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Gtjido's Lilly.— The illustration on our first page, for 

 which great credit is due to Messrs. Jacob Glahn and Sand- 

 ford and Lohman, of West Meriden, Conn., engravers, is 

 a capital likeness of this well-known prize winner. Lilly 

 was born in May 1873, and is lemon and white. She is out of 

 Arthur Gibson's Lilly and by Lancaster's Sam— all lemon 

 and white, and superb field dogs. Gibson's Lilly is out of 

 Fanny, liver and white, said by her owner, Atkinson, of 

 Memphis, to have been imported at Baltimore, Md. Lilly's 

 sire is Morgan, from kennel of Col. James Gordon, of 

 Pontotoc, Miss. Sam's mother was imported by Wm, T. 

 ^hite, and his sire imported by Col. G. W. Morgan, of 

 Botetourt County, Virginia. This strain is noted for rare 

 (intelligence and exquisite rose. May, Lilly's sister, won 

 rfirst at Memphis, 1874; her younger brother Noname won 

 iflrst at Memphis, 1875, and Lilly won first at Mineola, 1875, 

 ;She was broken by T. M. Horsfall, and was his prime 



favorite. 



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—Mr. Theo. Morford, of Newton, N. J., has sold his 

 •fine orange and white setter, Duke, bred by himself, by 

 Joe out of Nellie, to a gentleman of this city, for the 

 handsome price of $300. Duke is now two years old, and 

 was worked on the prairies during the past season. 

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THE BIRMINGHAM DOG SHOW. 



WE noticed in our last issue that the entries to the 

 above show numbered one thousand. We have 

 now the list of awards, and the comments upon the same 

 by English papers, although we notice quite a variety of 

 opinions upon the same subject- The following is from 

 the Birmingham Herald:— 



The pointers, though numerous, were not up to the Bir- 

 mingham standard. The champion prize for large sized 

 dogs, and Messrs. Elkington's cup for the best pointer in 

 all classes, was won by Mr. Wippell's Wagg. The prizes 

 for large sized dogs were taken by Mr. Mason's Marquis 

 md Mr. Salter's Duke. Mr. Whitehouse and his lemon 

 ind white blood was still to the fore, although in the me- 

 iium size champion dog class his Joke had to "cave in" to 

 MU*. Brierley's Sultan (Whitehouse blood), looking as sleek 

 ts a seal. Mr. Prior's Neil took the prize for bitches. In 

 he small sized classes Pax and Cedric, Lady Pearl and 

 Rosalie reigned supreme, with one exception — the cham- 

 )ion elass for bitches, where the prize was taken by Mr. 

 liver's Luna, also bred by Mr. Whitehouse. In the me- 

 liura class for dogs Mr. Norrish was first with Don the 2d, 

 ucl Mr. Parr second with Don . 



