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FIXTURES. 



BF.NCH SHOWS. 



March 1, 6, 6 and 7.— Cincinnati Bench Show, IMclortian Hall. En- 

 tries close Feb. 26. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B. Kit- 



tmige <£ Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



March IS, 13 ana 14.— New Haven Kennel Cluli's First Annual Bench 

 Show, Second Regiment Armory, Edward S. Porter. Secretary, BOX 

 ■■■■• Haven, Conn. Entries close March 1. 



March -::G. T, ami 28.— The Dominion Kennel Club's .Second Annual 

 Bench* Show. Horticultural Gardens. C. Oreville Tlarston, Secretary. 

 Toronto. Canada. 



April 3, 4 and 6.— The Cleveland Bench Shmv Association's Second 

 Beneli Show. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 0. fit. "viunhall, Sec- 

 retary. Cleveland, Ohio. ,. , , . 



May 6, 7. 8 and 9.— The Westminster Kennel Club's Eighth Annual 

 Bench Show, Madison Square Garden Entries close April 21. Chas. 

 Lincoln, Superintendent. R, 0. Cornell, Secretary, 54 AVilham street, 

 New York. 



A. K. R. 



THE VMKUiCAN kennel REGISTER, tor the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 

 hshed every month. Entries close, on the 1st. Should he in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope, 

 i ration lee (85 cents) must accompany each entry, No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly' subscription |1. Address 

 •American Kennel Register,'' P. o". Box ;.'F:w, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 889. Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

 postpaid, $1.60 



THE BEAGLE CLUB. 



AT the request of the committee of the American-Englisli 

 Beagle Club, we have taken charge of the ballot for offi- 

 cers of the club, who have been chosen as follows: 

 For President, 

 Me. W. H. AsnnTjrtNER, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 For Secretary and Treasurer, 

 Mr. A. C. KkctSGEB, YVnghtsville, Pa. 



For Executive Committee. 

 G-ES. F. A. Bond, Jessnp, Md. 

 Mr. J. N". Dodge, Detroit, Mich. 

 Dr. J. W. Downey, New Market, Md. 



CLEVELAND DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



If the number of letters that I am receiving every day from 

 all parts of the country, asking for premium lists, is indicative 

 of the number of entries we will have, our second bench show 

 ■wall be one of the largest exhibitions ever tield west of New 

 York. The premium list is now in the hands of the printer: 

 soon as issued they will be well distributed among sportsme- . 

 We shall hold our'show Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 

 3, 4 and 5, at Roller Kink, Euclid" avenue, same building that 

 we had for our first exhibition. It is, well suited for the pur- 

 pose. We decided to try the three-days plan at the request 

 of many exhibitors, who claim that four days is too long to 

 confine- the dogs. The Malcolm standard will be used for 

 judging the black and tan setter. C. M. Munhall, Sec'y. 

 . Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1884. 



ON THE SCENT. 



SATURDAY morning, the 26th of January, dawned clear 

 and cold, and there being a good tracking snow, it gave 

 me the fever for a fox hunt. Having no hound of my own, I 

 hied me to a neighbor's and borrowed his dog, and off I 

 started. Climbing a hill off to the southwest of my home I 

 work along on its top for quite a distance without finding a 

 sign of a track. I saw quite a large flock of crows, though, 

 that had evidently been fooled by the weather, "prognostica- 

 tors" prophesying an open winter, and had stayed around, 

 and are seemingly having a pretty hard time to get a living. 

 Going to the trees where they had been, I found the snow 

 plentifully besprinkled with beechnut burrs, which they had 

 shook off in some way, and then had thoroughly examined, to 

 get what few nuts remained in them. 



I finally gave up trying to find a fox on that hill, and struck 

 across oh to a hill hi the direction of Home. Here Range soon 

 found a track, but it was pretty cold, and he would not 

 "open" on it. He followed it, however, across on to another 

 hill, around its various crooks and turns, most of the time in 

 sight, till he worked it up to a rocky point when I lost sight of 

 him for a moment, but the next instant my blood was sent 

 dancing through my veins by his giving tongue in such a stream' 

 of joyous yelps that toid me at once he had bounced Mr. Fox. 

