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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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MR. EARLE'S NATIVE SETTER SMUT. 



ly he can do the clerical work as v;ell as an oclogenariau. 

 His vote oiilj' counts one. 



Your correspondents should remember .tliat boys are the 

 stuff that men arc made of. Two-thirds of the dogs in the 

 country are owned or controlicd by boys. Tijo standard "will 

 surely 'be a lizzie if they Irecp putting obstacles in the way 

 and throw cold water on the subject. JIow are we io have a 

 just, sound standard unless breeders and otlirrs interosied are 

 put in comnnniication and a club formed. Schemers, propa- 

 gandists and intriguers, etc., cainiot convrol it. Tiie linijority 

 rules in this country if it don't in Mcliii>an. Stoiiehenge 

 T^'as considered a fair standard, liut what one of onr old and 

 e.vperienced breeders ever bred a dog that would scale 75 

 points according to it ? 



There is too much said about old and exjierieiiced Ijrs-eder.^ : 

 what have thev bred in all these yenrs? certainly nolliiiig h, 

 astonish the cocker world. In five year?, wiHi the luiowiease 

 they have gained and the e.vperience tliey have had, they 

 should be able to breed a blue dog. I tor one slionld like to 

 see this thing settled. I ovrn a lew dogs and should have 

 sent some to'Pittsburgb, but I dislike to be beat by a water 

 spaniel or setter. 



I think my dogs have as good pedigi-ee as any in the 

 country, but I do not call them perfect and want them set up 

 as a criterion. Whatever the majority says shall be the stand- 

 ard will suit. Yours fraternally, J. Otis Fellows. 



MK. CAUSE'S KEKKBL. 



"Wilmington, Del., Dec. 80. 



Ei^itor F<n-e\t cfuiJ Stimm: 



At your request I histcn to reply to your communication 

 a'iking for tidl parti. iiUis about my 1-fnncl. Jly present 

 kennel is not veiy c vi( 1 i diead 



of anything I ever i.v i > i"hs 



of some of my dog 5— n . l.i — 



that you may form some i.i,_a .J. ."., .^ . .-> |i„ luics do 

 n"t d'o them justice. 



At the brad of my kennel stands Warwick, whelped April, 

 1S77. He is by Leicester out of Petrel ; color, lemon and 

 while ticked. 



Among the bitches comes, in my ludgment fiist Ollie r 

 btti I SI tti to Champion Gladstone, and m inaikins; almost a 

 conntnp ii t of him The above brace I consider second to 

 non( foi tifld woil 



(hinipi II I 111. Fly led Irish setter whelped August 

 18 1 bv th I npnn Fufusout ol Fiicnd She is a thoroughly 

 biol n ut-ld 1 vid i clipper, with as much stjle as anj 

 Fn b 1 d )., I ( ^ 1 I 



il live I have two dog puppies, viz 

 i 1 li (lsp,itfnibLi ]S,0 b> Chrmpiui 

 111 II B5tb IK ncli m (ol - i 

 K 111 Hing ma r vf^edin^l) Innd 



itpoits il in'theu brtukci JIi I T 

 IK doiDg Um woik Thcoe two v\ith 



Til adbtii n t I t 

 Kddarc aid Bhz 

 Elcho out of Ch u i i 

 either 'iire or d iin ii 

 some dogs 1 h ivi 

 Mm m that tbL\ i 

 Fire riv ur f< 1 aln 



Pit I e send mr i utlir 

 IS an excecdingh hue "\ )i 

 Higgins for importing hi 

 handled him He was I > 

 leader. 



pictUK of D\sl Ml., "^lonalfb 



il. 



for 



It is with pleasure tba'. we piililisb the above letter from 

 such a dog-lover as Mr. Gause, and we congratulate him upon 



having in such fin-:- n-;.i,,:. V . ; iijii,. splendid dogs. 



Of the pbotograriii- /- well tftken, 



and Messrs. Scbrcib.r :V : v , > '' -^^■;i'":i!.\ .Jpservc credit 

 for this " Study from Nature." Tiie one of Fire-Fly is but 

 passable : red dogs never appear to advantage when repre- 

 sented by photography. That of Warwick is not good, nor 

 does the picture do him justice in any way. Sir. Gause has 

 rightly placed this perfect animal at the head of the list ; he 

 is a craud dog, and. we hear, a wonderfully good one on 

 snipe. His wnik in tlie heat wilb St. Elmo at the late field 

 trialt; showed the perfection of training, and although it ■ 

 decided that he was beaten, he did not commit a fault. 



It 19 FuED 4x0.— Tnere has recently been published in the 

 columns of a contemporary a very faithful reproduction of 

 the setter dog Fred 4th, figured by Mr. Laverack in his excel- 

 lent work on the setter. The a«curacy of the reproduction will 

 be appreciated by every one who is familiar with Mr. Laver- 

 ack's work. Our contemporary has, however, got the wrong 

 name appended to the portrait, so that it pm-ports to be the 



picture of a dog now owned in this country. This is more 

 surprising as it might have been supposed that any one 

 familiar with the literature of the setter would at once recog- 

 nize the likeness of Fred 4th, as we did when the picture was 

 proffered to us for publication. 