The English setters are admitted on all hands to be the 

 feme de la creme of the show this year. The foremost of 

 ur setter breeders were well represented. Mr. Laverack, 

 le veteran breeder of this century, was conspicuous by 

 is absence, but representatives, and worthy ones, too, from 

 le kennels of Messrs. Jones, Macdona, Price, Llewellin, 

 ower, &c.,well supplied this deficiency, all of whom have 

 le best Laverack blood in their respective strains. In the 

 (tampion dog class Mr, Jones had an easy victory with 

 ap over Quince II. , Rap looking as well as ever — full of 

 uslity, good loins, stern and coat, and as sound feet as a 

 i)g of his age could have. In the champion bitch class 

 vi\ Jones' Flash had to give in to Mr. Llewellin's Petrel, 

 tis latter being without any pedigree given in the cata- 

 igue — why wj3 don't know. It is not fair to the other ex- 

 bitors who comply with the Birmingham Show rules, by 

 viag the pedigree as requested in the schedules, that their 

 oney should be given in prizes to competitors who ex- 

 bit dogs in violation of the rules of the show by with- 

 )kliug the pedigrees of the dogs entered. In the open 

 ass for dogs the first prize goes to a pure Laverack dog 

 imed Dash, by Pride of the Border, out of Dicken's 

 she; the second merit to Mr. G. de Landre Macdona's 

 and young dog, Ranger II. , son of his champion field 

 inner, Ranger, from Wonder, No. 1,567 in the Kennel 

 no Stud Book, and winner of the stakes at the Devon 

 id Cornwall Field Trials, 1873. This young dog won the 

 cond prize in the open class at the Crystal Palace Show 

 3t Summer; he was the best sterned dog in the show, 

 d is faultless in his head, having a long, lean, intelligent 

 ce, full of expression. He is very much improved in 

 ndition, and is a young dog that must "come with a 

 sh" to the front as soon as he is full grown, his pedigree 

 both sides being long and illustrious, and his appear- 

 ce all but perfect. Mr. Bower's Bandit deserves special 

 &ntion, as he is somewhat of a celebrity, being by Mr. 

 >n's Jock (own brother to Mr. F. R. Hemming's Rock), 

 a Mr. Bishop's held winner Judith. The English setter 



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iches were a grand class; in fact, the best in the show; 

 % Jones' Rival being one of the handsomest we have 

 M for a long time, though she succumbed to Phantom, 

 f > winner of the first prize, and Dorothe Second, belong- 

 /l to Miss H. Alderson. 



ifThe black and tan setters were a very good class. In 

 1 s champion class we regret we cannot endorse the judge's 

 huon, as Lang, which was passed over, was immeasura- 

 '' i superior to Mr. Meyrick's Rock. Though showing a 

 w gray hairs in his muzzle, yet Lang's grand head and 

 ■•■ rfect limbs, and well ribbed flanks, are as perfect as of 

 ,; re. In the bitch class Regalia, the property of Mrs. 

 ood, won the champion prize, and looked in brilliant 

 ,^001 of coat. In the open classes a new exhibitor, Mr. 

 L. Parsons, of Taunton, showed in Grouse and Floss— 

 rich, took the second prize for dogs and the first for 

 :ches— a very beautiful brace, in splendid coat and con- 

 gou, evidently evincing the patient care and attention 



f lue Irish setters were as fine a lot as have yet been ex- 

 , jbited at Birmingham, and Mr. Sandell gains first in dogs 

 / ■■■ill Palmersion, the great winner at Irish shows; and Mr. 

 '; ircell-Llewellin second, with Kite. The prizes for 

 s went to Mr. McHeffies' Mina and Mr. Kennedy's 



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/i A correspondent of BelVs Life says of Dash:— 



//He is a blue Belton, of the size and somewhat resem- 



bling old Dash, but he has not such a good head as his an- 

 cestor, being a bit broad across the forehead, and the shape 

 has not altogether the remarkable Laverack carving, as it 

 were, about it, which marks this breed of setters. The 

 success of a Pride of the Border will be read with interest 

 by our American cousins, for Mr. Laverack sold this dog 

 and Fairy together, and an American has recently told me 

 Pride of the Border is the best dog that has been imported. 

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The Montkeal Hunt Season op 1875.— The "Montreal 

 Hunt" held their first autumn meet at the "Kennels," 10th 

 September and the last on the 13th November, at the vil- 

 lage of St. Henri, nearly a fortnight sooner than ordinary 

 seasons. The meets were well attended, the average 

 number of horsemen present being about fifteen or twenty. 



The pack consists of twenty-six couples, about twenty 

 being the average hunted each day — Tuesdays and Satur- 

 days. The covers usually drawn were situated within an area 

 of from 20 to 25 miles on either side of Montreal. 



It may fairly be assumed that the best horses in the 

 Dominion are hunted with the Montreal hounds, and that 

 in no portion of Her Majesty's Empire is to be found a 

 stiller country over which to ride than the Island of 

 Montreal — the usual height of the post and rail fences and 

 stone walls being 3£ to 6 feet. The best commentary 

 upon a sharp and severe run of over an hour or so, is that 

 of a field of thirty horses not more than three or four can 

 live the pace! 