 And then" out in sight they came, the fox only a short distance 

 ahead. He knew his fleetness of foot, however, and only ran 

 as fast as it was necessary. He ran on the walls most of the 

 time, once going entirely around a lot of about four acres on 

 the wall, with the exception of cutting off the corners a short 

 distance, as he evidently knew the dog would cut across and 

 gain considerably on him if he followed the fence clear around. 

 As he had no trouble to keep out of the way, I soon saw that 

 he would hot cross to the hill where I was. so concluded that 

 I better get oyer there as soon as possible and have a hand in 

 the fun myself So away I went, going into the snow up to 

 my knees occasionally, but with that "music" lending its im- 

 pulse to "get there."" 



I soon reached a -wall where I could command a view of 

 the situation. Soon the music, began to come nearer, and then 

 I saw that the fox was going to run on a wall to the right of 

 me; so, bending over so as not to be seen, I gain the stand , 

 and with gun at "ready," wait til! he gets as near as I care 

 anything about having him, and at once open fire. At the 

 first discharge he goes off ii'om the wall out of sight ; but I don't 

 know as he is "done for," so run down closa to the wall, and 

 there he. was going like a red streak, but I at once give him 

 the other barrel, which sent him headlong into the. snow, 

 where he scrabbled around for a moment and then jumped 

 up and away he went up the hill. I promptly tucked a shell 

 into one barrel and spoke to him again; but he didn't mind it, 

 and no wonder, for when I went to see where the shot struck 

 T could not find any marks in the snow. Now, either that 

 shell didn't have any shot in it, or else I tried to be sure and 

 head him off, and so sent them clear to the top of the hill. 

 My second shot made hirn bleed pretty freely, though, for a 

 while. He had fooled around there as long as he proposed 

 to, however, and so led way O-j. to "hills and valleys new"— 

 to me. I followed on after, hoping that he would turn and 

 come back, but as there seemed to be no prospect of it, I 

 finally started for home to load up some more shells— and my 

 stomach. The dog did not come home till the next after- 

 noon. The snow was nineteen inches deep that day in the 

 woods, where it had not drifted any. (J. Fay. 



Fhaxklin. N. Y., Jan. 30, 1884. 



PHOTOGRAPHS.— We have Deceived from Mr. G. Mills, of 

 Hudson, N. Y. , two photographs of the red Irish setter dogs, 

 GhiSss and Snap (litter brother's), bred by him, and the winners 

 of nine prizes before they were two years old in New York, 

 Washington and Cleveland. The pictures are excellent photo- 

 graphs, and do credit to both dogs and artist, 



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MR. THOS. G. DAVEY'S BLACK AND WHITE ENGLISH SETTER DOG "PRINCE PHCEBUS." 

 Winner of very high com. reserve, London, Ont., 1883. 



PRINCE PHCEBUS. 



E give this week a cut of the black and white English 

 setter dog Prince Phoebus, owned by Mr. T. G. Davey. 

 London, Ont. Prince Phoebus was whelped April 3, 1880. He 

 is by Tarn o' Shanter (E.K.C.S.B. (U18) and out of Pruo 

 (E.K.C.S.B. 5,W4): He was imported by Mr. Davey last Sep- 

 tember from the kennel of Mr. T. R. H. Dairy m pie. Stranraer, 

 Eng. He. was exhibited a month later at the London show, 

 where he won very highly commended reserve, in the open 

 class for English setter "dogs, and the special for the best Eng- 

 lish setter dog owned in London. He is quite a good looking 

 dog with an evenly marked bead, good chest, body, loin and 

 quarters. His stifles are well bent and he has the appearance 

 of being a speedy, useful animal. 



THE CLUMBER SPANIEL. 



But if the shady woods my cares employ, 

 In quest of feathered game my spaniels beat, 

 Puzzling the entangled copse, end frosn the brake 

 Push forth the. whirring pheasant. 



THE Clumber spaniel is a thorough gentleman's dog, a regu- 

 lar aristocrat, and ought, to be seen in perfection, to be 

 worked in a large team, and such as only a rich man can 

 afford to keep; and well bred and broken," and shot to in 

 covert suitable to such dogs, it is certainly a great treat to a 

 sportsman. 



A Clumber or two, from their slow gait and large size, are 

 of little use in an ordinary way, and for general work are not 

 much to be recommended. At the same time, there is no 

 doubt it is the scarcest, the choicest, and the most valuable 

 breed of spaniels we have. 



