FOREST AND STREAM, 
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Dogs at Auction. —One of the most important and 
successful sales of dogs at auction ever held in this city 
was that of a draft from the kennels of Messrs. Lincoln 
& Hellyar, of Warren, Mass., offered by Messrs. C. W. 
out and now have him on chain. Do you want him ? or 
what disposition shall I make of him ? T, G. T. 
Reply.— Do we want him? Nary red. Some of out 
friends may speak for him, however, and glad to get him 
too,—E d.] 
FROM ANOTHER SPORTSMAN’S WIFE. 
Barker & Son, on the 17th inst. The prices realized were 
far beyond those usual at forced sales, which may be ac¬ 
counted for from the fact that the animals offered were 
Well bred and as represented in the catalogue. A large 
number of well-known breeders were present, and the 
bidding, in most instances, quite spirited. The red Irish 
setter Arlington, the first on the list, was not offered on 
accoimt of his condition. The red Irish setter bitch Flora 
brought her full value, if not more, in spite of her prize 
winnings. The two pointers by Snapshot sold at less than 
their value, if it was only for their breeding, old Snap¬ 
shot being dead, and but comparatively few of his pro¬ 
geny being in existence, The dog puppy was a remark¬ 
ably handsome little fellow, giving promise of resembling 
liis sire. Frank H. was a cheap dog at $98, liis field qual¬ 
ities and breeding being considered. Seven of the red 
Irish setters and two of the pointers were not offered. 
After the sale of Mr. Lincoln & Hellyar’s stock, a draft 
of red Irish setters from the Harrison kennels (Mr, C. W. 
Bassford's) of White Plains was offered : but bidders were 
diffident, and few of them were sold. A miscellaneous col¬ 
lection of mongrels was also offered, with which the sale 
.concluded. The dogs sold, with the prices and pur¬ 
chasers, will be found in the following list :— 
THE PROPERTY OP MESSRS. LINCOLN & HELLYAR. 
Flora—lied Irish setter, imported, Mr, Eastman. $ 
Uvpsy—Black and white pointer, two years, by Cai out of 
Psyche, Mr, Doerr.. 
Rpse—Lemon and white pointer, one year, by Snapshot out 
ot Gypsy, Mr. Livingston..... 
Frank II— Orange and white setter four years, Imported, Mr. 
'Williams.-.... 
fllen—Lemon and white pointer, three and-a-half mouths, by 
Snapshot ont of Gypsy, Mr. Hall.. 
Czar—Blank and white pointer, brother to above, Mr. Cooper.. 
Sef ton—Black and white pointer, brother to ubove, Mr. Covert 
lbiisy—Liver and white pointer, six months-, by KakoII out of 
Daisy, Mr. Foster.. 
Red Irish setter dog puppy, 8 months, by Dash out of Flora, 
Mr.Jaokson... ....... 
A litter brother to the above, Mr. Walker.. 
A litter sister to the above, Mr. Boger. 
lted Irish setter bitch puppy, three months, by Chance II out 
of Phantom, Mr. Mott,... . . . 
THE PROPERTY OP THE HARRISON KENNEL. 
Carnation—Red Irish setter, three years, by Dash out of G ypsy. 
withdrawn . .. .... —.. 
Dog puppy (red Irish) by Rory O’Moore out of Gypsy....- 
Bi tch puppy (red Irish) by Rory O'Moorc out of Gypsy, Mr. 
McLaughlin .. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Grace—Cocker Spaniel bitch, McKoon breed, Mr. Asten. 31 
Carlo—Black and white watch dog, Mr. Collin?. 4 
Fanny—A poodle. 5 
Faddy—A Scotch terrier. 8 
Crib—Bull terrier . 8 
Dash—Red Irish setter, two years.. 35 
Measurements of Celebrated Irish Settees.— Our 
English contemporary, The Country, gives the following 
measurements of some of the most celebrated Irish set¬ 
ters in that country, all being well known prize w i n n ers 
and the property of Mr. T. Hilliard. These measurements 
are useful as giving other breeders an opportunity to com¬ 
pare them with the measurements of their own dogs : 
Palmerston: Age, 11 years; weight, 651b. ; height at 
shoulder, 23Ain. ; length from nose to set on of tail, 
44in. ; length Of tail, lain.; girth of chest, 30. ; girth of 
loin. 24 in. : girth of head, 16in. ; girth of forearm, 9J in. ; 
length of bead from occiput to tip of nose, 10±in. ; girth 
of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, lOin.— 
Count: Age, 3 years 9 months; weight 541b. ; height at 
shoulder, 23in. ; length from nose to set on of tail, 37Ain. ; 
length of tail, I3in. ; girth of chest, 28lin. ; girth of loin, 
23in. ; girth of bead, 15iin.; girth of forearm, lOin. ; 
length of bead from occiput to tip of nose, 94in. ; girth 
of muzzle midway between eyes and tip of nose, 8Jin. 
