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FOREST AND STREAM, 
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OLD CARLO. 
I T Lob l»eu well said, that he is ‘‘ a wise son who knows 
his own fatherand, if this adage holds good with 
lespeet to dogs, Carlo must have ranked with the Platos 
and Solomons of the canine race, for his father was a 
noble liver-and-white pointer that claimed the Isle of 
Great Britain as his birthplace. As to his mother, her 
origin is veiled in mystery , and, excepting a high de¬ 
gree of courage and a wonderful nose, he must have in¬ 
herited from her his traits both of body and mind, for, 
from the end of his muzzle to the tip of his tail, he was 
as black as the River Styx, and showed as much of what 
has been styled, with more force than elegance, pure 
cussedness in his composition, as has over been seen 
within the narrow compass of one dog skin. With re¬ 
gard to the prefix old—he did not merit this for the 
number of years that had passed over his head before he 
came into my hands. Indeed, he was scarcely eighteen 
months’ old, when, together with a good record for rats, 
a certain liking, more fond than wise, for raw eggs, and 
with nothing to recommend him but the virtues of his 
sire, he passed into my possession. Yet he had not been 
an inmate of our borne more than twenty-four hours, be¬ 
fore he was dubbed Old Carlo by every member of the 
household, including the servants. I suppose he must 
have merited the title in some such way as a small hoy’s 
teacher is always, no matter how young he may be, 
styled old Smith, or Brown, and the gentleman in black 
is universally known as the Old Boy ; that is, through 
the eternal fitness of things. However that may be, all 
1 can say is, that no one who ever formed his acquaint¬ 
ance ever thought of disputing his title. Carlo had his 
peculiarities ; which, indeed, is my excuse for writing 
this article. Some of these could be accounted for, while 
others must be relegated to that class of conundrums 
which “every fellow has to give up." Among the latter 
1 must mention a decided unwillingness to follow me 
when riding, if I went out through the big gate. He 
would follow me through it willingly enough when I 
was on foot; and never refused to follow me when rid¬ 
ing, if I sought any other means of exit. But, after me 
on horseback, through that gate he would not go ; and all 
means alike, forcible and persuasive, failed to overcome 
this dislike. 
As he never confided to me the Becret of this miscon¬ 
duct, and I could not trace it to anything that had ever 
happend while he belonged to me, I am forced to ascribe 
it to inheritance from his unknown mother, or class it 
among those things "that no fellow can be expected to 
A less objectionable peculiarity was his fondness for 
music. All dogs have a fondness for the sound of a horn ; 
and I have heard of some that recognized with delight 
tnc notes of the dinner-bell; but Carlo’s weakness was 
for vocal music, and that of the most decidedly operatic 
type “ Robert toi que faime ” and “ Hear me Norma” 
were his especial favorites; and whenever the soprano 
reached her highest note, Carlo would rise upon his 
haunches, and, turning his head to one side, give vent to 
the most ear-piercing howls. There were not wanting 
some musical amateurs to declare that Carlo howls were 
not altogether out of accord witli the music; but for 
this, occupying as I do the oflioe of veracious biographer, 
I cannot vouch. His performances, however, were a 
never failing source of delight to my younger brothers, 
who were in the habit of enticing Carlo into the parlor, 
hiding him under the piano, and then begging my sister 
to sing, always requesting Carlo’s favorite pieces, in 
which he never failed to join, greatly to then: delectation 
and that of certain guests of theirs of the small boy per¬ 
suasion. This was repeated from time to time, until my 
sister grew tired of having her powers subordinated to 
Carlo’s performances, and then all regular exhibitions 
ceased. Occasionally, however, on the advent of a sere¬ 
nade, Carlo would find an opportunity to indulge his 
tastes and perfect his musical education, and he would 
do so in a wav that filled the musicians with rage, but 
caused the hearts'of the aforesaid small boys to overflow 
with joy. Although Carlo never developed any intel¬ 
lectual traits that were of especial use in the field, where 
his own comfort was concerned, he was by no means 
dull In proof of this the following fact may be ad¬ 
duced ; After Carlo had been mine for some two years, 
