Jtnffl 15, 1883,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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MR. GEO. T. LEACH'S RED IRISH SETTER DOG "BROCK," and MR. J. O. DONNER'S ENGLISH SETTER BITCH "BESSIE." 



BROCK AND BESSIE. 



OUR illustration this week is a field scene from the pencil of 

 the well-known artist. Mr. J. M. Tracy, who has succeeded 

 admirably in giving a life-like picture of the setters Brock and 

 Bessie. Brock is a red Irish setter dog by Osbom's Bosco out 

 of Princepp's My Duchess, and is owned by Mr. Geo. T. 

 Leach, of New York. He won the Members' Cup at the East- 

 em Field Trials, on Robin's Island, in 1881. and the Forest 

 'AND Stream Cup for the best do? owned and run by an ama- 

 teur handler at the same meeting. Bessie, is a white, with 

 lemon ear, English setter hitch, by Ranger II. out of Mallard's 

 Belie, and is owned by Mr. J. 0. Donner, of New York. She 

 second in the Puppy Stakes at the Eastern Field Trials, 

 1879, and was the runner up with Brock in the Members' 

 ake at the last meeting on Robin's Island. We append a 

 irtion of our report of the heat, as the picture forcibly re- 

 minds us of the position of the dogs in the last point described: 

 "We reached the island at nine o'clock amid a sprinkle of 

 ifcain, but, nothing daunted, a start was made, and Mr. Den- 

 ver's Bessie and Mr. Leach's Brock were cut loose just east of 

 ;tbe Club House, for what proved to be the last as well as one 

 of the best heats of the whole meeting 



Both dogs ranged in good form through the open lot to the 

 southeast corner, where Bessie challenged by the fence and 

 5rock a little further west. He had the best of it, and soon 

 made a beautiful point with his nose close to the ground, just 

 jto the edge of a brush heap, and his tail high in the. air, 

 Bessie backing handsomely. Mr. Leach flushed to order, and 

 got in a very neat right and left, killing both birds in an 

 artistic manner, and winning the only honors of the kind 

 during the meeting. This was a grand performance all 

 round, and was not excelled by any incident that we wit- 

 nessed. Brock scored a good retrieve for the first bird, but 

 was looking for the balance of the bevy, and did not find the 

 •.second one. Moving on into the sprouts, Bessie challenged, 

 Brut B -ock again struck them first, and came to a point, and 

 fflnd Bessie again backed. The birds were flushed, but not 

 shot at. Bessie then roaded out to the northeast comer of 

 "the cornfield, where she made a beautiful point, but the birds 

 had gone. Some very fine ranging and quartering was doae 

 ' by both dogs over the field. Bessie swung into the hollow, 

 aiid came to a very nice point on a small bevy. Mr. Donner 

 ■flashed and missed, Bessie dropping to wing, and Brock, who 

 had come up, remained steady. Just then a wing-broken 

 Lpird ran out of the weeds in plain sight of the dogs, and Mr. 

 ' t Donner shot the bird to put it out of misery. Both dogs 

 [remained remarkably steady through this very trying ordeal ; 

 Irock to order, and Bessie without a word. This was very 

 Bessie to order retrieved nicely. Working south 

 jugh the pasture, both dogs came to a" point at nearly the 

 ae instant; Brosk just at the top of the rise where he 

 iwed grandly, and Bessie a little to the east in the edge of 

 brush. Judge Costar borrowed a gun, and flushing the 

 ,, let drive. The poor little thing happened to fly in the 

 ction of the shot, and was instantly killed.* Bessie 

 ,1'ieved it, and then swung round toward Brock, who had 

 imained staunch, but now roaded a short distance, and 

 again pointed in the edge of the woods, and was very hand- 

 somely backed by the bitch. Mr. Leach flushed the bird and 

 missed it very nicely. Both dogs were very steady to wing 

 BOd gun This was grand work and keenly enjoyed by those 

 who witnessed it. 



THE CHICKEN TRIALS. 



THE following additional entries for the Derby have been 

 received ; 

 } 9. J. 0. Donner enters Dashing Belle (Decimal Dash-Bessie). 

 10. Same owner enters Mate (Paris-Fairy Belle). 

 1L H. Widdicomb enters Prince (Count Noble-Nellie). • 



12. Same owner enters Countess Nellie (Count Noble-Nellie). 



13. B. F. Wilson and J. J. Snellenburg enter Josephine 

 (Don C-Cora). 



14. J. J. Snellenburg enters Queen Laverack (Tory-Meg 

 [Merriles). Jos. H. Dew, Secretary. 



