FOREST fAND * STREAM. 



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the very ground, at least I used to Bay so to his owner. I 

 •only saw that dog twice out in the field, and never saw him on 

 potnl I te seemed to have no nose, although bin vnastei great- 

 ly prized him, perhaps, merely for tin: originality of his 

 size. He retrieved, however fin very well, bringing a hare 



I'tn rabbi I a Drafter; of a mile, if necessary; hut asbeswal- 



lowed two nr three partridges I voted him rather tie trop, and 



hcggod to be excused killing game to such a brute. On the 



other hand, 1 have ;,ren some pointers 5fl Germany (not to be. 



t> nil German p.iintcisi which were excellent in their 



lien again, tastes differ. A German shooter expects 



if point everything^ and to remain steady until the 



pen, But undei' covert, the dog is 



to spring roebucks, hares, and rabbits, and. mirabile 

 I hen : 

 The r.inijue do Bourbounais looks, at a distance, uncom- 

 monly like the old English bub-tail sheep-dog, but of course 

 haired, IDs tail, however, is naturally a regular 

 stump. Query: How did this hereditary short tall occur? 

 In look I his Btaque sans grume is not, exactly fascinating. He 

 is a sturdy, stumpy, coarse-looking fellow j but under all this 

 coarseness, this Bourbottnais Braque hides an extraordinary 

 intelligence, and most remarkable aptitude. I once sent one 

 1 ' in old friend, while 1 was in fiance, about ten years 

 ago, and he wrote hack as follows : " I did not -want a sheep 

 dog! What have you sent me one for?'' I replied, "Try 

 him in the field ;" and he found him such a nice companion, 

 and so well suited to his age (he was nearly seventy), that he 

 declared the dog to be the best he had ever had. This dog 

 had a double nose, a peculiarity which is cried down by some 

 people who have never tried the dogs, but who object on 

 principle, of course, to anything of which they know absolute- 

 ly nothing. Now, in practice, a double-nosed pointer is per- 

 haps not better than an ordinary nosed one, but he certainly, 

 and emphatically, is not worse, and that is a great thing to 

 say. Moreover, for finding birds in very hot weather (putting 

 aside pace) 1 have rarely seen anything so good as two or 

 three double-nosed dogs belonging to the breed 1 am now al- 

 luding to, and if prejudices could be put, aside, I should like. 

 no tried by competent authorities, and 1 warrant, 

 1 ■ i ojigs would, judiciously crossed, greatly improve in nose 

 certain breeds of British pointers which have all that could 

 be wished for in pace and style, but arc wonderfully deficient 

 in making out their birds, and finding out whether they arc 

 still ••there," or "have been" there, and are gone. 



L'epagncnl is not, as his name would imply, a spaniel. An 

 ajagneul on the Continent is a setter, and the breeds are there 

 simply innumerable, and are not distinguished bj any particu- 

 lar names. All setting dugs with long and silky hair are 

 Our regular spaniels are called pet-is epng- 



nick 

 There 



id a 



ngthr 



n by 

 ist be 



•a rely 



re understood to 



Hot to set, at it. There arc but few of the latter class ever 



lie Continent, except by Englishmen. Continental 



Sportsmen decidedly have, a preference, for setting dogs to 



springers, hence the depreciation in which are held the latter. 



The r.V.vv : ! ,rding to my opinion, is simply a cross of 



i i in und with a smooth pointer, or long-haired setter. I 

 is undoubtedly a very ugly dog. coarse, ill-built, but daringt 

 ardent, indefatigable.' lie' will gn through a thicket, however 

 impenetrable, and if there is game there, out if must come, 

 WiniWWfetti* he will find it out, and clear the place of it, 

 The Griffon, therefore, has some good qualities, but it ia a 

 ','',,! jol to break him: and as to classifying! 

 rights with setting or pointing dogs, why surely there n 



ere itWtOO of imagination. The Griffon 



{paints at all of his own accord: those who do have been a 

 (•nig period trained for it, and make a bad sort of point. In 

 short, t hat, si n't of dog is not at all bad for beating about a very 

 rough country, hUt pointing is not by any means their most 

 brilliant point, (Excuse the bad pun.) 