SMUT AMD NAT. 



THROUGH the kindness of the owners of this brace of 

 merry little setters wa are enabled to give to our readers 

 in this issue two very creditable portraits of Mistress Smut and 

 Master Nat. These dogs are typical of an old breed of native 

 setters tliat has been very carefully preserved many years in 

 RiioQo Island, the "SamScranton "blood being predominant, 

 and as will be seen, the subjoined pedigrees go back "pretty 

 well for natives." To our mind the old maxim, "Hand- 

 some is tiial handsome docs," is one that practical sportsmen 

 should cling to most closely. Here are a brace of dogs that 

 had to face many of the best craciis oi imported blood that 

 ever turned up in one iield m this country. They were not 

 placed, to be sure, but it is acknowledged by miinterested 

 spectatois who saw tbe trials that they should have been. 

 Fortunately for xhem their owners were game, and before 

 they were allowed to retire into winter quarters, the fairest 

 kind of a cballenge was offered to the owners of tbe dogs 

 tb,.t h.ii! been acdcdited with beating tliem, and the chal- 

 k)j_. w .>- 1 ot uiipted 



Till- lings vp'-eseut the best type of our native 

 slock, and the pedigrees here given are correct, although 

 they belong to America, and this is more than can 

 be said of many of those sent over with somewhat recent im- 

 portations. Of course, it is well known that there are dozens 

 of breeders in England who are honorable gentlemen, and 

 who would think it a crime to even dream of "cooking" a 

 pedigree but it is not dl of our countrymen wlio deal only 

 at fountain head rii i the „o betweens for the most part are 

 but isoriylot md tin umI n Innately often leads to placing 

 theblanif on lb «i n, i iilm is. 



The native oc! hi li i ii run down entirely too much of 

 late and there has not been enough backbone in our native 

 bieedei=i The invasion of toreigners had a weakening effect 

 on lb J L tin bite 1 foi proht as it became a fashion in dog 

 fl u 111 ( 11 n 1 turn, else for certain decades to become 

 lutielv Lii-i I "w belt known that, to om- knowl- 



edge tliPii have bK i]jst is Lood strains of pointers bred iu 

 this eoi nti\ bin ^ e i j^ is c m be now found in England, 

 aid these Ameiicm strun were kept pure for years with 

 ludicious intei breeding and m consequence such dogs as 

 Colonel ^^ illiam Dc Pej ster and Mr. Herman Bancroft (and 

 adozbumoiei we elaresaj.) used to breed were healthy, 

 plucky, most beautiful to look upon, untiring and a pleasure 

 to shoot over. 



But to return to our canines. Smut is owned Ijy Mr. New- 

 ton Earl e, of Providence, R. I., and is a very pretty little 

 setter Viitch, her color being pure black. Slie is five years 

 old, and has had a vast ciuantity of game killed over her in 

 her time. She weighs but 37i pounds when in condition, 

 but tbe following measurements will show that she is finely 

 proportioned : 



Length of head, 9j inches; spread of ear, 18 inches; from 

 end of nose to end of tail, 51 inches : gtfth of chest, 22J 

 inches; length of tail, 12x inches; from eye to end of nose, 

 4 inches ; height of shoulder, 20i inches. 



The little bitch has been very favorably mentioned on the 

 bench, and year before last with Grousedaie ■n-i:i!i second in 

 the braces at Robin's Island. She is untiring in the field, has 

 a wonderfully keen nose, backed with a brain which tells her 

 howto use it. Her size en.ibles ker to slip through the briars, 

 which cannot but severely punish larger dosjs ; and considering 

 that she has been made an indoor pet for the last year, her per- 

 formance in such good company is highly creditable to Iter 

 owner and her trainer. 



Nat is the property of Mr. Horace T. Bloodgood, of 

 Providence, R. I., to our knowledge an accomplished sports- 

 man and excellent shot. Nat is a black and white little set- 

 ter dog of 3} years, and when in condition weighs 35 

 pounds. He differs but little in size from Smut, as the ap- 

 pended measurements will show : Helglit of shoulder, 19^ 

 inches : length of head. 10 inches ; spread of ears, 17i inches; 

 from end of nose to end of tail, 49 inches; girth of chest, 22^ 

 inches; length of tail, 12 inches ; from eye to end of nosp, 4 

 inches. It will thus be seen that the brace is very evenly 

 matched. Nat like Smut is an excellent field dog, is pos- 

 sessed of tlie best of noses, and for such a small animal has 

 great speed .and endurance. Ho is wonderfully well trained, 

 ami shows that not only his trainer but those who have sub- 

 sequently handled him must be thorough ssjiortsmen. We 

 cannot do better than refer those interested in his perform- 

 ance te turn to our account of bis heat with Chainpiem Glad- ' 

 ston<3. 



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