THE GREYHOUND CHALLENGE. -Arrangements were 

 ade for the meetiu'j at London, Ont., Juno 10, of the cele- 

 •ated greyhounds Spring and Doubleshot to decide the mo- 

 utous question of superiority, and it is to be regretted 

 i owing to causes beyond control of the owue.s they 

 lid have fallen through. Early last week we were 

 iled by the owner of Spring of his intentions in the mat- 

 . and at once communicated them to Mr. Lotz. The two 

 intlemen, Mr. C, Eustace Dawson, of Montreal, Canada, who 

 s Spring, and Mr. L. C. F. Lotz, of Chicago, the owner of 



Doubleshot, agreed to send the animals to London, Ont., 

 where the matter would have been decided in due form. 

 Mr. Dawson therefore sent Spring and Mr. Lotz telegraphed 

 to Mr. Hennessy, who had charge of Doubleshot at Cleve- 

 land, O. , to send him by express to London on Saturday, but 

 owing to the hot weather and confinement at the show, he 

 was clearly not in a condition to meet the- engagement, and 

 Mr. Hennessy very properly refused to send him There will 

 undoubtedly be a meeting of these dogs at an 'early day, as 

 each owner is confident that he has the best. 



PITTSBURGH DOG SHOW FOR 1883.— The Western Penn- 

 sylvania Poultry Society claim the first week in April of 1883 

 for their fifth annual bench show. Mr. Chas. Lincoln will 

 superintend— Edward Grigg, President. 



THE DOG. 

 His History and Qualities.— III. 



BY SEN-EX. 



IN looking up the history of the dogs of England, I came 

 across a very valuable and quaint old treatise, written in 

 the year 157ft, in Latin, by Johannes Caius, Doctor of Physic 

 in the University of Cambridge. This is a treatise on "the 

 diversities, the "names, the natures tfnd the properties of 

 English dogs." This I believe is the first printed English 

 book on dogs. In speaking of these dogs he says: 



"In the second section of this discourse Caius thus writes of 

 gentle dogs serving the hawk, and first of the spaniel, called 

 in Latin Hispaniolus, 'Such dogs as serve for fowling I think 

 convenient and requisite to place in this second section of this 

 treatise. These are also to be reckoned and accounted in the 

 number of the dogs which come of a gentle kind, and of 

 those which serve for fowling. There be two sorts, viz. , the 

 first findeth gaane on the land; the other findeth game on the 

 water. 1 



"Such as delight on the land play their parts, either by 

 swiftness of foot or by often questing to search out and to 

 spring the bird for further hope of advantage, or else by some 

 secret sign and privy token bewray the place where they 

 fall. The first kind oi: such serve the hawk; the second the 

 net or train. The first kind have no peculiar names assigned 

 unto them, save only that they be denominated after the bird 

 which, by natural appointment, he is allotted to take, for the 

 which consideration the cocker is thus named as spoken of 

 hereafter. 



"Some be called dogs for the falcon, the pheasant, the part- 

 ridge and such like. The common sort of people call them 

 by one general word, namely, spaniels, as though this kind of 

 dogs came originally and first of all out of Spain. The most 

 part of their skins is white, and if they be marked with any 

 spots they are commonly red and somewhat great there- 

 withal, the hairs not growing in such thickness, but that the 

 mixture of them may easily be perceived. Other some of 

 them be reddish and blackish, but of that sort there be but a 

 very few. This is the cocker spaniel." 



We are "to choose him by his shape, beauty, mettall, and 

 cunning hunting ; his shape being discerned in the good com- 

 position of hi» body, as when he hath a round thick head, a 

 short nose, a long, well compact, and fiairie eare ; broad syde 

 hps; a cleere red eie; a thick neck; broad breast; short and 

 well knit joints: round feete; strong cleys; good round ribs; 

 a gaunt beilie; a short broad baeke; a thick bushie and long- 

 haired taile and all his body generally long and well-haired. 

 He is small, with a 'wanton playing taile' and a, busie labour- 

 ing nose and to give his master warning of what he seenteth, 

 he doeth it by whimpering and whinnies, ma kin g him adapted 

 for covert hunting. They vary in size from 14 to 20 lb. in 

 weight, and sometimes the clogs reach as high as 30 lb. or :!."> lb. 



"There is also, at this day among us, a new kind of dog 

 brought out of France (for we Englishmen are marvellously 

 greedy gaping gluttons after novelties and covetous cormor- 

 ants of things that be seldom, rare, strange and hard to get), 

 and they be speckled all over with white and black, which 

 mingled colours incline to a marble blue hue ; which beautifleth 

 their skins and aff ordeth a seemly show of comeliness. These 

 are called French doss, as is above declared already. 



"The dog called the setter; in Latin, Index, another sort 

 Of dogs be there, serviceable for fowling, making no noise 

 either with foot or with tongue, whiles they follow the game. 