I became the fortunate owner of two ready good dogs, 
but for the sake of old associations stifi retamed my old 
friend On cold mornings these dogs would invade the 
dining-room, and, unterrified by the servants, repose on 
the hearth rug. There they would remain until my 
father, who was always the first to come down m the 
morning, would come in and drive them out mto the cold 
again. This move was not played on Old Carlo many 
times, before he discovered a sound defence to it. He 
soon learned to distingush the approaching footsteps, and, 
while they were yet outside the door, he would bolt under 
Che sideboard, where he would remain until all was still, 
when he would quietly steal into a warm corner, where 
he was generally overlooked and allowed to remain. One 
other peculiarity, and one that was of itself almost enough 
to destroy his usefulness in the field, was an uncontrolla¬ 
ble desire to flush all birds that he or any other dog migh t 
point, ThiB he would do with a verve, which, although 
in the course of time 1 became accustomed to it, was ex¬ 
tremely disconcerting to novices, and frequently resulted 
fir missed birds and certain expressions of feeling more 
forcible than elegant on the part of those unfortunates 
who chanced to be shooting over him. This habit, al¬ 
though I tried every method, from the check-cord to the 
whip and the spiked collar, I faded ingloriously to con¬ 
quer He would point steadily enough until all the guns 
had taken their positions, when in he would go,-put up the 
birds, and, if a bird was at all awkward in getting away, 
it was ten to one that Carlo would catch it. Ab long as 
you held the cord he would stand as quiet as a lamb, and 
delude you into the beliof that the fault was cured ; but 
no sooner was the cord dropped, than he would be at his 
old tricks as bad as ever. Although, after frequent whip¬ 
pings, and an occasional peppering with small shot at 
long range, 1 at last prevailed upon him to lay aside his 
youthful habit of chasing, aB unbecoming to a dog of ex¬ 
perience ; the fault of flushing I could never cure; and 
to show how it was ingrained in his disposition, I will re¬ 
late the following incident: On one occasion, I had a 
large bevy of quail well dispersed ; Carlo pointed ; and, 
not having the fear of Mr. Bergh before my eyes, I de¬ 
liberately stood on him, and thus getting him to down 
charge, walked up to the bird and killed it. The dog re¬ 
trieved it as usual; and then resuming the hunt, soon 
found another bird. This he pointed; but not waiting 
for me to come up, flushed and chased to a considerable 
distance. Afterward he resumed his old habits, as much 
as to say, that he thus asserted his rightB, and would re¬ 
spect mine so long as his own were not interfered with. 
One may well conclude that this was the last time that I 
attempted to break him from flushing. Justice demands 
that, having dwelt so long on his bad qualities, I should 
say something of his virtues. This I may well do, as the 
record is a brief one. No day was too long for his un¬ 
tiring energy, and no cover too dense or tliomy for his 
invincible courage. Although months of the "puzzle- 
peg " failed to cure him of raking, he never failed to road 
and retrieve a wounded bird, no matter how slightly 
wing-tipped, But here the record must cease. Old Carlo 
has Tong been gathered to his fathers; and although his 
most partial friend dares not claim for him a seat in the 
canine Heaven, for which his taste for music so well 
fitted him, may it not be allowed one to hope, at least, 
that he has worked his way up to the higher rounds of 
purgatory, and has not for his sins been hopelessly con¬ 
signed to the inexorable vengeance of the gods below. 
Savannah, Tmn. "WILL. 
CANINE CHARACTERISTICS. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
From the close intimacy that has so long existed be¬ 
tween myself and Queen, our setter, I have had ample 
opportunity to study her characteristics. From a puppy 
she seemed to know* as well as the rest of us when the 
Sabbath came. My husband was in the habit of taking 
a stroll on this day, and always permitted her to accom¬ 
pany him. but never allowed her to follow him to his 
place of business. When he left the house on week-day 
mornings, she would not seem to notice it at all. But if 
he tried to leave her, or started off in the direction of his 
place of business without speaking to, or even looking at 
her, on the Sabbath, she would follow him, all the same, 
and could hardly be driven back. 