— Tilly: Age, 4^ years ; weight, 451b. ; height at shoulder, 
22in.; length from nose to set on of tail, 37in. ; length of 
tail, 14in, ; girth of chest, 27in. ; girth of loin, 20tin. ; 
girth of head, 141m. ; girth of fore-arm, 8}in. ; length of 
head from occiput to tip of nose, Ojin. ; girth of muzzle 
midway between eyes and tip of nose, 8jin. 
Suggested Treatment of Hydrophobia.— A writer in 
the Lancet (Dr. Lownds), says : “As all treatment of the 
established disease seems useless, I would suggest that 
some such plan as the following affords at least a possi¬ 
bility of mitigating the sufferings of the patient, and 
perhaps give time for the disease to run its course. The 
suggestion is that enemas of water at 98 deg. should be 
administered each half hour, alternating, if necessary, 
with Liebig’s raw soup, with wine, to keep up the 
strength. The suggestion is founded on the well-known 
fact that the water of the blood in hydrophobia is dimin¬ 
ished some 20 per 1000 compared to the average of health, 
and the object being to supply this deficiency, and .also 
strength, through the medium of the bowels, to enable 
the patient to bear up long enough for the disease to run 
its course, and thus assist the remedial powers of nature 
in effecting a spontaneous cure. We would suggest that 
the plan should be tried on rabid dogs ; any one unfortu¬ 
nate enough to have a dog seized with this malady would 
be doing good to his fellow men, and likewise to the 
whole canine race, by having this or other suggestions 
from a like authoritative source put in practice, instead 
of, as is too common, having the animal destroyed before 
it has been ever made sure that rabies is the disease affect¬ 
ing the animal.’’ _ 
Fox Hunting in North Carolina.— Gaston, Sept. 
21st.—The present week- we have had splendid sport. 
Had a great race after the kenneled fox; several packs in 
the chase; caught him, and then caught my old female 
red, and run to earth a third, which we did not secure. 
Caught yesterday my old male, put him to earth, dug him 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
Having just read “Zena’s” letter. 1 feel like rising to 
give mv experience as a sportsman's wife. I think the 
duty of a good wife is to enter into a husband’s joys and 
sorrows, and to sympathize with and aid him in all his 
pursuits as far as possible. I have been married nearly 
nine years, arid flatter myself that my, not worse, but 
smaller half—for I am no feather-weight—still enjoys my 
society as well as of yore, which is more than a good 
many married women' of myyears, or even a less num¬ 
ber of, can say. My husband is passionately fond of 
hunting, and knows no greater pleasure than to don 
about four vests, numberless coats and his seven-league 
rubber-hoots, take the worst-looking hat he can find— 
which would scare anything but a duck to death—shoulder 
his trusty 11 Parker” and start for the bay shore, when the 
equinoctial is blowing the ducks down from the north in 
screaming, quacking flocks, and the cold rain drives 
slanting into his face. There he will stay from early 
dawn until ‘‘pitch dark” at night, and come home tired, 
hungry, cold and wet, but happy as a long and laden 
with game, and the legal cobwebs all blown from his 
brain, and ready for a fresh hold on business on the mor¬ 
row. In the face of all this, how could I chide him for 
indulging in what he enjoys so thoroughly? He has had 
quite cold water enough all day without my throwing 
auv more at him. 
fint it is not all rainy day hunting. In the autumn, 
when the acorns are dropping and the scarlet and yellow 
maple leaves are floating through the air and falling in a 
gorgeous shower, we take a horse and buggy and drive 
tip the river about four miles. Hitching our fiery livery 
steed to a tree, we start into the woods for partridges— 
“ big Injun ” ahead, squaw following after—and occa¬ 
sionally, with “ hist!” our sportsman steps cautiously 
forward, when, “whirr’’goes a plump, brown beauty 
into the au', only to be arrested in liis headlong flight by 
a well-directed load of “ No. 6,” which brings him to the 
ground with a thud. Thus we pass that glorious Indian 
summer afternoon until the length enin g shadows warn 
us to return. 
We drive home in the twilight with more or less game, 
as the case may be, but always with wood mementoes 
enough—such as ferns, mosses and lovely leaves—to 
brighten our home and give us a breath of forest life for 
months to come. 
Many times have we gone a mile or two through the 
woods to the boat-landing, and. rowing out into the wild 
rice when the weather was fair, hunted for ducks, rail 
and whatever game there was, and it always does me so 
much good that I would rather go out for half a day’s 
sport in that way than to attend all the white-kicl parties 
I could he invited to in a year. 
