Ajjwost ;y, 158**1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



71 



QQ— Best pointer dog or bitch, gun cover, value $8, 



i Binglsh setter puppy, the get of Prince Royal, 

 "Vero Shaw 1 ? Bonk on Dogs," 



88— A-aiericau Co -k-u- Spaniel Club e-j V es sin cash for tlie 

 best cocker spaniel, dog or bitch, owned anil exhibited by a 



i "' club. 



The entries Col ail special prizes are free, and no entries are 



atiny side, who kno 



is laughing heartily as 1 



say withr 

 have the 



Why the devil don't the fellr 



announced through the papers. ' 

 Entiii .-'■ i ■■■ ,ib«r 19. 



DOGS AND CRITICS. 



Kdito)' /''../cv' n,n<l Stmim: 



Over a month ago, one Friday evening, at about eight bells, 

 as I sat, upon the beach here, with liokl-gless Ul hand, watch- 

 iii,: a big, whole-, ame looking schooner, with reefed canvas, 

 .la nie/a wa,v into the white broken beauty of the fretted 

 Atlantic, and wishing with all my heart 1 was aboard of her, 

 a friend came down and handed me my copy of your journal 

 of the 12th of July. 



I am always glad to receive Forest and Htrbam. It tells 

 racsuni. i i !■■" i. But this particular number contained 

 two of the vaguest, most vulgar, and pointless letters in the 

 ;i It on nn- it has been my misfortune to 

 read in a long while. They were signed respectively, "O. F. 

 Le'and.l. S.W'jven I was sorry to have my musings inter- 

 rupted by BUCh reminders of the utter emptiness of some, 

 ,s. Km i i tat that pleasant drea 



el, .( 



git* 



rith 



.. ■ ■ i L ad i ade m 



,, ,i, ru,. sunset seas, da 



woo the v ■•■,- revelled i 



winds in their freshness and freet 

 n -I .i.i: .... -.-a, faultless as a i 

 me. It had be, -a in a compiamu 

 although the on. soliti y BChoonei 

 it wise to Shorten Etui, each I 

 came with blanched lips to muri 

 feet seemed e/en'.lor than the last 

 subdued. For the ilea hath its vi 

 is the bom of t,be woodland-, and tl: 

 Have you not heard btoo , w ixd an 



In Eng 





ii the bench-show qnalitief 

 drdwp, then can that distil 

 i believe the orb of night 



To return fo Mr. Niven. He answers my state.] 

 the defective qualities of -oine breeds of our doses 

 I meut to upset mv opinions, but charges 

 tise nry dogs and kennel free I" How I'd love 



Mv Fditor. ace, rding to my feelings, if von A 

 ise bo print my words. Bet me. however, pa 

 thai I have iv) "kenuel" at present. Home ti 

 dogs-retaining only ft 



ebeat the 

 it, is it anj 



"Anglicized !' 



.at they havi 



1 they can show one hundn 

 t one, 'and having more to eh. 



ally beat us more times than w 

 discovers this, and j ■ 



Brown must. Be I i 



over there in the" same 



Jones thinks for the i 



tention and care to breeding than we hi 



have more leisure to do it, therefore he < 



of English dogs are better than ours, i; 



intelligence and discernment on Smith's 



Jones for being ''Anglicized?" 



—one of England's foremost thinkers— ci 



and traveled, then returned to his 

 and pi 



,111 uatur- 



ertain of my dog; 



ipon me for the v 



The dogs dispose 



waits and rides 



nents as to 



CvacC:. if*. 



:■ to reply to tin's, 



frfiuld only prom- 



..ifically resi tond 



■ ■. . i parted 



five for 



■. for 



n/]ltl. 



.11',. tl. 



■ I ha 



ith's part, 

 use, Mr. H. 



his wonder at 



our res 



make a n 



atiot 



'. ,.-:.-, 11 



were the 



grea 





friends. , 



vho t 





as an "A 



nerir 





Voursho 



r fell 



short .; 



your eon 



jhisii 



ns are i 



records o 



Kami 



ned, th 



if dear dead days. Of 

 home beyond the Sier- 

 s in which I loved to 



[heir strength, and the 

 in. The great sea, the 

 .wer, stretched beyond 



mood all clay. "And 

 within vision deemed 

 seessive breaker that 

 tr to the sand at my 



It» voices were more 

 ;es too, even as there 



und- i-i of the air. 



le, all alone on the deep, 

 art .,■ : ■!:■,! iid-clasp. or • kis from beauty on a dis- 



the faces of the loved and lost; And how like bells in chime 

 these voices sounded, soft and low, ana sweet and comforting! 

