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og as it wa9 before the last two shots. The other scores 

 I ?ere as follows, each shooting at 20 birds; Thomas Todd, 

 i" 3; Henry Engle, 15; B. F. Kenly, 13; H. Gunther, H; T. 

 I'ijrisp, 15. Considerable money changed hands on the 

 ij ' esult, as the contestants were closely ma'ched. The 

 'hooting attracted a good attendance of sporting men. 

 i Che badge was awarded on this occasion for the first 



nWe. 



% Nevada.— There was some excellent shooting done No- 

 vember 5th between the Shooting Club team, composed of 

 ,' diamond, Gibson and Daly, and Gill, Cocking and Howard, 

 !'■ or $150 aside, at twenty birds, twenty-one yards rise, club 

 :ules to govern. Col. F. F. Osbiston acted as referee and 

 larry Stephens and Ernest Harris as judged. The scores 

 vere as folio ws:— 



| VIBGINIA SHOOTING CLUB TEAM. 



1 Name. Score. Total. 



T)aly 1 1111112111111111111 20 



Diamond. ...1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 q 1 1 17 



k Gibson 1111111110111111011 17 



Total 51 



VIRGINIA TEAM. 



Name. Score. Total. 



Gill 1 1111111111111111110 19 



Howard 1 1110011111110111111 17 



Cocking 1 1111110011111110110 16 



Total 52 



The club has decided to have a match at California quail 

 netead of pigeons before the next breeding season, the 

 >bject being to stock the country with the escaping birds. 



Game in Sonoma and Adjoining Counties.— The 

 Russian River Flag says : "For the benefit of our readers 

 ibroad, from whom we occasionally receive inquiries as to 

 lie amount and kind of game in tliis region, we here state 

 bat there are found in this portion of the State, in more or 

 /ess abundance, deer, bear, panthers, wildcats, foxes, 

 •abbits, hares, quail, grouse, and ducks of all varieties. 

 )f i'm -bearing animals, there are beavers, pine martins, 

 ninke, coons and gray squirrels. Salmon, salmon trout 

 ind mountain trout are abundant in our rivers and small 

 itieams at the proper season. Sylvester Scott, who Jives 

 ibcut twenty-five miles from Healdsburg, toward the coast, 

 •; unts bears principally, and has killed about twenty-three 

 i : n the past two years. He has also killed many deer. 

 But game is shy, and getting scarce in this county, because 

 )f the encroachment of settlements and being now so much 

 mnted. 



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THE "FOXIPATENT" GUN. 



i Sditor of 1 Forest and Stream :— 



* Observing by the advertisement which appeared in your 

 Columns some time since, that "The American Arms Com 

 ijjany were finally prepared to offer to the public the "Fox 

 , ?un," I have watched with some little interest to see what 

 eception it met with from our sportsmen, among whom 

 ve number so many careful and scientific experiments. 

 jidad a new gun appeared in England, we should have seen, 

 i; ere this, some dozen or more communications in the lead- 

 ing sporting journals, commendatory or otherwise, as the 

 Vuugments of the writers might dictate. But here is a gun 

 littering essentially from anything offered before — a really 

 jood one, too— deserving the attention of all sportsmen, 

 "und to my buiprise, except a few casual notices in your 

 paper and some or your contemporaries, we have scarcely 

 iiiy discussion of its merits or faults. Doubtless, like 

 ; most things, it has both, and surely there can be no subject 

 more legitimate for the columns of any paper devoteu to 

 field sports, and none more likely to interest its readers, 

 [ban the well considered opinions of intelligent and dis- 

 interested sportsmen, on the qualities desirable and other- 

 wise, of any new gun. Possioly most are deterred from 

 any public expression of opinion by the spectre of suspi- 

 cion which associates everything like commendation with 

 a "share in the venture," and too often with good grounds. 