And the same is to be said of the Jiarbet. The Barbet is 

 Simply a, water spaniel. Now, my Diver was as good an Irish 

 water spaniel as ever lived: he certainly used to make a sort 

 of point(amicioscopiealone), and then up he would get the 

 birds : and so do Barbets, only with this difference, thai their 

 petals are even far less pronounced than my late Diver's short 

 step. However. Barbets are called chkns d'arret (setting or 

 pointing dogs), on the Continent, and, while protesting 

 against "(he appellation, it was my duly to notice them. They 

 are excellent water dogs, will beat, reeds, etc, admirably, And 

 the birds well, bolt them well, and retrieve, them capitally -, 

 bul that is all that cau be said in their favor, for there is really 

 no cataleptic aptitude in them, and, therefore, why they 

 Should be classed by the French authors as setting dogs fairly 

 be^ts "this child." In looks. Griffons are like coarse setters. 

 with something like an otter-hound's coat on. Barbels look, 

 and are, I verily believe, mere, poodles. Now, by all that's 

 ■ . ever did sec. a poodle on point— except, perhaps on 

 a mutton-chop? No, no, Messrs. Kevoil, do la JNeuville, and 

 others, as lawyers say. your books on sport, are extremely in- 

 teresting, and very clever, but, may it please your authorships, 

 we can't swallow a pointing or setting poodle, and that is the 

 plain fact. 



Should any of my readers wish to get more information on 

 the subject of setting dogs on I he Continent, 1 would recom- 

 mend them to procure "Le Ohassv cm dhi.cn d' Arret,'' by the 

 Viscount, de la Neuville, and the "Sistowedes Ch/ens," by Be- 

 voil. There are in both works, numerous and somewhat in- 

 excusable mistakes, which the average British sportsman will 

 at once defect, so that, he really could not be led 

 the general hints are interesting. To give an ins 

 ludicrous errors into which the last-named author a 

 reader will find, page 103 in I, is book, the lollowi 

 rate, quite new information, 



"Cockers and springers are the dogs winch Eng' 

 fcr for grouse shooting, because they never go fa 

 master, quarter brilliantly, and then suddenly come to a 



point '" 



Good, is it not? Aecuno. 



th< 



rfrc 



A "Whopper."— The Newcastle Paragraph tells a splen- 

 did li— story of a fat, cur which entered a ground-hog's bur- 

 row, and was unable to hack out on account of the large quan- 

 tity of loose earth which he had thrown in a heap behind him. 

 Realizing his terrible, situation he. set to work to dig liis way 



out. which he Blieec •}<'>'■ 'i'//-e,' : j?'i day. <d 



hard labor. When he emerged he was lean as a skeleton and 



his toe-nails worn off, possessing but. ju^t strength C gl 



i.o crawl homo. The point at which he emerged was some 

 twelve or fifteen yards from the entrance to the burrow. 



—Mr. A. E. Godeffroy's 

 twelve magnificent pups on 

 wood's Sancho, ;- t nd Queen 



A COCKER KENNEL. 



Editor Fokest and BTREAM; 



When there is anything good in the country people like to 



know where if is to be found, To those of your readers who 



aire in dogs, and especially in cocker spaniels, a word 



about the kennel of 'Mr. F. H. Hoe, of Tarrytown, N. Y., 



might ba interesting. 



That gentleman resides ou one. of those lovely eminences 

 that, overlook the Hudson, where he takes pleasure iu keeping 

 and raising high-minded, aristocratic cooker spaniels. Being 

 deeply interested in this particular species of Ihe genus coi/a, 

 he devotes himself personally to the care and training of his 



I would like to see a picture of the animals that now com- 

 pose his kennel They would make a handsome group. The 

 position of honor of course would be given to Witch, the pater- 

 familias, because he has been out in the world and has gained 

 for himself no small degree of reputation. His picture ap- 

 peared lately iu Harper's Weekly as the winner of both the 

 first prize and the special prize at the recent dog show in New 

 York. He is the three-year-old son of Romeo and Juliette, 

 and is a thoroughly {rained dog. He has a cocker spaniel 

 head of the most approved type. It is not necessary, how- 

 ever, to enumerate his good qualities, for his pedigree and fine 

 points have already been dwelt upon sufficiently since he be- 

 gan his public career. His reputation is secure and irre- 

 proachable. 