THE MEMPHIS FIELD TRIALS. 



THE FIELD IS THE TOUCHSTONE. 



Memphis, December 6, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The report of the Memphis Field Trial as given in the Forest and 

 Stream, leans so strongly toward the defeated Bine Beltons and Field 

 Trial strain of setters, in spite of results already crystalized into history, 

 that this critique is to defend the home and winning dogs, for whom no 

 arm nor voice has been raited, and who are so freely pronounced 

 inferior by those who failed to run anything against them superior, of 

 which the plate, the purses, and the whole results wherever they were 

 entered, are silent and eloquent witnesses. I honor the liberality, 

 pluck, and chivalry of " Dogwhip," " Mohawk," Adams, and Taylor, 

 in coming so far among strangers whom they left enduring friends, and 

 am glad to know they came, and will come again not for gain, but for 

 glery and for the good cause. They may in 1876 and thereafter, be able-to 

 demonstrate what they so staunchly believe: that the imported strains 

 can surpass in the field our best natives; and when we see it we f ball be 

 heartily converted. But, this is not to detract from their merits— they 

 are beautiful and good— but when the golden apples of the Hesperides 

 shall germinate African crabs, or the virtuous loves of sentient Cau- 

 casians sball engender Siamese twins, then shall I believe a noble 

 race of pure native setters whose parents, grandparents, sons and 

 brothers, have already proven capital field dogs, able and willing to 

 beat the scions of imported stock before a cloud of witnesses, should be 

 rejected as inferior, and accomplished facts discarded for an unfulfilled 

 prediction of evil. In excess of enthusiasm, your own reporter has 

 canonized faults as virtues, for he says " Maude and Paris, both flush- 

 ing, were taken up. Romp and Rake-flush for Romp in corn, and 

 well done. " Had he but pointed, what eulogies and encomiums might 

 we not have been favored with ! In the genesis of this critique I wish to 

 clearly state I base it on figures and awards we have had, and which I 

 deem a bulwark of defence against imputations of unworthiness, shield- 

 ing the natives with the a3gis of protection from ingratitude, and let us 

 forgive them even for the capital crime of having beaten, both in the 

 brace and champion single stakes — in all they ran for— the sons and 

 daughters of the magnificent Leicester, of the queenly Dart, of 

 Llewellyn's Prince, of Jerome's imported Shot, and of the near blood of 

 the Marquis of Anglesea crossed on the Tilley Gordons. We adopt 

 " Mohawk's " declaration that the Tilley Gordons are more closely 

 allied to the imported than native strain, and this imported strain 

 being bred to the English Blue Beltons of the Marquis of Anglesea, 

 classifies Romp and Rake as nearer the imported than the native strain, 

 I am specially glad that in these genuine English Blue Beltons the 

 native brace, Tom and May, had adults (four years old) and broken, 

 and here worked by the acknowledged prince of trainers, Mr. Thomas 

 M. Horsfall, to contend with. Over the Field Trial entries it is con- 

 ceded the natives had an advantage in age, but this should have been 

 more than balanced by the claimed extreme superiority of blood, and 

 was certainly reinforced by the more careful breaking also of the royal 

 entries. If tiie royalists aforesaid must have equality at least, at all 

 points in order to compete at all with native setters, their superiority is 

 not evident as sunlight, but per contra, is so occult as to demand a 

 microscope. While we are sincerely glad the imported strains con- 

 tested in the Memphis Field Trials, giving the natives worthy foes and 

 beautiful prisoners after the test was over, we will have passed America's 

 second Centennial ere practical sportsmen will utterly discard winning 

 republicans, doing royal work under the poorest handling (as did Camp- 

 bell's Tom and May, Tom again when he won the American champion- 

 ship) for royal losers, doing less perfect work with far higher scores for 

 breaking. It will be after the asserted superiority of the Beltons and 

 the Blues shall have been clearly proven and their defeats covered 

 up with victories yet in the dim uncertain distance, ere our pure, fast, 

 staunch, and oft-tried winning natives can shake their gory locks at us 

 and mutely say, as we discard merit for fleecy beauty: "Ingratitude, 

 thou marble-hearted fiend, how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is!" 