 Now, as I have no pecuniary interest of any kind, name or 

 pature in the "Fox Gun," I wish to record my judgment in 

 its favor, and advise all my brother sportsmen who intend 

 purchasing, to give it at least a thorough examination. 

 They will find a simple and strong action, fitting equal to 

 the best, every part being nicely let in, an elegant appear- 

 ance, and last but not least in these impecunious times, a 

 very low price. The shooting qualities of those I have 

 tried were first-class. Several of my friends— pretty con- 

 stant and hard shooters — have had them in rough use now 

 tor some time, and like them exceedingly, finding they 

 stand the wear and tear well. I believe in encouraging 

 home productions when they deserve it. Our Schaeier's 

 and Muliin's, our Parker's and Abbey's, turn out guns not 

 a whit behind the best foreign make, and I feel very safe 

 in the prediction that the "Fox Gun," when as well known 

 as it deserves, will be in the first rank of American arms. 

 If one does not fancy the action, that is merely a matter of 

 taste. I can only say that, after using one two days in the 

 held, I noticed no perceptible difference between its mani- 

 pulation and that of my old favorite top levers. It is now 

 before the public, and presumably, if it has weak points or 

 serious faults in construction, its proprietor will feel under 

 obligations to those sharp eyed-critics who shall point 

 them out. For myself, failing to find any such objections, 

 I cordially commend it. I am naturally conservative, and 

 Whether justly or not, have the reputation of being the 

 last^ man in Massachusetts to abandon muzzle-loaders. I 

 don t fancy new-fangled notions, but honestly do like the 

 tfox Gun." Under Grip. 



Curious Fatality.— J. E. Jones, of this city, while 

 Quck shootibg on the Calumet river on Saturday, was 

 arowned. The recoil of his gun capsized him out of his 

 ooat, when his dog got entangled with him and kept him 

 under water, drowning him before he could be extricated. 



He 



a married man. — 



^e was twenty seven years of age and 

 Chicago Fi&d. 



Hunting in the magnetewan 

 county. 



Goldens Bridge, N. Y., Nov. 8th, 1876. 

 editor Forest and Stream:— 



We have returned from the Magnetewan not very rejoicing. The 

 weather was dreadful. When we got to Prates Hotel, Lake Koseeau, 

 *e lound that it had rained there for three weeks already. Tne roads 



ere something awful, I have roughed it a good deal fivs yeftrg ago ia 



California and Mexico, but such traveling I have never seen yet and hope 

 never to Bee again. The corduroy roada were covered with mud, Bome- 

 timeB eight inches deep, and to go from Captain Burke's to the Magnete- 

 wan, a distance of 1? miles, it took us from 7 a. m. to 4. p. m., nine 

 hours. In August and September, when everything is dry.it must be 

 quite nice, but I have eeen much prettier places ont West, places by far 

 better adapted for hunting. Since last year a good many settlers have 

 moved into that section around Magnetewan and Lake Shersheep and 

 that has driven the deer away. We killed two deer and one wolf, besides 

 a good many partridges. Our guide, George Ross, whom, by the way, I 

 recommend to every one, he being the very best guide I have yi t met in 

 my hunting travels, told us that the only good place near our camp was 

 the eighteen miles post between Magnetewan and Lake Nipissing. 

 That was, on account of the terrible roads, too far for us to go, so we 

 concluded to leave. 



The nearest place for moose and caribou np there Is, as George Boss 

 and Seymour Commanda, a half-breed guide, told me, about forty or 

 fifty miles northeast of the Magnetewan, the moose having been driven 

 away by settlers from Lake Nipiseing. On our return, as well as our 

 start, we stopped several days with Pratt, and he is the jolliest fellow I 

 have ever found this side of the Atlantic. We tad the 5th of October 

 four inches of snow, and everything in and around camp was frozen. 

 The wolf, an old she wolf, I killed one morning at 9 a. m., about 100 

 paces from our camp on the road to Magnetewan, finding her tramping 

 along very quietly. We returned tired out and satsified that we would 

 never settle up there. H. Struve. 