Too many ladies think they cannot enjoy what their 
husbands do. Neither could theyif their husbands spent 
their time loafing on the street comers or playing bil¬ 
liards or cards in some miserable saloon ; but there is no 
man so churlish as to deny his wife the pleasure that he 
himself enjoys, provided it he legitimate fun. On the 
contrary, if he he an average man he will feel flattered 
that his wife chooses what pleases him ; and they will be 
brought into closer unity and sympathy with each other, 
and thus realize the true happiness of wedded life. 
A taste for sporting, like a taste for oysters, may have 
to be cultivated in some, but it was born in me; and by 
sporting, 1 don’t mean to say that a lady must always 
shoulder a gun when she goes out, hut it is well to know 
how. I hope to enjoy yet many years of solid fun, and 
we don't intend to grow old as long as our hearts are 
young and the eye tine. 
Although I have been hunting a great many times, it 
lias always been in the capacity of a spectator," until the 
last time we went. D. said : “This time you must shoot 
something.” I thought the gun too heavy, but concluded 
to try. A few minutes after, D. shot a teal and wounded 
a mud-hen sitting close to it. “Here, shoot that bird,” 
and he put the gun into my hands, with carefully worded 
directions as to holding, aiming, &c. I took good aim 
and fired. Whether that bird was hit or not, one thing 
is certain, it was never seen or heard from again ; and out 
of consideration for my feelings we will suppose that I 
killed it, hut it must ever remain an open question. 
The next attempt was at a vail sitting perched upon a 
stump. It looked at me as if to say : “ Don’t shut your 
eyes when you fire.” So I didn’t, but fired boldly, and, 
much to my surprise, knocked poor little rail off the 
fence. So far, good. The next time I hit something, 
but with this trifling difference, that the object struck 
was at the wrong end of the gun. Two rail, sitting in 
loving proximity, challenged me to a trial of skill. I 
calmly announced that I would proceed to bag flienr ; hut 
rny well-laid plans did “gang aglee.” In endeavoring to 
“ draw a bead” on those provoking little things, which 
wouldn’t sit still long; enough for me to cover them with 
the gun, I forgot the importance of holding the gun firmly 
to my shoulder ; and when I pulled the trigger the gun 
kicked, and the stock made intimate acquaintance with 
one of my front teeth, very much to the detriment of the 
latter, and, I am afraid, in the interests of the dentist, as 
I am not the possessor of that perishable quality—beauty. 
I didn’t worry about that, and only when I found that 
my birds were safe and sound did I mourn, not so much 
for the lost fragments of my teeth as that 1 had been bo 
careless, and thus met with a double loss. 
I have never been subjected to all of “ Zena’s ” tribula¬ 
tions on account of dogs. We never owned but one, and 
that was one too many—at least of that kind, I like dogs 
where they belong, but would as soon have them to eat 
at my table as to sleep under my bed. 
Our dog was a setter, and purchased when only a puppy 
of a few weeks. He hadn’t cut his wisdom teeth, anil 
couldn’t distinguish between a table-cloth and a bone ; 
consequently our dry goods suffered. But “the most 
unkindest cut of all ” was a caper which he cut. We kept 
chickens in those days, under the insane delusion that it 
was profitable. I needn’t say that the theory was ex¬ 
ploded long ago. “ Bright,” our dog, during his master's 
absence, broke from his kennel. It was in winter, and a 
very deep snow lay upon the ground. He entered the 
hen-yard and with one blow of his powerful paw broke 
the glass in the window of the poultry-house. Of course 
tlie chickens availed themselves of the chance for liberty, 
and when out in the deep snow they were helpless. How 
long it took that dreadful dog to demolish those poor 
bipeds, history saith not; but when 1 went out there I 
found nineteen of our finest chickens stretched stiff and 
cold upon the snow. 
If any man had wanted to earn fifty cents by swearing 
for me he could have had the contract off-hand ; but in 
the absence of a candidate, I talked in small capitals on 
the back of that dog with a stick, soundly and roundly. 
Soon after he was presented to a lumberman and taken 
up into the woods, where he came to an untimely end by 
eating meat “fixed” for wolves. Thus ended our trials 
with dogs, and, like “ Mrs. Josiali Allen,” I have never 
“ encouraged ” the purchase of another. 
I enjoy reading Forest and Stream more than I can 
tell; and if we cannot all, like the Princess Louise, pull 
in big salmon, we can enjoy reading about others who 
have that privilege. Tell “Zena” to take courage, and 
inasmuch as her husband is good and kind during the 
“ close season,” and only guilty of going “ gunning” the 
rest of the year,” to let him get what fun he can. Life is 
too short and full of sorrow for us to deprive any one of 
one innocent amusement. 