But Witch has a dangerous rival in Madge, the prospective 

 rnatei familias of the kennel. She was purchased by Mr Hoe 

 from Mr. S. .). Bestor, of Hartford, the well-known importer 

 of cocker spaniels, who had reserved her out of a litter from 

 Juliette by Snip, for his mvn use in kennel and field. She is 

 now about ten months old, and is a remarkable animal, not 

 only for beauty but for intelligence and disposition. She is a 

 most affectionate creature, and takes an idea like a flash. Al- 

 though she lias not been through a regular course of training 

 herself, she has learned from observation of the other dogs to 

 retrieve and down charge, beautifully. Like Witch, she is a 

 handsomcl}' marked liver and white, and is beautifully feather- 

 ed. In " headpiece," and particularly in eyes, she will sur- 

 pass even Witch. Her ears are well attached, and her cbcsl 

 is strong and well-developed. Her fore-legs are white, dis- 

 tinctly ticked. 



Mr. Bestor. her breeder and former owner, says of her: "I 

 had reserved Madge for my own use in the kennel and field, 

 and part with her with a degree of regret to Mr. Hoe, although 

 I am glad she goes into the ownership of an appreciative and 

 intelligent gentleman. Madge 1 regard as a representative 

 cocker bitch, and I am free to acknowledge her as one. of the 

 best, if not the best, specimen, I ever bred. She. is sure to make 

 a reputation for herself, her owner and her breeder." Witch 

 and Madge being both the offspring of first class imported 

 dogs, Mr. Hoc is just in expecting great things of them, and I 

 feel confident that he will not be disappointed. Nellie and 

 Wag, both pure liver, complete, the group. Nellie is the 

 daughter of Puss by Fly. She recovered recently from a dis- 

 temper, which was cured by doses of aconite and nux-vomiea, 

 five drops every three hours. She is just now convalescing 

 from a perforating ulcer of the eye, which Mr. Hoe cured by 

 belladonna In some potent, form. I did not inquire particu- 

 larly about the mode of treatment for the two maladies, but 

 Mr. Hoe would no doubt furnish the particulars to any one 

 who might have need of information on the subject. Wag, 

 the lively son of Witch aud Nellie, is a dog of the place, 

 having been born and bred on the spot. There is a strong re- 

 semblance between him and his dam, and both are exception- 

 ally fine animals. These four will soon go into their new 

 quarters — a fine house with all modern conveniences, in which 

 the strictest sanitary laws are to be enforced. Diet, light, 

 temperature and exercise will be regulated for the highest 

 good of the dogs. 



It is surprising that cocker spaniels arc so little known 

 and appreciated among American sportsmen. They need 

 only to he known to be appreciated. If they were kept 

 only as pets or house dogs they would give infinitely more 

 Satisfaction than nine-tenths of 'the other dogs that are de- 

 voted to that service. They arc surprisingly handsome, in- 

 telligent and affectionate, and I hope that we shall soon see 

 more of them adorning our fields aud lawns. Falsam. 



Kennel of E. 8. Wanmaker This kennel 1b located on what, is 



known as " Saddle Elver " road, BUB and a quarter mllea fromHobokus 

 Station 0( Erie Hallway. The valley derives its nnmo from the stream 

 (Saddle River) whieh i-oarses at the very door of Mr. Wanmaker's 



affot 



• an 



in lain- 



i for ! 



the dogs during the heated weather. The kennel consists of twenty 

 stalls, three feel square, running the. entire length of a large commodi- 

 ous bam, and is ventilated from four sides, above aud below. For 

 coolness in summer it has no superior, and can be made warm and 

 com fortaole in winter. There is roomfor one hundred dogs. The mil- 

 let from the kennel leads into Ihe exercising grounds, which consist of 

 a fine grass plat-upward Of three acres— nicely shaded by a thrifty 

 apple orchard. TIere the dogs are allowed to rim three times daily— one 

 hour in Ihe morning, a Half hoar at noon and an hour again at evening. 