 And then how grand and awful, when the tempest went out 

 to conquer, and strove in battle, with the terrors of the night, 

 and your ship, bndsed and buffeted, shivered in agony like a 

 living thins— how terrible those voices sounded, and how you 



i ' ,;., . i , lemoming! And when the dawn 



kindled into day. and yen belied the gates ajar through 



which its a i . a.u.-lv. and tiie wind grew silent, 



anil the linger of sic p touched the waters, did you not hear 



and sounding a . • •■ ' melody of many whispers 



from i he. weariedjsea as if a great hymn of joy came from 

 its throbbing hi si ' . . i-ing thanks forpeaee and rest? 



I hive heard Ui , a. .'..."! roices SO often, have been now 



soothed and now thrilled with them, yet, 1 will tire of them 

 noverm..ra. And if seam, to me, such a sudden and disagree- 

 able shock to turn from nature and hercharms, her influences, 

 whore, all is noble, generous and lofty, to hear andiead the 

 peevish, puerile assaults made upon me by one J. S. Niven and 

 "O. F. L." 



I detest to indulge in personalities, eescept someone need- 

 lessly, recklessly and in a virulent manner assails me or my 

 motives. Then, if the editor will publish all 1 say, my pen 

 will nol ru-t, and mv motto will be, "Bay on Macduff, and 

 damned be he who Hrel cries, hold, enough)" 



I believe in disou witl the pen all sorts of 



questions, just as I believe in public debate between poli- 



-,,-nis In the latter case, men don't call 



lr ,|\ ,,',, r hurl base insinuations at each other. 



They are too close together, and it might not be wise, 

 even if prudent Hut on the subject oi dogs and bench shows 

 a man offers opinions nolitolv, and with purest motives, and 

 ouilomesa efiorusoi yetoers, who howl at him derisively 

 from behind signbomds.and fencesaud corner-grocery barrels! 

 Whv can't nam who have anything true and sensible ... say. 

 say It without using ollousive personal allusion... or hurling 

 vindictive innuendoes; Why can t they advance tncir views 

 in civil language, jus! as two intelligent and cultured oppo- 

 nents i or a -nb'-ruatorial seat would do. "ere they discussing 

 national affairs in the presence ot their constituents. Why 

 don't men write over their own name-.; 1 his can be done, tail 

 il is not. Some of us who differ as to the rare personal beau- 

 ties of certain breed- of our dogs, and say so distmotlj no 

 not rudelv. and who never rc fer W t heir masters oy word or 

 hint, are mi hat we have changed our identity, 



and whereas we were once known as gentlemen u\ our 

 friend.-, w-r ,• • now mctaniorph03erl into liar-, tr: 

 lei),. us will,..'.' lOUls higenough to be damned w-itli. u.: 

 read some of these personal ilmgs. then look in oni liiuiois 

 fiBD Wfl hac. th. .otiaii, andjostta 



amazement tauntta lv i. . solve w 



.is Englisl 

 iiunst bin 

 "(3. F. B.' 



You may not be a, man after all, how can I tell by your 

 initials; And if von are one ot the dogs 1 found fault with at 

 the show, and chose "jO, F. L." as your name, which means 

 "old, faulty Baverack," then have I not one word to say, for 

 I condemned you, and vou bark back at me. But if you are 

 a man, vou should recollect I made no allusion to you, or any 

 owner of dogs, personally, and if you simply wanted to be 

 disagreeable without being sensible, you should be 

 aware that politeness is the curb which should hold your 

 worser self in cheek, and you ought to have kept, 

 silence accordingly. As regards the "holding up" of the 

 greyhound Friday Night, so thath' ' 



apart, that is a — 

 like it, he could ha 



don't behove in "y: 



I elite 



of f, 

 cd. 1 1 



oy, andift 



ill auswei 



lain 



did it come, 1 '1.1.1,- • I ■ gar -.-" alur-si ruins a dog, and. nave 

 so recorded my opinion in fact, I was fair and trank enough 

 to find as many (if not more) faults with my own dogs as 

 with those of anybody else, uotwithstandingthey were always 

 first. 



Tin- last clause in your letter, wherein I am charged with 

 being "disagreeable'' is. to say the least, more pointed than 

 polite, more empratto than elegani n .el- a" a e- ta-.iai'ai 



assurance that, "O. F. B." is as much of a novice m courtesy 

 and sensible, argument, as he is in canine lore. "Manners 

 maketh man," William of Wickham (or WAkeham) said. 