 Gentlemen, when you shall have won the laurels, it will then be time 

 enough to wear them; do not anticipate and claim them in undue con- 

 fidence, for your pleasure and renown will be lessened when you shall 

 have reached the now unwon goal; and should you by any chance again 

 be beaten in 1876 as in 1875 and 1874, your Pharphar and Abana of Hope 

 will again be tinged with the Marah of an annual defeat. If those who 

 are more than satisfied with their own true Blues, and are more than dis- 

 satisfied with the native ready Reds, assert the Campbell entries were 

 flukes, we are quite sure those who have known them longest and 

 best, proclaim them all flukes of the same calibre, a whole race of 

 flukes without a known exception. I doubt not the defeated have 

 abundant plausible excuses, but the most numerous excuses are the 

 most barren substitutes for success. However, they may prove sorely 

 needed crumbs of comfort— manna steeped in honey. Had the case 

 have been altered, it might have altered the case. Let not the blue 

 bloods again say (for their own credit) their dogs had been run too 

 much, were exhausted, for the extreme limit of each race was two hours, 

 and allowing them to have run the full time of each race consecutively 

 (which they did not), they had to run but six hours in two days. If that 

 pumped them out I do not admire their system of water works. And 

 this, too, after several frosts. What will Summer prairie shooters think 

 of this, men who have hunted dogs under eighteen months old, the same 

 length of time in one day, without distress, and repeated it merrily on 

 the morrow? But one writer says it is the produce of imported dogs 

 that is destined to sweep the natives from the field. For us, "Sham- 

 rock," he is a Cassandran prophet, but all his demonstrations are as yet 

 castles in the air of the futuie; but let us see how this idea works retro- 

 spectively, for exactly such an animal ran in the late Field Trial at 

 Memphis, the Gordon bitch " Mab," aged and worked by her trainer, 

 the chiefest among ten thousand, Mr. T. M. Horsfall. I do not fear 

 contradiction from any witness or any reader of the record, when I say 

 her work was extremely poor, her chances the most favorable of the 



day, and her score the lowest of the entire meeting. One point, with 

 her tail awag all the time, and five flushes, made among hard lying 

 quail in sedge-grass, was the evidence she gave to support the authority 

 above, and prove her superiority over our best natives. The record 

 shows 53 out of 100 for her and her mate, and their most partial friends 

 knew that to be a most liberal score of their earnings. The statement 

 that Maude, Paris, and others of the Belton and Llewellyn strains were 

 put down at the worst time of day, and the natives when birds were 

 feeding and it was cooler, is a weak begging of the question, proven by 

 the fact r they were taken up, and again put down at [most favorable 

 times. Did I not feel assured this is an omission of the writer referred 

 to, I would not fail to say svppressio ven is cognate to suggestio falsi, 

 but he shall have tne benefit of the doubt. One commentator, whose 

 eyes can see but an imported mouse, although a home mountain were 

 between, endeavors to put Tom and May, the winners, to disadvantage, 

 by saying they had already had many thousand head of game killed to 

 them, showing they had been elegant workers and perfect successes. 

 That is what we want, and while their meritorious past is thus inad- 

 vertently admitted, he would have us adopt untried dogs for the 

 future. This argument is like "vaulting ambition which overleaps 

 itself and falls on the other side." Is proof of ability, will, and success, 

 a bar? If so, I call on Mr. Clickener and Mr. Williams, (of McLaren & 

 Williams, St. Louis,) to join me in drinking the health of the Campbeil 

 dogs, pronounced by them, disinterested witnesses, the best dogs of 

 the entire trial to draw blood over. Guido. 



FOOD FOR DOGS. 