A neighbor of ours had also a young setter—Bounce 
by name—so like our Queen in general appearance, that, 
at a little distance, it was difficult to distinguish one from 
the other. These dogs were remarkably attached to each 
other: thev would gambol together like kittens for hours, 
and seeme'd to care no more for the society of other dogs 
than if they were of a different species. 
The first time my husband took Queen hunting, this 
gentleman and his dog accompanied them. My husband 
shot a prairie chicken (pinnated grouse). It was lying 
near him on the ground, and Queen was jealously guard¬ 
ing it, when Bounce came up to give it an examination. 
A fierce fight ensued, and after that these dogs would 
not have anything to do with each other, and seldom met 
without quarrelling. 
She seems to have a very jealous disposition, w e had 
owned her about three years, when our little Charles was 
bom. She seemed to consider him as infringing on her 
rights. If my husband held the baby on his knee it annoyed 
her greatly ; she often climbed up and forced herself be¬ 
tween them, and tried to push him off. She disliked the 
child very much, and when he was older she would not 
allow him to play with, or come near her, but would get 
up and run away, with an angry growl. 
She has a great antipathy for small black dogs ; she 
does not seem to dislike those of some other color half as 
much. 1 used sometimes to take her with me when I 
went out walking, and if a little black dog ran out to 
bark at us, in spite of all I could do to prevent her, she 
would gather it up, and shake it severely for its imperti¬ 
nence, while I would hasten on, for fear the owner might 
come out and demand an explanation. 
She always informs me when the master is coming 
home—and the information is quite often very oppor¬ 
tune. As soon as she sees him coming she runs quickly 
to me, and by many demonstrations of delight—such as 
wagging her tail briskly, and frisking about—seems to 
say : “ He’s coming ; I’m so glad ! ” Sometimes she is 
quite a distance from the house when she sees him ; but 
she never fails to run in and deliver the message. When 
she is in the house, and the doors and window's are closed 
so that site cannot see him coming, she knows his foot¬ 
step, and will not bark; but if a stranger approaches the 
gate at such a time, her noise is almost deafening. 
A relative with whom I resided some two years, while 
attending school, had a handsome, silky, black and white 
shepherd dog of unusual intelligence. This dog was al¬ 
ways very much affected by music—vocal especally. 
There were two or three Sabbath school songs that always 
set him howling. The one entitled “Nearer to Thee” 
affected him the most. No matter who sung it, he never 
failed to howl pathetically, from the commencement to 
the close. It amused the children greatly, who thought 
he was trying to sing. He often followed them to the 
singing school, and “brought down the house” by Com¬ 
ing out behind all the rest at the end of a tune. 
An acquaintance of mine has a dog, that will, if chas¬ 
tized ever so lightly, ran away from home, and be gone 
for days, and, sometimes, a week at a time, the family 
knowing nothing of hiB whereabouts ; he will then return 
in a very forlorn condition. Lena. 
Maternal Instinct.— Just how many thousands of 
birds and beasts find their way into the circle of news¬ 
paper fame in the course of a year it were a difficult task 
to compute. The latest candidate for such notoriety is 
the Brahma hen of Mr. M. E. Filliter, of Belleville, Ont. 
This plucky fowlbeing deterred from sitting, transferred 
her affections to four hound pups which had lately come 
into this world of strange happeniugs. The lien drove 
their mother away after a hard fight, and sheltered the 
dogs beneath her wings. Strange to say the unnatural 
affection of the hen was returned by the puppies, which 
seemed to prefer her society to that of their mother. Be¬ 
ing deprived of their natural nourishment one of the pups 
died, ami the others were returned to their parent, but the 
hen had to lie looked up in order to prevent her breaking 
in again on tbo interesting family circle. And a later 
number of the Belleville Intelligencer reports an escape 
for Biddy, another defeat of the mother hound, and an¬ 
other puppy killed by kindness. The hen went to the 
block. 
A Doo with a Scent for Money.— A Virginia paper 
tells this story of Mr. David S. Forney’s dog : “ Mr. For¬ 
ney took his dog into the house (this was not at home— 
therefore not a trick,) and gave us his pocket-book, with 
instructions to carry it a distance to the field, and place 
it somewhere on the fence, in a direction that the wind 
would blow from it to the house. We did so, and re¬ 
turned. Mr. Forney came out with hiB dog, sat down, 
and said nothing, nor did he speak to the dog. Presently 
the dog pricked up his ears, and commenced to sniff the 
air, started off in a direct line to where the pocket-book 
was, passed it a few feet, came back, reared upon the 
fence, got it, came to its master, and laid it in his hand. 
