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[Jci,T 8, 1880 



Which if looked down upon by the old hands may afford 

 the young ones, fresh from Bchool and college, a chance 

 to try their hands as trainers. 



Dog-breaking like everything else, must haw i I ■ 

 ning.'and why should not our young friends begin to teach 

 themselves and at the same time rear for their use a 

 Lovable field companion. In despite of the general opin- 

 ion I .bat spaniels are stubborn and hard to break — a no- 

 tion which our experience has taught us is most falla- 

 cious— we cannot think of any breed better adapted to in- 

 Struct the tyro than a close intimacy with one of these 

 jolly little dogs. A spaniel can be put to a variety of 

 uses that would utterly ruin a setter or a pointer j beside 

 this, it is a sad mistake for any man to make of either a 

 jack of -all-trades. What comparative harm will it be if 

 a .spaniels or two are rendered worthless by the misdi- 

 rcetod zealof the beginner. None, we fancy; while it 

 would be no joke to incapacitate for all future use a 

 well bred, keen-nosed pointer or setter. These views arc 

 the foundation on which we wish to write. 



It is during the long summer holiday, when the bay 

 snipe are flying, that we would open our retriever- school ; 

 nor is there any better place to have it held than by some 

 salt meadow pond, or on some inlet shoal or sand bar. 

 At the best, compared with field work, bay snipe shoot- 

 ing is but slow work, and at times it is oppressively 

 tedious. -The sport needs a fillip, and this perhaps can 

 be given by the introduction of a four-legged friend. 

 Whether the stools are set on the meadows contiguous to 

 New Hampshire's Rye Beach, or by the best stand on 

 Gull marsh, in Eastern Virginia, there will come days, 

 in spite of both winds and tides, when no flight will be 

 on. To those, therefore, who have followed this kind of 

 shooting, it is well known how monotonous it is to watch 

 for birds that never come. Far different from beating 

 out a country in which there is a scarcity of game, for 

 then one can walk away his troubles and have some 

 change of scene ; at all events there is something to oc- 

 cupy the mind. All holidays become a bore unless we 

 have mental occupation, and partly on this account we 

 suggest what old barmen would call "a four-legged inno- 

 vation." Whistle, then, to your spaniel the next time 

 you cross the bay ; his sizewill admit of bisfoi in " ■ 

 away in the boat, and his weight will not pull you back. 

 He will not be in your way, for he can be taught to 

 charge and stay quietly in the blind or end of your sink 

 box. Teach him to retrieve with a tender mouth, and 

 circle the stools ingoing out for the birds in order to 

 make him understand that you seriously object to lus 

 falling into the vulgar error of mistaking the decoys for 

 the dead. Point out to him that he has sufficient nose 

 to wind the hiding couple, and that it will save himself 

 the trouble of many a long swim by devoting Ins atten- 

 tion to the winged birds first. Exact obedience, and 

 make him stay at charge until ordered "to fetch." In- 

 struct him to drop to hand, no matter how far away, so 

 that his movements may not sheer off a flock which is 

 setting for the stools. Let him understand that he is to 

 come in at once when he hears the whistle, the note of 

 which, by the way, should be as far different as possible 

 ftorn "the calls" of the large army of the snipe family. 

 If he is thoroughly broken in this respect you will be 

 enabled at times to have him tole in a wide-flying flock, 

 as we have often seen the marble willet allured to the 

 gun in this way. In time his sharp eye will discern 

 the birds long before they appear to the human vision, 

 and he can with care bo taught to give a timely warn- 

 ing. To dive for a crippled teal is but his instinct, and 

 he can be worked to make the rail in the sedge take 

 to wing. He will help you to bag many a bird you would 

 otherwise have to go after in the boat, and probably then 

 fail to pick up. He will save you time when birds are 

 flying, and with him you will not be exposed to sight. 



There are a score of ways in which our friend, the 

 spaniel, can be made useful , and between tin' morning and 

 evening flights you can amuse yourself in teaching him 

 until he is perfect in "bis tricks and bis ways," as Jenny 

 June would say. Of course you must expect to be un- 

 mercifully chaffed at first for being so absurd as to break 

 into the old time custom of declining to be your own re- 

 triever, but before the day is put it is a hundred to one 

 that some bayman will call out to you to "bring that ere 

 dog over to help me find a burd." 



Mr. Godeffkot's Answer to Mb. Dalziel's Lettish. 

 New York.JiJi/ 1st. — Editor Forest ami Stream* — Mr. 

 Dalziel's letter in The Live Stuck J- urnql attd 

 Gazette, republished in pari, by your paper, I would answer 

 as follows : As to the protest in class 40, 1 think that Ilea riy 

 every one will agree with me that the whole matter was 

 a mistake, and was rectified in the best manner possible. 

