among them. 

 The wind now veered to the southward, and the fleet was 

 compelled to make long and short legs of it to fetch tlla spin- 

 dle on the spit, 

 Off Dix's Island Dolphin had regained her lead, and Peei-- 



fe« was waking up. Then Dolptdn went to the fi 



long leg, the rest of them working in shorter boards 

 channel. The two sloops held a belter wind than the schoon- 

 ers, for they all crossed under their sterns upon coming about, 

 Agnes, however, working out to windward in quite Wonderful 

 style. Her canvas is a beautifully setting loi of muslin, and 

 she does not lose many jioiuts on an 1 1 n •-:-• ot her 



duds, that is certain. When Dolphin had got far enough to 

 the south she put her helm down and could lay her course for 

 the spindle with something to spare, so she was first in the lot 

 to set a jib-topsail. When Sadie, ou the short leg, bore down 

 again she crossed under Mr Cooper's stem, and it was evi- 

 dent Dolphin had gained by standing to the southward so long. 

 Atalanta had beat down with the fleet, and about held her 

 own, always giving way and beeping to leeward of the racers, 

 which courtesy, we hope, was fully appreciated by some of 

 the smaller ones, whom she hail many opportunities of blank- 

 eting. Light duds wete now being got ready, preparatoiy to 

 the round. Dolphin doused her small jib-topsail and set a 

 big balloonor instead, but, steering wide of the marl 

 Peerless to squeeze around the Southwest Spit in the lead. 

 The rest followed at close intervals ; Peerlesi, lib 36m. 80s.: 

 Dolphin, 12h, 36m. 30s.- Agnes, 12h. 87m.{ Sadu, 12h. 37m, 