 Will they evar make one of "0. V. Lf" 



\ few words now about one J. S. Niven, twin hero with 

 Mr. Kirk, of Mr. Mason's novelette last week. He has goae 

 along mile out of his wa.3 to throw mud at me personally, 

 Never to my taowlei lea- have I trodden on hts toes or intruded 

 on his privacy. He IS an unknown quantity to ma And 

 until Mr. Mason held up his portrait to my gaze. 1 v. as un- 

 aware such an individual had "local habitation or a name." 

 Now that. I know he is in the flesh, when he disproves anything 

 I have written, and convinces mo he is a practical judge of 

 dogs, 1 will talk with him on paper. We never could hold 

 communion any other wav. All I can say is, if he has been 

 solicited to take pen in hand and launch personalities at me in 

 Mr. Kirk's defense, eiiher as a man or a judge, and hurl defi- 

 ance at me because 1 uttered the naked truth, then is he en- 

 gaged in a very poor and unmanly business. 



I will quote some of his personalities, and ask from you. Mr. 

 Kdiior, the. privilege of a reply. 1 will be as little persona] as 

 possible. He writes, in referring to me by name, as follows : 

 "In his criticisms on the dogs and judges of tiie iafe New York 

 show, he has succeeded in bringing himself pretty prominently 

 into notice, and if he wished to adverii:-- in- .!••_- and kennel 

 free, I think he has succeeded beyond his utmost expectation, 

 and Mr. .Mason ought 60 pay him' in part." 



Mr Kdiior, in "(lavs of old." this Would have be.a h 1,1 :>■■ 

 pivttv tough language to overlook, but in the present pacific 

 state of the age.there seems to me only two ways of treating it 

 —either by replyingin kiud.audsoas not to be nn- md.-rdood. 

 orbx entire silence, thatconien.pt whmhis hkB bhehotirpn 

 used' in branding criminals: i s imprint le aim et always in- 

 delible. 1 rather choose the f< 

 that it has 



■e-|... 



the\ 



.'ill 1 



liter 



.. _jason" that now th . 

 responsible or masked scrib- 

 replv to them in such a vein 

 ug them their souls have gone 



■ e:q,r 



•r is nol forbiddc 

 ueed to vou. -M 

 Id be glad to ha 



1 fr 



:c country, where court* 



When Iliad the pleasu 



Editor, you politely infc 



:iy cheap 



!ia-. 



-11 . 



bv .Mr. c. H. tVtasou in this week's pane 

 sei before us no ar. ;i..l..l.;. I'. r->ua! : 

 tions are not ai„um.nl. i ley rather si 

 o-isy. and botli Of these are the tri 

 inferiority pays to brain, These writer 

 single word I wrote about the May bene 

 ent'lyknow httle of nothing of eaninei 

 neither has attempted Co answer my ^ 

 intelhaently, both seem to prefer to di 

 as unfonn led in fact, as thev are clums 



n 



iy "tl. F. B." and 

 l'e-lv slaughtered 

 particular pair 

 . and in-.naa- 

 envy W jeal- 

 ir homage that 

 t disprove one 

 They appar- 

 jr demerits, as 

 ;s intelligibly or 

 .0 personalities, 

 expression. Are 



these writers tin- hired bravos of timid exhibitors, or a hard- 

 Jut and drowning judge' Scarcely, Mr. Editor, could you 

 have eiveu those effusions a careful reading, or tueth nksthey 

 would never have been admitted to vour ho-pii il,|. ■■o.uuni-. 

 1 began n.\ let Ins to your napi r with -malice toward none. 

 With chaiitvforall. 1 found faull Old v with I he dogs showu, 

 notwiththeir ...a -l.i -.or i tau .,..,-i,-i-- allies or confederates. 



■\nd now com'- liere.lv these two and call me names, who 

 never heard of or did harm to them. 



I called certain exhibited (logs "a wrri.-he.i lot.' And -.. 

 they were. It was I ruth, hard. =olid truth, no matter how 

 main- bench -hows i; -pods. Love of my own couniry 



pnei 1 me to say it, and. to m i 1 impress lb, so that pro- 



, - ot making ours the best dogs. "O. F, B." 

 says not a word which disproves me, but takes up his pop- 

 eim loads her under the wing of night, and call me an 

 "Anglicized American 1" That's reallv very amusing. A friend 



them of thos 



e exhibit- 



1 ih 



;re, oa 



pe 



•ia 



lv. 



lover of these friend* 



ol 



man 





id 



one \ 



hours mark 



ed well th 



•ir \ 



7& ys 



•!l 



1 1 



1 1 lit, 



me pleasure 



to do so, v 



Be] 



the 



m 



lie 





It was very 

 cam from a 

 notice." A n 



which deve] 



'ar from 

 y own. to 

 ublie life, 

 ement" in 

 ifloat. to 

 op muscle 



e', !; 

 1 so 



ii. 