We took a number of hats.to the outer edge of the lot; 
these he brought in, selecting his master’s first.” 
Mohawk Valley Notes. — Amsterdam, N. Y. Oct. 
30th. —There has of late been a growing interest through 
this section in breeding a finer strain of dogs than has 
been shot over by our local sportsmen ; though several 
quite fine setters are owned here, not until lately has a 
true interest been taken in the pointer, of which, I pre¬ 
sume, as fine a specimen (Ferguson’s lemon and white 
bitch, pure blood,) as exists in the county, is owned here. 
She was lined yesterday by Mr. Lewis’s lemon and white 
dog, of Syracuse, and if success attends the effort, as fine 
a strain of pointers as the county ever saw may be ex¬ 
pected, and will be found in the Mohawk Valley. The 
weather is becoming gradually colder, and before many 
days our woodcock shooting will have an end. 
J. H. S. 
If our correspondent had given us the names of the dog 
and hitch alluded to, it would have added to the value of 
the information. ^ 
—A hunter with a dog and gun was roving over the 
farm of Mary Jane Pratt, of Iroquois County, Ill., and 
she ordered him off the premises. " Oh, you ain’t in any 
danger; I ain’t hunting old maids,” was his reply. Re¬ 
turning to the house, she brought out a gun, and blazing 
away, killed the hunter’s dog. He threw up his hands 
and yelled, “Do you mean to murder me?” “Oh you 
ain't in any danger, I ain’t hunting for fools,” she replied, 
hut she brought the gun again to her shoulder. Her hus¬ 
band appeared and prevented further bloodshed, 
—Dr. Rawlings Young, of Corinth, Mississippi, claims 
the name, Rhoebe II, for black and white setter puppy six 
months old, by Dasb HI out of Rhoebe ; bred by Harvard 
Kennel Club, Cambridge, Mass. Also, the name of Nova 
II, for red Irish setter bitch, fourteen months old, by 
Bltxer (Elcho Erin) out of Easter (Rufus II-MoU H). 
— Mr. Benj. H. Lee, of Neiv London, Conn., clainiB the 
name of Neff for a red Irish setter pup, by Lincoln & Hel- 
yar’s Arlington, out of Wenzel’s Doe, whelped Septem¬ 
ber 7th. 
—The red Irish setter bitch, Peg Woffington, owned by 
Mr. W. H. Bradley, of Chicago, Ill., has been bred to Dr, 
Wm. Jarvis’s champion Elcho. 
^xcItHng mid Routing, 
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New York. Charleston. 
YACHT DESIGN. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
Seeing so much in your valuable paper on yacht build¬ 
ing, with so many conflicting ideas and principles, I 
thought I would put some things on paper in reference to 
a subject which I have studied out and proved practically 
through an experience of thirty years. 
Most writers on this subject have one or two good 
principles or ideas which they advocate, and were there 
no other principles to operate against them they would 
be all right. But there are many things brought into 
operation which have to be considered in building a success¬ 
ful yacht; hence the failure of most writers as well as 
builders. One person has one particular principle upper¬ 
most in his mind, and a second has another, a third still 
something else, and these hobbies they are apt to ran wild 
on, to the exclusion of all others. But he who can under¬ 
stand the workings of all influences acting upon sailing 
vessels when under way, and so properly combine the 
elements of success, will be able to construct the most 
satisfactory yacht. 
Of course, some consideration should be taken of the 
work any particular craft will be required to do, and the 
principles best adapted to that work should be most 
prominent in her construction. Now, I wish to notice 
some things that several writers have said in your paper 
from time to time, and to point out where they are right 
and where they are wrong, in my opinion. 
First, then, I will notice the small Corinthian cutter in 
your number of Jan. 80th. In an article on that subject 
you say the ordinary sloop yacht can lay claim to but one 
advantage over the Corinthian, and that is in the matter 