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Editor Forest and Stream: — 



I was much amused at Mr. Fitchet's idea of the proper way of prepar- 

 ing food, and ere long will give you mine. All I could say in favor of 

 mine is, that I seldom have a case of sickness of any kind, and not a 

 single case of perceptible distemper within the last ten years, and during 

 that time I have at no time had less than ten to twelve dogs in my ken- 

 nel, and at present I number sixteen. E. A. 



By all means give us your mode of feeding dogs so as to 

 get rid of distemper. — Ed. 



Kennel Produce.— On the 16th inst. Mr. J. E. Fisher's red Irish 

 setter, Belle, dropped four strong pups to Hamilten Thompson's Duke. 

 The litter comprised two dogs and two gyps, all a rich blood red, and 

 doing well. 



MAGAZINES. 



St. Nicholas. The promise made by the editors of this 

 charming magazine that its December number should excel any of its 

 predecessors appears to have been faithfully fulfilled. A perfect ple- 

 thora of good things has been served up as a Thanksgiving dessert for 

 all the good little boys and girls (and aie there any who do not?) who 

 read St. Nicholas. Very appropriately, the portrait of the great story 

 teller, Hans Christian Anderson, adorns the frontispiece, surrounded 

 with illustrations from his own inimitable stories. Mr. Noah Brooks' 

 story, "The Boy Emigrants," is continued to the fourth chapter, the 

 only serial, by-the-bye, in the number. Nearly all of the articles are 

 illnstrated,and cne of them, "One Hundred Christmas Presents and How 

 to Make Them," is accompanied by no less than twenty illustrations and 

 diagrams. Mr. Trowbridge's "Bass Cove Sketches" are continued, the 

 present one being entitled "Off to the Island." Jack in the Pulpit con- 

 tinues his pleasant week day sermons, and the Riddle Box offers a hand- 

 some model yacht as a prize to the best guesser. 



The Popular Science Monthly for December contains the 

 usual number of valuable papers, contributed by some of the foremost 

 scientific writers of the day. Prof. W. S. Barnard contributes an inter- 

 esting illustrated article entitled "Opossums and Their young,'' which 

 treats in an elaborate manner of Didelphys 'Virginia. It is a little re- 

 markable that this our only marsupial is found neither in Europe, Asia, 

 or Africa. Mr. Herbert Spencer discourses of "Idol and Fetich Wor- 

 ship," and Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth gives close attention to a very 

 worthy subject— 'Strange Mental Faculties in Disease." The place of 

 honor is accorded to a valuable paper by Prof. Tyndall, entitled "Mar- 

 tineau and Materialism." We desire to congratulate Prof . Youmans, 

 editor of this magazine, upon his safe return from his European trip. 



Wide Aioake. The sixth number of this new publica* 

 tion, edited by Ella Cameau, and issued from the press of Messrs D, 

 Lathrop & Co., is before us. It is wonderful how the children of this 

 generation are catered for. Here is a rival to St Nicholas springing up 

 and already taking hold of the affections of the little ones. The present 

 issue is a perfect mine of treasures, comprising illustrated stories for 

 all ages. The favorite story of "Little Silver Hair and the Bears" is 

 done in rhyme, and birds, beasts and fishes all come in for notice. 

 "Kim's Last Whipping" points a moral, and "The Magic Carpet" is like 

 a glimpse of the "Arabian Nights." Wide Awake has been consolidated 

 with the California juvenile magazine known as Sunshine, and the com- 

 bination promises to work successfully. 



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 the recognized organ of the National General Ticket Agents' Associa- 

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WINNING YACHTS OF 1875. 



WE last week published a list of regattas and matches 

 in American waters for 1875. We now print a 

 list of winning yachts in our own as well as English waters. 

 We may make the same remark as we did last week, that 

 there are probably some omissions and inaccuracies, but 

 such are almost inseparable from a work of this kind. 

 The American list comprises oyer three hundred vessels 

 and the English but seventy-four, but in the latter case 

 ouly yachts of live tons and upward are noted, and if the 

 liet had been continued to the same limits as our own the 

 numbers would have been more equal. It must be borne 

 in mind that across the water a vast number of yachts are 