 Water from the well la furnished litem fresh twice daily, and always 

 remains In vessels at etie.li stall night and day. The diet is of the very 

 best, and is given in abundance twice dully, morning and night. Mr. 

 Wanmakcr states that by this mode of feedin.' his .logs are. kept not 

 only ia better condition and health, but also quiet aU the. time. Kverj r- 



I Uioi 



t nresi 



y fin 



ones— Gordon, English and Irish getters, Besides oir- aogs hoarding 



there, are four belonging to Mr. W.— Ripple, by Pride of the Itorder 

 out of Jessie, a very promising puppy ; Leaf, a red and white Irish 

 puppy, by riankett out of Stella, is a fine specimen of her race. But 



there are others equally as line, and a visit, to this kennel will repay 

 any lover pi canines. Mr. \V. invites Inspection, aud will he glad to en- 



i who may come. 



Those who havs 

 and Stream or th 

 Mr. Arnold Burge 

 Pedigrees must lit 

 of the Stud Boon. 



NOTICE, 



NAL AMERICAN KENNEL CI.EB STUB BOOK. 



ot sent pedigrees of their dogs to either the Fobest 

 :7'wa ; /o Fmlil will please forward same at once to 

 Hillsdale, Michigan, who is compiling the work. 

 ■at before September 1st to appear in the first volume 

 t is intended to record the pedigrees of pointers, 

 retrievers of all kinds. Entries of pedigrees are 

 long their dogs to be entered in the first volume 

 i anal notice, 



L. H. Smith, 



THE KENNEL FTELD THIALS. 



NvSTtvii.tj;, July 18, 1877. 



EntTOB FOEEST AND STREAM : 



"We are all fixing up for the field trials, and will certainly 

 make them more successful than any held lure before, From 

 what we can learn twice as many dogs will he entered as last, 

 year. We have a fine prospect for birds everywhere, aurl 

 especially so on the grounds over which the trials i too 

 run. In addition to what will he raised en the groundB, we 

 intend turning loose several hundred more before the begin- 

 ning of the trials, so that we may batf( i h - I H adog 



tn moke his fine points without hunting all fay Our sports- 

 men are enthusiastic on the subject, and are all working with 

 a vim. Quite a number of home dogs will he run, and we 

 hear of quite a number from your section, which Will be 

 entered and run by the NashvfJJc Kennel. Geo. 0. Colburn, 

 of your city, will prohablv have two in Fred Massov, of 

 Brooklyn, one, and Alfred' .Jenkins, Jr.. of Baltimore, two, 

 native (Mrs, except one, as Bmges and Smith would style tin in. 

 But native or not, if we can only gel Massey's Duke, 

 Youmans Taylor's old Sancho, and Sancho's ptip, young 

 Sancho, property of Geo, 0. Colburn, down here in time, we 

 will make Smith think that his blue bloods are nut quite in- 

 vincible, notwithstanding the snubbing manner in which he 

 spoke of old one-eyed Sancho ami his get. All these dogs of 

 which we speak will probably be. run from Nashville Kennel, 

 and all are natives except Alfred Jenkins' imported red Irish 

 dog Berg. By the way, Mr. Haniillon S. (Sittings,. Who has 

 charge of Nashville Kennel, is one of your men. He was 

 raised in Baltimore, and has broken in that section for some 

 years, breaking some of the best dogs there. He is now per- 

 manently located here at the seal of the Held trials. Let his 

 friends know where to find him. Our sportsmen are now 

 lying idle waiting for dove shooting, which will begin the 

 first of next, month, as you are aware we have no woodcock in 

 this State, as they do not breed here. Wc, however, find a 

 few scattering ones in the fall and spring. II. M. 