Hid 



brain 







0.1 

 id 



s 



ture. which 















dices. My 



object w 





i 1 1 1 1 j 1 > 









attention t 



5 defects 

 for ':>■■ -■ 



'V,' 



d ne 









as I nearly a 













.;:-:. 



for I loathe 















masked bat 

































All 



hones 



t 1 



a; 



need 



of his name 



and ti ta 



irs 



alid-l 



P 





.bat 





'Bench Sb 



)WS 



' : and 









or 1 



antly and good-humor 



: - 



to re 



al 



■ 11 



cridei 



experience, 



apposing 1 







centlj 









interest to 11 















a comempoi 



dry joiun.- 



1. u 



ho ha 



s II 









ecious life- 













deavors to 



ollovv -int. 



wil 



h a. t 



III 



»le 



sa 01 







iii 



a ei 



nti 



niporar 



yachting oj 



several v.. 



lis 



ago 1 



1 the 



Sptl , 



-,,v- rather 



gleefully. 



th. 



it 1 ' 



ah 



.... 





which he had U 



eat 



plena 









clined publii 



ihing my 1 



■Ii. 











would not p 



i-int all 1 se 



id. 



ibd : 



y 1 







beoli-M - r 



. 



... 



• .lee 



... 



pli 





es, it would give 

 . , of me. 

 1 nilly dis- 



icr-ol.a.lit.V -into 

 ul State. ie-- .I'd 



devoted to sport 

 .d athletic .:.-e--- 

 intercourse with na- 



.' I at Mi. 

 .: did not 

 My colors were noverbauled down, but 

 weresmiply aown elsewhere and any lime Med same Qffpon- 



r„t Vii.l th 11 -mv a a -phsiied N :iehtsmau. de-.res to "nave 



-mother .a." upon yachts ,„■ vaehting ha ivlt find me ready for 

 ^rfrav'persoualities barred I pi'Bfei those tace I 



1st be thinking of bl- 

 ow me to say that although I havi 

 boyhood, I neversoldbiitoneinn 

 . ; ■■! Bine-lev. Benedict and A 

 nit dog I sold to my esteemed frii 



journal I advertised 

 lths ago. and paid all demands 

 occupied, as receipts testify. 

 , well known as prize winners 

 la les it is not usual. I be- 

 -.-- low tricks of this kind, at 

 nor to call friends. Mr. ITiven 

 iiB connection 



a red -..idGurth, 

 luT, to Mr. M 



I. ester Wallaek. 

 .„ good bye" to New 

 1 "have" given away in my life, 'more dogs IBau I have 

 ...... I la--, never kept i kennel for pro lit I wish I had 



and never in my life took a sttidfee. although repeatedly 

 ■tuned to make mv kennel useful in this way. 1 might 

 at now, as it seems to be quite the thing, in all circles. 

 ■Oa -l.-iijav mv 1 e-irle.iee again, unexpectedly, 1 



1 ::„■>■ to ft.- . She de r. named above, and accepted 



1 's olTcr for tliein in response to a paid advertisement, 

 .f them he had originally owned. Now, sir, is this asuffi- 

 answer to a ~ ii.gi a ia,-... nation, made in a very vulgar 



Ag 



ain M 



.Niven states that he has alwav 



's understood that 





og-'si, 

 d]Sf|U 



alifieil 



s "chpped - 

 Eorit W 



it was "fab in 



g, v and exhibitors 



were 



all, if that is s 



a. then all the bull- 



eri-i 





1 whi 



,e English t 



,aa 1 | - 1 he 



i.eiich shows over 



oe ■ 





■ 1 i , 







alined. Their long 



.ail- 





—generally eve 



1 shaved off — from 



he 1 



isi-jr: ■: 



nil nil 



i :.a le edges 



1 , 1 i ;ell- f a [-- . 



ad a lot more than 



that 



too. a 



111 lb 



ir --wliiskc 



rs" and the u 



-idei-paite of their 



gibs 



are ''( 



li] 



'' likewise. 



M^ny of Hie: 



c dogs are owned 







Alb u 



n's most famous and res 



looted men among 



a- 11! 



rv and 



nobil 



iky. In no 







(nor 



has J. 