The first mention I can find of them by the name of Clum- 

 ber is in an article in the old Sporting Magazine, which also 

 gives an engraving by a well-known man of his day, Bartol- 

 ozzi, of a team of dogs belonging to his Grace, the Duke ot 

 Newcastle, and their keeper, Mansell, with a woodcock in his 

 hands. They were said to have been imported from France, 

 and were given to the Duke by the Duke de Noailles (it does 

 not appear at all clear when these dogs were imported from 

 France, but if, as is supposed, this breed of dogs all sprung 

 from the Duke's kennel, they must have been there for a num- 

 ber of years, as it will appear presently that Loni Westmore- 

 land had them a century and a half ago) ; and it is from their 

 having been, as is belieyed, first bred at Clumber Park, the. 

 Duke of Newcastle's seat in' Nottinghamshire, and have ever 

 since been largely bred until the last few years, and carefully 

 treasured and preserved there, that they take then- name. 

 For a great many years the Duke of Newcastle was very 

 chary of the breed, and consequently they got into vory few 

 nanus: but I believe at a sale some years ago they were nearly 

 all sold. The family of Mansell have been keepers to the suc- 

 cessive dukes for a great many years, and paid great atten- 

 tion to this treed of spaniels. 



Although I cannot prove it, I have a very great idea that 

 this, after all, is an original English breed, and that they were 

 exported from England, it may be centuries ago. In one of the 

 very earliest books written on this dog I find it stated in these 

 words: "The French dogs are derived or propagated of the 

 dogs of Great Britain." And in another place, "The Spanish 

 dogs whom the French call Espagneuls have long ears, but 

 not like branches (meaning hounds), and by their noses hunt 

 both hares and comes. They are not rough, but srnooth-coat- 

 ed." I take it that by smooth coats the author did not mean 

 to imply that they were smoootn-coated like a pointer, or, as 

 is now the fashion with our beautiful but useless black span- 

 iels, but flat-coated like a well bred settex - . 



m another old book the author says: "You must be pro- 

 vided with a good spaniel that will range about well, and 

 when he hath perched the pheasant, to bay soundly, which 

 will cause them to keep the perch the better ; then, hearing 

 whereabouts he is, make up to him as privately as possible, 

 and having espied him (being at a reasonable distance), make 

 your shot; and for your dog's encouragemend, let him bring 

 him to you and make much of him." This I should think, did 

 not mean the Clumber spaniel; for one great characteristic of 

 that breed is that it is perfectly mute when on game. One 

 can hardly help smiling at the author's quaint way of writing, 

 it puts one in mind of an American dog "treeing a 'coon." 



The following is an extract from an article in the old Sport- 

 ing Magazine; although the writer does not say so, I have no 

 doubt whatever that the sxianiels he refers to were Clumbers: 

 "Lord Westmorland used to have a first-rate breed of spaniels 

 fifty years ago, and they had been in the family for upwards 

 of a century, and they were extremely choice of the blood 

 and each under-keeper had six or seven brace under his par- 

 ticular care, as well as some particular wood or portion of the 

 forest, which contained -20,000 acres, of which 8,000 were wood. 

 A gentleman who shot over them in 1885, says: 'Renshaw's 

 are allowed to be the crack spaniels of the establishment, and 



fine fellows thev looked as they met my eye that morning. I 

 fancy myself to be a judge of a spaniel, and these appeared 

 what spaniels should be; all of a color, lemon and white, short- 

 legged, thick-backed, and ears nut too long or curlv, which 

 may suit the parlor, but agrees very id with briars or burrs. 

 1 never saw dogs in better working condition, nor spaniels 

 under finer command when we went to work with them. 

 Practice had indeed made them perfect; they had just enough 

 chase about them to drive a hare or rabbit across the line of 

 guns; but, at the same time, theykept so well within range, 

 and packed so admirably, that" 4 scarcely saw a pheasant 

 spring ont of shot during the day.' This is one of the charms 

 of shooting to Clumbers; when once well broken they are per- 

 fectly steady and give no troubie. Although a busy and a 

 steady worker, he seems to consider that when he has put up 

 the game his duty is accomplished, and he has no wish to run 

 open-mouthed after his game like we see in all old paintings 

 and engravings of spaniels at work : thev are all represented 

 in close proximity to the. game, apparently all anxiety to 

 catch it." 