 Sir. D. takes no notice of my protests in classes 16 and 

 33. but takes up the question of dew claws in the St. 

 Bernard. I do not think that five points in 100 is a high 

 value for the dew claws; at any Tate, my simile was 

 correct, for the value of "solid white in a bull terrier," 

 though a most necessary point, is the same, viz., five 

 points', Mr. D. refuses to submit to the "opinions" and 

 I'orotchetB" of "Stonehenge" and \ oroShaw, as expressed 

 in their books on the subject, and goes on to tell that 

 "old champion Tell, Prince Selm's Courage," and other 

 good dogs, were without dew claws. But in my opinion 

 that proves only that these dogs were not perfect. Dal- 



ns me that Darwin says th; 

 "accidental monstrosities," That may be, but it has 



nothing to do with the case, for in the St. Bernard the 

 dew claw is not, as in most other breeds (when present!, 

 an elementary toe, but is a regular fifth toe, and has the 

 advantage of giving them a firmer foothold in I 111 in 

 Any how, I believe Mr, Darwin a much better judge of 

 monkeys and tails than of dogs and dew claws. As to 

 the demanded apology for the insult of presuming to 

 doubt Mr. D.'s competency, if we doubt the correctness 

 of a judgment we are not going to quietly submit. We 

 express our doubts, and challenge the judge to prove 

 their correctness. "Stonehenge - ' is our standard here, 

 and we try and breed after it, and it was understood that 

 our dogs were to be judged according to "Stonehenge," 

 ■Ming to Dalzielor Darwin. As he takes up the 

 question of St. Bernards, whv does he not notice my 

 other two protests in classes 16 and Xi ? Is it because 

 he thinks I am right? Please read what the Loudon 

 Field says about the judging of class 16. I think it jus- 

 tifies my protest in that class pretty thoroughly, The 

 for Mr. "D.'s special comfort, let me ask this quest ion ; 

 \vhy did my black setter Satan receive V. H. C. on Tues- 

 day, when Chance was only C, and yet Chance received 

 the special prize for the best black setter ? In justice to 

 Mr. D., however, we must remember that he did not 

 judge the setters individually, but as he breaks a lance 

 for his brother judges, and demands an apology, I cite 

 i ho case. The only just ground for complaint is that 

 some one offered to bet the judges that his dog was the 

 best, and that they were wrong, but I am sure that: this 

 was the act of no true sportsman. 



__ A. E. GODIIFIROY. 



Accident to Pointer " Sport." — Atchison, Kansas, 

 June 20th.— The pride pointer in the West, " Sport," bj 

 Sensation, formerly from Bridgeport, Conn., owned by 

 Mr. ,1. II. Garside,"met with a sad mishap a few days ago, 

 by accidentally breaking his hind leg in some machinery 

 in an oil mill.* The dog, 1 am happy to say, is doing well 

 at present. J. A. 



Sale of Mr. Price's Pointers.— In accordance with 

 the determination of Mr. Price, the well known pointer 

 breeder, to exhibit as little as possible in the future, but 

 to breed largely, and to offer for sale by auction at Ald- 

 ridge's. London, England, each year at the commence- 

 ment of July, the dogs shot over in previous season by 

 himself and friends, a sale of pointers from the Hhiwlas 

 Kennels, Bala, North Wales, will be held at Aldridge's 

 on July 0th, when the following first-class draft from his 

 kennel will be disposed of : Mossy Face, liver and white 

 pointer bitch, whelped April, 1870, by Mr Price's cham- 

 pion Wagg, out of Mr. Moore's Moss. Tails, liver and 

 white dog, same litter as Mossy Face, by Wagg out of 

 Moss. Bastova, bred by Mr. Leaohc, born November, 187'J. 

 Peal V Bells, liver and white bitch, born January, .1878, 

 by Mr. S. Price's Bang, out of Mr. Leache's Bella' Merry 

 Bells, liver and white bitch, younger sister to Bow Bells, 

 and Yellow Drake, liver and white dog, whelped April, 

 187"), by Drake, out of Nimble Ninepence. 



Imported Laverack Aldershott, — Brooklyn, July 

 1st. — I received June 29th. by the steamer Roxburgh 

 Castle, the pure Laverack setter dog Aldershott. He 

 comes direct to me from the kennel of John Rumford 

 Robinson, Esq., of Sunderland. Aldershoft's color is 

 orange Belton, and he is about twenty-two months old. 