S. Mi 



•en) of one 



of these "clippi 



d" or "faked" dogs 



.! 1.1 



e brec 



Is ref 



erred to be 



ug "disiiuahUe 



1" for this pi epara- 





But. 



I, fo 





b gala:--.'.- 1, 



t and never will, 





mgh it 







custom. In a 



-.quale and explicit 





mi- th 



1 peas 



m was g-iv. 





stterwby thec.au- 





ppelld 



aa--e:s i 



f the little 



terriers were " 



eliiiped" at the. late 





York 



show 



One won 



Id have reason 



lhly concluded the 



-.-q.l 



itiafio 



s. Ai 



Id be satisf 



ictory to any g 

 m me about "i 



entleman. Anil so 



nkit i 



a. kin a" is unneoes- 



•i-iii 





truly 



beloved H 



iven, after M 

 ue in last week 

 artled me eve 



•. Mason's fearful 

 's paper. That was 

 1, that mv nerves 



liaa,. 









mi the severit 

 terrible. Eigu 



y of the shock. It 



res are figures, and 



Eaet 









nd pitiless. Thev don't lie. The 











cleanly and v 



rell. In attending 











jTOUsrlv impre 



ased with the sol- 



. I 



imrioa 



h at° L t 



^r'i;,', \ 



lift my hat, I 

 rave, so powe 



can but gaze with 

 •fully builded and 



cemented by thf 



Sir, I am nov 



criticisms were i 



ested individual: 



! foi 



e firmly convinced than ever that my 

 and just and true, because some inter- 

 t in the shows and the judgiug-ring, cry 

 a.o i!i, -m. The brilliant French author, 

 udity." Indeed it i 



who ha 





■ of Ju 



ylei 



vised therein that many .]udgi 

 the various breeds of dogs, a 

 is capable of doing justice t 

 six or seven. Whv. then, doe 

 all the shows held by the W"< 

 protend to auv extraordinary 

 which I wrote? Did I intarfen 

 because I told the truth and s 

 tread upon the toes of 

 I tried Co gel men who 



to disbelieve all I llO Plbblsll t! 



the "grand qiialit. 

 i-i.-. 1 ha- improvement was e- 

 ticallv invited to "judge here 

 hank you, 1 believi 

 Fo>t!".ST ami Sthi-am. my int 

 act as a judge at. '. show, for I 

 to give offense, to any exhibit 

 officiate without 



ruck a blow f 

 ■Boss"? It- 

 love dogs i 



Ston.-heii 



plished i 

 lies! to each and all o 

 knew "too much" and 

 I opine not. They toe 

 motives. Is it not pns 

 tho same of a ,m.e, 

 motive but a patrloti 



■ 



po-.-ib 



)alzicl," Id 



athei 



is keenly .-ai a - 

 "Prejudice is the 

 •Boss" would not 



I tl, lb;" Did 1 



e -llbject upon 



Oi Che W. EC. 



al-oate.-s; Did I 



1 regret it. 



I show them. 



■ papers about 



all sides. When 

 iw. and other- ac- 

 s. did "Boss" sug- 

 l.-io-,-, that they 

 ail future hows;'' 

 lv from honorable 

 . to helievt; 



who ha: 



ting 



and 



his -mile. I 



S ill soaet-d U ,-!■ 

 .- as o I had done 

 g what any Irutll- 

 i.at is, finding fault 

 iie-u sleepy owners 



Whv should Mr. 



e was wronged be- 



I told the 



•ard of a »nanie] 



his fierv si fbeforohe tried to unhorse me Whai hesays 



does not harm mi l ! onl reooBs on him. Bnt I wilt ohar- 



piK.se he was under the influence "f abnormal bzi ite- 



..a-ion. 

 or even ola di -ordered live.,- when le -luted to- |.-., 1 

 sake, and so I will not indulge in le 



Mr. Kirk does not pretend tod v " : ' i '''' *»&& 



about the merits oi ti .'",'."' '■. 1,e .. t 



August lo Mi. Ma.-on paints a PBtUW oi C . I- o f: .n his 

 e.q.a-ilvas a judge and of hi- knowledge li dorawWahJB 

 indeed 'di-agrecbic to contemplate. Now whUo 1 can 

 indorse ev.-rv word of Mr. Mason about Mr. Kir!:., u.-.a 



lac and his conseqo- -ul in,a)aeliiv to |l 

 und while. I believe 11 my dun , .0- a lev, randownei ol 

 ,, any attempt on the part of one bo del,. a 

 a ver U g . - in tlwtfpff, 1 do not tteBU 