The late Lord Middleton, of Wollaton Hall, Notts, had at 

 one time a first-rate breed of spaniels, which he brought to 

 the highest perfection. "Nimrod," in an article on pheasant 

 shooting, mentions these, and also some belonging to Mr. Ctif- 

 fard, of Chilhngton Hall, Stafflqretshire, which he says were 

 the only ones he ever saw fit to be taken out with highly 

 broken pointers; when in cover the spaniels found the game 

 and the pointers came to heel, in the open the pointers ranged 

 and the spaniels came to heel with one crack of the. whip, 

 one of the spanials would back the pointersii allowed to do 

 so, which must be considered a verv rare accomplishment in- 

 deed, and one not very easily acquired. These spaniels I be- 

 lieve to have been Clumbers: I don't know whether "Kimrod" 

 knew as much about shooting as he did of hunting, but he 

 was a thorough sportsman, and no doubt understood what he 

 was 'writing about. 



Morlaud, the celebrated animal painter, has many paintings 

 and sketches of spaniels, always in a quiet, steady attitude, 

 and nearly all of them are, if not really Clumbers, at all 

 events very much of that character, and I do not think that 

 for many years the breed was so exclusively confined to the 

 Duke of Newcastle's kennels as many people suppose; the 

 Duke, no doubt, jealously kept his own strain from getting 

 common, but I have strong grounds for believing the Clumber 

 to have been originally sent from this country to France and 

 re-imported there. The Dube's strain, which was given to him 

 by the Duke de Noailles, was in all probability derived from 

 English stock. 



I fimily believe the Clumber spaniel to be one of our early 

 and original breeds of dogs, frequent mention being made by 

 old writers of orange or lemon and white spaniels. 



Lord Westmorland's dogs, therefore, as well as several 

 Others, may not have been related to the Duke of Newcastle's 

 strain at all, and will account for the great difference in head 

 and other points in the several breeds at this time, notably in 

 the late Prince Consort's and the Earl of Arundel's kennels at 

 Wardour Castle. 



In the. early days of dog shows Mr. R. Boaler shewed some 

 very fine dogs; but to my thinking they were hardly heavy 

 enough, had a little too much daylight under them, and, 

 though not wanting in true Clumber character, were not equal 

 to the Duke of Newcastle or Mr. Holford's strains. 



Nevertheless, as I have said, they were very fine dogs; he. 

 had bred them carefully for many "years, and 4 know- them to 

 have been good dogs in 'the Geld. Mr. Boaler was, I believe, 

 keeper to the Duke, of Portland, and if so, probably they were 

 really his dogs. The next to show Clumbers was Mr, R. Stay- 

 ner Hoiford, M, P., of Westor Birt, who carried all before .him 

 when he consented to exhibit them. A team of his spaniels 

 was exhibited on one occasion at Islington, and created a great 

 sensation. They were justly and greatly admired, and were 

 at one time, if not so now, the largest and best kennel of Clum- 

 ber spaniels in the kingdom. Mr. Hoiford won all six prizes 

 at Birmingham in 1802, with, as "Stonehenge" says, "such a 

 team as in all probability were never put together 'before." I 

 have never seen better Clumbers anywhere than Mr. Hol- 

 ford's, and his dogs, Kim bush. Rover and Brush, and bitches, 

 Truce, Venus and Silk, have never been, in my opinion, 

 equalled, not to say excelled, as a team. 



I have seen as many as fifty couples in his kennel at one 

 time, everyone worth' a Jew's eve. Mr. Hoiford spared no 

 expense or trouble in obtaining the best blood, and he was 

 ably seconded by Garland, his head keeper, than whom no 

 man in England understood better what a Clumber spaniel 

 really is. Garland went every year on a visit to the best ken- 

 nels, to see if he could pick up anything to improve his own : 

 and if he found it, no price stood in the way. I have shot to 

 over twenty couples at once on several occasions, and then- 

 work was certainly as near perfection as regards covert -shoot- 

 ing to spaniels as it is possible to attain. They were usually 

 hunted by the bead keeper with a queer-looking fellow called 