 His pedigree is as follows : Aldershott, by Emperor 

 Bred., 9,077, out of Blue Cora, il, 120; Emperor Fred, by 

 Baverack's Blue Prince, 4,250, out of his Daisy. 6,131 ; 

 Blue Cora, by Baverack's Blue Prince, out of Cora, ; 18 

 The numbers refer to the English Kennel Club Stud 

 Book, 



A Beautiful Photograph.— Mr, Charles H. Turner, 

 of the St. Louis Kennel Club, has kindly sent us a pho- 

 tograph of Mr. Tracy's oil painting of the pointer bitches 

 Keswick and Jessamine. It is an excellent copy of the 

 finest picture we have ever seen. Keswick is shown in 

 the foreground pointing, and Jessamine in the act of 

 hacking, while in the centre of the picture a sportsman 

 stands awaiting " the rise." Tins photograph, as well as 

 the one of the sister picture of Faust and Bow, can be 

 bad on application to Mr. J. M. Tracy. No. 1102 Olive 

 street, St. Louis, Mo. Price. 75 cents each. 



MR, Livingston's Kennels.— Mr. Henry W. Livings- 

 ton, of this city, has closed his kennels at Flushing, L I., 

 and transferred his stock to the kennels of tho Titus 

 Brothers, at Centerport, L. I. 



A New Remedy for Hydrophobia.— M. Lesserteur 

 has just given publicity to a plant which has a great 

 reputation as a cure for rabies in the kingdom of An nam. 

 This plant, of which the name is hoangnan, is a kind of 

 liana, closelr akin to the false augostura ; its effects are 

 similar to those of strychnine and brucine. M. Bottlev, 

 in speaking of this new remedy in the " ReoewB de Medii- 

 eiue Veterinaire," regrets that so few facts corrobora- 

 tive of its efficaciousness are given. — Live Stock Journal. 



Exercise for Dogs. — Exercise is most essential to the 

 well-being of a dog. To witness the way be Mljjoys B 

 good scamper would tell any one tins. Without exer- 

 cise the wheels of the poor animal's life seem to clog, bad 

 humors are not excreted, dyspepsia comes on, he gets mo- 

 rose, dull. and sometimes even irritable and unhappy, liver 

 troubles come on, then jaundice, and then death, A 

 dog ought to have at least two hours' daily romping in 

 the open ail - , — Live Stock Journal, 



KENNEL NOTES. 



SAVHS-Bijou -Mr, Geo. D. Waedougall, of New Brighton, 

 Btaten Island, hiiB sola back tbe cocker dog Urjou (1st Montreal, 

 1880), to Mr. JomcB Cunningham, of Montreal, the tie 

 owner. 



NAMES i'i.aiukti-7"!,')! Jl.-Mr. Geo. D. MacdougtUi 

 name OJ Vlni, LI. lor Ids cooker bitch (WW 111 whelp to B 



. lon-JT™ York, Jl/ .',.:. 



say that m.v Flirt was bred Juu I gatll. Lt was -Mr. Goi 



Flirt that whelped May stu. To pre\ 



tie Similarity of names, I shall call my bitcll Flirt n, in future. 

 GKO. D. MAUDOrCAnL. 



Wiiia as. Cleopatra—He. II. W. Lee's (Boston, Mas;.) mastltt 

 bitch Cleopalia whelped Juao -ith, twelve puppies— seven dogs 



ii.i ii' hitches. 



NAMES Cj.ai.mki).— iejffl— Mr. H. w". Livingston, of this city, 

 umc of Lola for his Llewellyn Better bltofo puppy, 

 whelped Jan, Kith, 1880, by Lehips (No. 150, A, K. S. B.l, out of 

 Starlight (No. 515, A IC. 8. n.j. 2;,,,, ,,,,, tf, it. Yy. Liv- 

 ingston claims the name of Beautiful May for bis setter hitch 

 puppy, by I.elaps out of Starlight. Mitlta Mr. It. W. Livingston 

 claims the name of Minta for his seller hitch puppy, by Lclftp' 

 out of Starlight. Lift'/ COBio— Mr. II. W. Livingston claims the 

 name of Lady Collie for his eolley bitch puppy, by '■'■ 

 out of Downey's Lassie. Cork—Mr. W. A. .lohnson, of Clinton, 

 N. C Claims I In: name of Cork for his red Irish setter puppy, 

 Whelped March 1.1th, lp'Si), l.y lierg out of Cora (lOluho-MelUP. 



sale.— AYIitV— liretiUinin. JIass., Jem 30Wi.— My advert iaeiiK-nt In 

 your paper has euahlcd me to sell my imported Gordon setter 

 bitch Nellie iTormerly T. T, Sawyer, Jr.'si, to Mr. C. F. Mann, or 

 Won --ester, Mass., she in whelp to Jerry. FltED. A. Ta it. 



^rcheru. 



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TOURNAMENT OF THE MICHIGAN STATE ARCH' 

 ERY ASSOCIATION. 



THE first grand annual meeting of the archers of the 

 State of Michigan was held under the auspices of 

 the association, upon the beautiful lawn of Recreation 

 Park, in the city of Detroit, on the 23d and 24th day of 

 June. The meeting was a success in every resnt 

 has done more for the promotion of aichery in the State 

 than even Us most zealous friends anticipated. 