We will be thankful that our husbands are sportsmen 
and not “sports ;" and as long as they keep aloof from all 
lowering and disreputable diversions, let ns not be¬ 
grudge them the satisfaction of smashing enough glass 
halls to build a second crystal palace if they want to, for 
after all it is only another way of playing marbles. All 
honor to true sportsmen. May their numbers never grow 
less! Diana, 
Will “Zena" send ns her address? 
—Mr. Chester 0. Cutter, of Boston, claims the name 
“Jock” for his liver and white ticked pointer dog, puppy 
ex Gillespie’s Fan by Rex, bom July 13tli, 1879. 
St. Louis Doa Sho w.—Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Will you please announce in your news columns that 
Major J. M. Taylor, of Lexington, Kentucky, has been 
appointed to judge fox terriers, hounds (all classes), 
Spaniels, and the non-sporting division of dogs. 
Chas. Lincoln. 
Correction. — In a communication of last week announ¬ 
cing a litter of red Irish setter puppies, by Messrs. Lin¬ 
coln and Hellyar, Arlington, out of Doe, there were 
two mistakes interfering with the sense of the facts. The 
bitches name is Doe, not Zoe; and Messrs. Lincoln and 
Hellyar's name should be familiar enough with our 
readers. ^ 
—Mr. Henry W. Livingston’s lemon-and-white pointer 
hitch Rose (Snapshot-Gypsy), has been bred to Sir. Or- 
gill’s lemeu and-white champion Rush (Flake-Lilly). 
m\d §m\. 
GAME IN SEASON FOR OCTOBER. 
Moose* Alee Americana■ 
Caribou, Jtangtfer caribou. 
Elk or wapiti, Ccrvus canadensis. 
Red or Va. deer. 0. vlrginianus. 
Squirrels, red, black and gray. 
Hares, brown and gray. 
Reed or rice bird, Dolichunijx or- 
lisivnraus. 
Wild turkey,McRapris (Mopoiv , 
Pinnated grouse or prairie 
chickens, Vuphlonia cupldo. 
Ruffed grouse or pheasant., Bu- 
nasn umbcUits. 
Quail or partridge, Ol'ly.v virglni- 
antis. 
t®“This table does not apply to all the States. It is meant to 
represent the game which is generally in season at this time. State 
regulations may prohibit the killing of some species of game here 
mentioned. 
The Grouse Shooting Season. —We have received 
from our correspondent, Mr. S. H. Tim-ill, the following 
very favorable account of the present p i n n ated grouse 
Bhooting at the West. Mr, Turrill writes :— 
Chicago, Sept. 13 th .—I left here August 15th, via the 
Chicago and North Western Railway to Missouri Junction 
in western lflwa, then in anothwest direction, over a branch 
road of the above company to Wisner in Nebraska, for a 
chicken shoot with my son. It is one of the most beau¬ 
tiful prairie countries I have ever seen, well adapted to 
Btock and grain raising. It is quite undulating, with as 
fine valleys and natural blue joint grass as can he 
seen anywhere in this western section, and pinnated 
grouse are plenty. We bagged 750 of them in about 
three weeks, with the assistance of two friends, 1. 
McMillian, of Wisner, who was out with us for two 
days, and C. P. Mathewson, of Norfolk, who also was 
out two days. The largest bag was made in the vicinity 
of Norfolk, 122 by two guns ; and this would have been 
much larger if it had not been for an rmforseen acci¬ 
dent. But however the above bag is sufficient for any two 
Bportsmen in one day. We did not leave the hotel until 
eight o’clock in the morning. It was the most pleasant 
and satisfactory chicken hunt I ever had. The country 
is not fenced at all, and yon can take a team and (hive 
anywhere you please, and let your dogs range the prairies 
anil stubble fields to your heart’s content. When they 
find and point the birds, get- out, do your shooting, atul 
pick them up and put them in the wagon and drive on 
for more. I killed quite a number while driving along 
the road. The only unpleasant thing was that the dis¬ 
tance being so far from home and weather so warm, I 
could not send the game to my friends instead of giving 
it to strangers in the country where it was killed. Ikept 
tlie hotels where I stopped well supplied and feasted for 
three weeks. Wish you and other eastern friends could 
have been along to enjoy the sport. 
The pinnated grouse shooting season is now fairly in 
its prime. The success which our correspondent met 
in Nebraska is in keeping with the reports from other 
chicken centers of the West. The season has been favor¬ 
able for a large supply of birds this fall, and the favorite 
grounds, whither scores of gunners repair, are yielding 