Bio Dog Story. — Under this caption the Popular Science 

 Monthly for August, '77, publishes the following letter: 



The perusal of the inter, 

 in the December Monthly ; 

 me to recall to memory a 

 character which came undi 

 years ago. I was then ) 

 Texas. ~ ( me day I. was called to see a 

 the wife of a German butcher. As 1 

 house where she lived, I was met 



Q y, 



tt plei 

 able t 



obser 



Sagacity" 



md caused 

 the same 

 about two 

 nediojiie in Galveston, 

 patient. Mrs. Wechsler, 

 entered the hall of the 

 a large black dog, who 

 under no consideration would let me pass, until Mr. Wechslei 

 bimsGlf came to pacify and assure him all was right. The 

 dog then followed us into the sick room, aud, while 1 was ex- 

 amining the patient, the dog was watching all ruy movements 

 most attentively. When I departed I noticed I was followed 

 by the dog, who did not leave until he had seen mc enter my 

 office. A few days after this the dog entered my office, appa- 

 rently very uneasy about something. The thought struck me 

 at once that perhaps 1 might he wanted : so 1 put on my hat 

 and followed the dog, who immediately Btarted for home, 

 where I found Mrs. Wechslei sick in bed, with no one in Ihe 

 house to attend her. She was surprised at my timely call, and 

 when I told her that I had been called by the dog, she related to 

 me what was even more astonishing. She had suddenly been 

 seized with a violent attack of vomiting fifteen or twenty min- 

 utes previously, when the dog had picked up an empty tin 

 pan and placed it beside her bed before running for the doateir. 

 This dog, who was only eight months old, had never received 

 any kind of training. It is therefore evident that something 

 like the following train of thought must have passed through 

 his mind : Seeing me examine the patient and prescribe for 

 her, he must, have' conceived the idea that t was the proper 

 person to be there when she was sick. Having made up his 

 mind on this point, the next thing to he done was to find out 

 where I lived; aud this he did by accompanying me to my 

 office. Seeing her vomit, ho brought her a tin pan, which ho 

 had probably seen her use for that purpose, aud then set out 

 for my office. The dog called for me a number of times at'-- 

 terwa'rd, but never without my services were needed. He 

 was never told to fetch me, but determined himself when it 

 was necessary to do so. John Suxdbep.os, 



Baltimore, Deo. 4, 1870. 



Chairman N. A, K, r\ s, B, Compiling Committee, ' Putnam's 1 G,n, 



Good Dog. — A merchant of Paris has a handsome country 

 house, in the environs, which is occupied but two months in 

 the year, at other times being left in the nm of an old pen- 

 sioner, Lerat byname. The first of last May two men in 

 blouses stopped before Lerat's door, carrying a large box which 

 they asked leave to deposit for an hour id the garden, pro- 

 fessinsr to be unable to carry it further on account of its 

 weight. Assent befog given, the box was set down behind 

 the stable and the men departed. Just, at evening Leral was 

 attracted by the loud and continued barking of his dog, and, 

 tracing the animal, found him standing guard over the box 

 and who, on the appearance of his master, began to scratch at 

 the box, snarl, and show his fangs. Creeping up cautiously, 

 Feral delected a movement within, when he ran for assistance. 

 Procuring the gardener, and arming themselves with guns, 

 the two men approached the chest. Opening it suddenly 

 they discovered a blue-hloused occupant, who darted out and 

 attempted to escape. Covering him with his gun, Lerat 

 called upon him to halt, when the would-be robber fell upon 

 his knees, begging for mercy, offering to confess every thing. 

 He was handed over to the gensihirme, however, who that 

 night, planned a trap by menus of which the two accomplices. 

 were captured in [lit act of burglarizing Hi" IrhiS". The 

 three men are now serving out sentences in the galleys. -Per 



Waidmann, 



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Dog Snow rs Illinois.— There is serious talk of a bench 

 how to he held at, Bloomington, in order to increase the in 

 terest of sportsmen in high-bred flogs. 



— During a thunderstorm two dogs [bat howled dismally at 

 night were struck bv lightning and killed. Howling dogs 

 should cut this out and paste it in their hats.- ~ N»rri&U>wn 

 Herald. 



m.\CEs Claimkd.— Mr. P. H. Morris claims the names of 

 Czarand Sultana for two lemon-and-white i . ■■■, . .. 

 puppies. They are from Smith's Strathroy kennel. 



—I claim the, name But for my lemon and white setter dog, 

 whelped Feb. 1,1877; bred by Ethan Allen, of Pomf ret Cen- 

 tre, Conn. B.T. Hammond. 



—Mr. Robert H. Morris claims the name of Con for his red 

 Irish setter pup, by F. A. Y\ 



T>,„„.,rv,'u Hull 