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Lou's Litter. — We are indebted to our friend Mr. 

 Evers, of the Turf, Field and Farm, for the kindly notice 

 in last week's issue of our valued contemporary of Lou's 

 litter of dog puppies. The casual reader, however, would 

 infer therefrom — through an error on the part of the com- 

 positor probably — that the entire litter had been sold to Mr. 

 Harry Babcock of San Francisco, whereas it should have 

 read that Monarch, the sire of the puppies, had been sold 

 to Mr. Babcock. This valuable litter has been widely dis- 

 tributed, one dog going to the Squire, one to Mr. A. 8. 

 Phillips of Trenton, N. J., one to Mr. F. Rockafellcr of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, one to Mr. II. N. Munn, and one re- 

 mains the property of Mr. Tileston, the breeder. 



at Carmarthen, '76; 2d at Oswestry, 75; 2d at Birming- 

 ham, '75; 2d at Danelly, '75; 2d at Newport, '76. We 

 shall shortly publish a portrait and pedigree of Sensation. 

 He will be used for stud purposes and will remain in New 

 York for two or three weeks before being sent to the ken- 

 nels at Springfield. Information regarding his fee, etc., 

 can be had at this office. 



— Mr. W. E. Hudson, of North Manchester, Conn., 



writes us that his imported red Irish bitch Stella visited 



Plunkett on the 9th inst. Dr. Goldsmith says Stella is a 



ve r y fine slut. Mr. Wadsworth, of Benington, Vt., who 



has kept Plunket, says Stella is the finest slut Plunket has 



ever served. 



« .»**. — -*-. 



Kennel Produce. — Mr. Wm. Jarvis, of Claremont, N. 

 H., informs us that his imported red Irish setter bitch 

 Kathleen has seven splendid, all red, whelps by the cele- 

 brated field and Bench Show prize winner dog Plunket, 

 imported by Dr. Goldsmith. 



«-••<► < 



DOG TRAITS. 



Perce, P. Q., Canada, October 23d. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



An intimate friend of mine, who resided a few years in 

 the old aristocratic city of Bath, (England,) had quite a 

 variety of dogs, his wife being a great dog-fancier. They 

 lived in very good style, keeping their carriage, livery, 

 servants, etc., and among Mrs. F.'s pets were a fine New- 

 foundland sailor, and a spotted coach- dog — Carlo. The 

 latter was very sagacious, and a most valuable animal, 

 never leaving the yard when the horses were in a strange 

 stable; and woe to the man who attempted to approach 

 them, or meddle with the harness, etc., in the absence of 

 the coachman. 



On one occasion Mr. and Mrs. T. left home for a summer 

 excursion, making Cheltenham the first halting place. 

 They put up at the Plough, one of the most celebrated 

 hotels in England, remaining a few days to enjoy the beau- 

 ties of the Spa. 



The day after their arrival, a ferocious bull dog attacked 



™ NORAH. 



* 



WEgive~an illustration this week of Mr. Andrew F. 

 Copeland's imported Gordon setter bitch Norah, 

 drawn by Mr. Alexander Pope, Jr., of Boston. Norah's 

 reputation as one of the finest specimens of the Gordon 

 breed ever imported extends throughout the United States. 

 She was sired by Rev. T. Pearce's champion Kent, out of 

 champion Duchess, by Sir Robert Carnac's Ned, out of 

 Mr. Brailsford's Stella, by Lord Chesterfield's Regent, the 

 last named a pure black and tan Gordon setter brought di- 

 rect from Scotland from the kennels of the Duke of Gordon, 

 who founded the breed. Norah has probably won more 

 prizes at bench shows than any dog in this country. Her 

 English winnings include "first" at Chester (twice) Birk- 

 enhead, Hanley and Drayton, together with the champion 

 cup at Birmingham in 1870; "second" at Birkenhead in 

 three successive years, Altringham, Bury, Glasgow, and 

 Manchester; highly commended at Liverpool, Glasgow 

 and Landback. Norah took first prize at the great Chica- 

 go show, scoring 97 points, the highest in the show. She 

 is also the dam of many noted winners across the water. 