 They attend diligently upon then- master, and frame their 

 conditions to such becks, motions and gestures, as it shall 

 please him to exhibit and make j either going forward, draw- 

 ing backward, inclining to the right hand or yielding toward 



the left. In making mention of fowls, my meaning is of the 

 partridge and the quail. When he hath found the bird he 

 keepeth sure and fast silence, he. stayeth his steps and will 



Eroceed no further ; and with a close, covert, watching eve, 

 lyeth his belly to the ground, and so creepeth forward like a 

 worm. AVhen he approacheth near to the place where, the 

 bird is, he lays him down, and with a mark of his paws 

 betraryeth the place of the. bird's last abode: whereby it is 

 supposed that this kind of dog is called index 'setter,' being 

 indeed a name most consonant and agreeable to his quality. 



"The place being known by the means of the dog, the fowler 

 im m ediately openeth and spreadeth his net, intending to take 

 them; which being done, the dog, at the ascustomed beck or 

 usual sign of his master, riseth up by and by and draweth 

 nearer to the fowl, that by his presence they might be the 

 authors of their own ensaring and be ready entangled in the 



Srepared net. Which cunning and artificial endeavor in a 

 og (being a creature domesticated or household servant; 

 brought up at home with offals of the trencher and fragments 

 of victuals) is not much to be marvelled at, seeing that a hare 

 being a wild and skippish beast — was seen in England to the 

 astonishment of the beholders, in the year of our Lord God 

 1504, not only dancing in measure, but playing with his former 

 feet upon a tabaret and observing a just number of strokes, 

 as a practitioner in that art; besides that, nipping and pinch- 

 a dog with his teeth and claws and cruelty thumping him 

 with the force of his feet. 



"This is no trumpery tale nor trifling toy as I imagine, and 

 therefore not worthy to be reported, for I reckon it a requital 

 of my travail not to drown in the seas of silence any special 

 thing, wherein the providence and effectual working of na- 

 ture is to be pondefed. 



Of the Dog, Called the Water Spaniel, or Finder; 

 in Latin, Aquaticu$,seu Inquisitor. 



"That kind of dog whose service is required in fowling upon 

 the water, partly through a. natural towardness. and pai tly 

 by diligent teaching, is endued with that property. This sort 

 is somewhat big and of a measurable greatness; having long, 

 rough and curled hair, not obtained by extraordinary trades, 

 but given by Nature's appointment; yet, nevertheless, friend 

 Gessner! I have described and set him out in this manner, 

 namely, pulled and knotted from the shoulders to the hinder- 

 most legs, and to the end of his tail, which I did for use and 

 custom's cause; that belugas it were made somewhat bare 

 and naked, by shearing of such superfluity of hair, they might 

 achieve more lightness and swiftness, and be less hindeied in 

 swimming, so troublesome and needless a burden being 

 shaken off. 



"This kind of dog is properly called Aquations, a "water 

 spaniel," because he frequenteth and hath recourse to the 

 water, where all his game and exercise, lieth; namely, water- 

 fowls, which are taken by the help and service of them in 

 their kind. And principally ducks and drakes, whereupon lie 

 is likewise named "a dog for the duck,'' because in that qual- 

 ity he is excellent. With these dogs, also, we fetch out of the 

 water such fowl as be stung to death by any venomous worm. 

 We use them also to bring us our bolts and arrows out of the 

 water, missing our mark whereat we directed our level; which 

 otherwise we should hardly recover; and often times the.v re- 

 store to us our shafts, which we thought never to see, touch 

 or handle again alter they were lost; for which circumstances 

 they are called inquisitorcs. -Searchers' and 'Finders.' 



"Although the duck other whiles notably deceiveth both 

 the dog and the. master by diving under the" water; an* also 

 by natural subtility, for if any man shall approach to the 

 place where they build, breed or sit, the hens go out of their 

 neat, offering themselves voluntarily to the. hands, as it were, 

 of such as draw nigh their nests. And a certain weakness of 

 their wings pretended, and infirmitv of their feet dissembled, 

 they go so slowly and so leisurely that to a man's thinking it 

 were no masteries to take them, By whim deceitful trick 

 they do, as it were, entice and allure men to follow them, tiU 

 they be drawn a long distance from their nests; which being 

 compassed by their provident cunning, or cunning providence", 

 they cut off all inconveniences which might grow of their re- 

 turn by using many and curious caveats, le-t then often limiting 

 bewray the place whe i e the young ducklings be hatched. Great", 

 therefore is their desire, and earnest is their study to take 

 heed, not only to then brood, but also to themselves. For when 

 they have an inkling that they are, espied they hide them- 

 selves under turfs and sedges, wherewith they cover and 

 shroud themselves so closely" and so craftily that (notwith- 

 standing the place where they lurk be found or perfectly per- 

 ceived) there they will harbor without harm; except the 

 'water spaniel,' by quick smelling, discover their deceits." 