The groundB chosen are peculiarly suited for such a 

 meeting, and the preparations were of the most careful 

 and comfortable character. The weather was beautiful, 

 only a little too bright and hot for comfort ; but all in all 

 as fine, as could have been expected. Thirteen ladies and 

 thirty-one gentlemen competed for the medals of cham- 

 pionship, and several visitors took part in the shooting 

 who did not complete for these emblems. Among these 

 visitors were Mr. Will H. Thompson, the present" cham- 

 pion archer of the United States. Mr. 0, S. Case, Mr. 0< 

 V. A. Hartley, of Toledo, Ohio, and several other mem- 

 bers of the Toledo Archers. The programme and prize- 

 list were so arranged as to give genera 1 satisfaction, and 

 the meeting went off without a jar or unpleasant inci- 

 dent. 



On the afternoon of the second day, the archers and 

 Bpectatora wene -called together in front of the grand 

 tent, and the President, Mr. W. T. Brown, of Hastings, re- 

 quested Mr. Will H. Thompson to present the champion 

 and championess medals to Dr. W, R, Dorrance and 

 Mrs. E. T. Church, who had made the highest score in 

 the contest for the championship on the preceding day. 



The presentation speeches were exceedingly happy and 

 appropriate.and were greeted with hearty applause." Mrs. 

 Church received the lady's medal with the same easy 

 grace which marked her shooting, and Dr. Dorrance re- 

 plied in a brief and very neat speech, in which he proved 

 himself as skillful and brilliant in talking as in drawing 

 the good yew-bow. The lady champion and Dr. Dor- 

 rance will each attend the National meeting, and will be 

 found in the front rank of contestants. The ladies gener- 

 ally shot better than the gentlemen, Mrs. Church. Mrs. 

 Caldwell, Mrs. Phillips and Miss Sill, being especially 

 fortunate in their scoring. The championess medal of 

 the United States was won at Chicago last year by Mrs. 

 Spalding Brown, with a score of 541, and it is very flatter- 

 ing evidence of improvement that Mrs. E. I. Church 

 should have taken this medal with a score only six points 

 less, when at the Chicago meeting she was only able to 

 score 310 points at the same round. While at Chicago, 

 she only obtained 101 points with forty-eight arrows at 

 forty vards, she here obtained 210 points at the forty 

 yards range. 



Mrs. Church shoots in perfect form, drawing her ar- 

 rows slowly to a point just below the chin, taking care- 

 ful aim over the point of the arrow at the point of aim, 

 and loosing smoothly. She is rapidly improving and 

 score of 600 at the Double Round may be expecl 

 her at Buffalo. The championess was' closely followed by 

 Mrs. Caldwell, of the Battle Creek archers, who scored 

 only seven points less upon the round (528), leading at 

 the end of the second range by three points, and w T as only 

 passed at the very close of tlie thirty yards range. Miss 

 Sill, of Detroit, made a fine score of 401) points, leading 

 the field at the thirty yards range with the good record 

 of 245 points. In the ladies' handicap of forty-eight ar- 

 rows at thirty yards she again led with 2G1 points. " Both 

 Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Phillips shot below their average 

 scores at practice, the latter having often SCOT 

 700 points at the Double Bound. The English 

 Round of forty-eight arrows at sixty yards and twenty- 

 four arrows at fifty yards was shot by the ladies on the 

 second day, and again Mrs. Church proved victorious, 

 finishing the round with the superb score of ninety-six 

 points with twenty-four arrows at fifty yards. Avery, 

 interesting finale to the sixty yards shooting occurred 

 between Mrs. Phillips and the" championess, the score 

 being announced as " a tie" when Mrs. Church still had 

 only to shoot. She scored a black with the 

 last shot, and the score stood eighty-nine toei 

 While the occasion seemed one of great pleasure to ail, 

 yet the ladies especially gave evidence of the rare ■•witch- 

 ery of archery," for they seemed to be •'merry as a mar- 

 riageable belle" during the entire meeting. A hard task, 

 indeed, was imposed upon Mr. Will ID Thompson by the 

 President when he required that gentleman to award tbe 

 prize offered by Messrs, T. B. Bayl & Co, ''to the most 

 graceful lady archer." The champion was equal to the 

 emergency, however, and his presentation speech wai 

 received with the liveliest applause, 1 1 

 "Daises and Gentlemen; — 



"Well knowing that no one with a home in your midst 

 would dare attempt the decision which 1 am asked tO 

 make, a visitor from A distant I Upon lo 



bear away with him the anathemas of all 

 archers, with only one-exception. 



"I might in a spirit of gallantly declare that all the 

 ladies are perfectly graceful, and, therefore, tied for first 