 — -#.•+. 



A Magnificent Dog.— We have just had the pleasure 

 of inspecting a magnificent pointer dog, shipped to Dr. W. 

 S. Webb, for the Westminster Breeding Kennel by G. De- 

 Forest Grant, of this city. The dog arrived on Saturday 

 last per steamer Anglia of the Anchor Line, from London. 

 Sensation, as the impartation is called, is a lemon and white 

 pointer weighing about 60 pounds, bred by J. D. Hum- 

 phries, Esq., out of his Nell by Mr. Lloyd Price's champ- 

 ion Jim. Jim was by Mr. Whitehouse's champion Bench 

 Show and Field Trial winner Hamlet, out of Mr. Price's 

 Judy. This stock is the most celebrated in England, and 

 the Westminister Kennel is fortunate in having procured, 

 although at a heavy expense, such a splendid specimen. 

 We unhesitatingly pronounce Sensation to be the finest 

 pointer imported to this country, at least that we have 

 seen, and we imagine that our verdict will be indorsed by 

 the judges at next year's bench shows. His pruse winners 

 are as follows ; 1st at Shifaal, '75; let at Swansea, '75 * 1st 



poor Carlo and nearly killed him. The coachman dressed 

 the dog's wounds, and did all he could to alleviate the 

 poor brutes sufferings. The third day after the mishap 

 Carlo was missing, and could nowhere be found; a re- 

 ward was offered for his recovery; that failing, the conclu- 

 sion was that he had concealed himself in some secluded 

 jplace to die in peace— no uncommon occurrence with his 

 species. Several days elapsed without tidings of Carlo, 

 when, to the great astonishment of his master and mistress, 

 he returned accompanied by his friend Sailor, whom he 

 had brought from Bath to avenge his wrongs. The two 

 sallied forth, found the bulldog and nearly killed him. 

 The latter was owned by the butcher, who supplied the 

 Plough with meat, hence the whole affair being satisfac- 

 torily explained. 



The two celebrated Spa's are about forty miles apart, 

 consequently Carlo can have lost no time on the road. 

 How did he obtain food during his journey? How did he 

 induce Sailor to accompany him, he who never traveled 

 any distance. This to me is the wonderful part of . the 

 story. Dogs must evidently have a language of their own. 



Carlo lived to a great age, and when too old to accom- 

 pany ibis master and mistress in their daily drives, he 

 would follow James, the coachman, when he saw him, 

 whip in hand, take his place under the carriage, follow a 

 short distance, give a bark and return home. When the 

 carriage returned to the front door, Carlo never failed to 

 meet it, barked and yelped a welcome, saw the horses safe 

 to the stable, then betook himself to his kennel in the 

 kitchen yard, where his mistress kept him as her watch- 

 dog, and to insure his being well fed. 



Now ye readers of Forest and Stream, mark the sa- 

 gacity of this poor brute: When the horses were at home 

 they did not need his watchfulness. But the moment they 

 went abroad he slept with, and never lost sight of them 

 during their absence. 



Carlo's mistress had three beautiful Blenheim spaniels 

 —regular ladies pets— her constant companions in her 

 walks and drives. But on Sunday, strange to say, they 

 never offered to accompany her. When the carriage came 

 to take her to church the dogs laid under the sofa, and 

 could not be induced to go to the door. I have often tried 

 to coax them, but in vain. 



Mrs. T. always spent some part of the summer at the sea- 

 Side, and on one occasion having selected Bramsgate, the 

 late Duchess of Kent, and her daughter, the present Queen 

 of England, were among the visitors, consequently they 

 often met on the gands, when the beautiful gpatriel§ wet© 

 g©n®faBy ootieed tad ear-essed by the young *" 



