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he refers to, he will find that his mame was never alluded to, 
and the protest was printed but in two papers, ForEs'tr AND 
SMRHAM and Turf, Mield and Farm. How, then, can Mr. M, 
support his statement that because he did not get his paper he 
could not explain sooner? Mr. M. ignores the fact that he was 
not detained at his country house, for I called on him in New 
York July 1, and though he was out on business he was, or 
would have been, home in ten minutes, and had I had the 
time to spare I should have seen him; as it was, I was de- 
prived of the pleasure. Mr. McCollom sees ForrsT AND 
STREAM every week, also the other papers, whether he is at 
his “country house” or at his ‘house in the city,” and it is a 
httle late in the day to.try to get out of adding his name to a 
protest which appeared six weeks ago. 
What Mr. MeCollom gaid about the judging of pointers at 
New Yorkis known te a score of people. I will not write 
what he said, for you, Mr. Editor, erindta not print it if I did. 
I will simply add that he denounced it in the strongest 
language, and especially the awards in the champion large 
dog class and the small champion bitch class. Said Mr, McCol- 
lom, ‘‘T would not give $25 for Meteor and Vanity together,” 
and Mr. McCollom showed good judgment. There is really no 
perceptible reason why Mr. MeCollom should toady to anybody, 
and I take him to be strong enough to resist influence. I can 
assure him that he has nothing to fear. He shall not be barred 
from exhibiting, neither shall he be excluded from dog shows, 
though he might be from ‘‘bench” shows. What once was 
cannot be again. 
“The past is as a story told, 
The future may be writ in sold.” 
The anonymous letters of ‘Pious H.,” “Starling,” ‘“Ah-Pe,” 
and *‘16-Bore,” in the same paper, are so much alike that we 
might conclude they are written by the same individual. They 
only can carry weight with people of the same social standing 
as the writer of them. Gentlemen and sportsmen hate 
sowardice, and supreme contempt is the reply of gentlemen to 
such productions. 
“Affect a candor which thou canst not feel, 
Clothe envy in the garb of honest zeal.” 
CHARLES H. Mason, 
ToMPEINSVILLE, Staten Island. 
ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 
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7 OU will have to decide for yourselyes what sized beagles 
will suit you best—it of course depends upon the work 
they are required for, I got the following letter in a round 
about way, and though for certain reasons I have not been 
been able to ask permission to publish it, yet I hope should 
fhe writer see himself in print he will accept my apology for 
making use of his information: 
“DEAR StR—There was no need to introduce yourself with 
so many excuses, the fact that you are a sportsman is suffi- 
cient. Jt is a trouble I will always gladly accept to assist in 
raising interest in pure breeds, especially that one in which I 
take a particular interest, viz,, the basset hounds. You are 
correctly informed that the two couples Lord Aylesford took 
out to the United States were from my kennel, Agreeably 
ta your wish lt made a call on his lordship to learn bis opinion 
on the breed’sfuture in America, and to find out what he 
thinks of beagles for hunting over there. ‘Am I pleased with 
the basset hounds? asked his’ lordship, ‘Of courseIam. I 
have had some good fun with them in Texas; they are the 
most amusing dogs] know, and as for hunting, well their love 
of it almost amounts to a fault, for when they are out doing 
it to please you, if you don't look out they'll be off to please 
themselves.’ 
rf NBA do the Americans think of the breed, anyhow? J 
asked. 
‘Like them immensely, and want them badly; look hers, 
that’s a letter lreceiyed.’ [t was from Mr. Chamberlain of 
New York, asking Lord Aylesford if he couldnot spare a 
bitch from his imported hounds. Mr, Chamberlain's hound 
Nemours, that took a prize in New York, he bought as a 
puppy of me when he was in England. His lordship told me 
e intended to take back several more to increase his small 
stock in Texas, Inextusked about the beagles, and his de- 
Seription of jack-rabbit hunting opened my eyes a bit. Ii these 
American hares go to ground like our rabbits, then certainly 
the twelve-iltich beagle, or better the basset hound, would do, 
but on the other hand, when you get a run with them, Lord 
Aylesford doesn’t see anything less than harriers can be of use, 
such a rate do they go, and in fact his lordship intends to 
take out with him in the autumn seyeral couples of harriers. 
Among his basset hounds will be Texas Fino, a full brother to 
Fino VL. Heisa grand little hound and shows his pedigree. 
He is a son of champion Fino V., and sograndson of champion 
Wino de Paris. On his dam’s side he is related to Guinevere 
and Theo, so Texas Fino is of the purest Count le Couteulx de 
Conteleu strain and Artesian type. I am sorry I cannot tell 
you more about beagles, they are a breed I have not studied, 
but Ishall be happy to give you the address of a friend of 
mine who was lately master of a well-known pack, and whose 
writings over the nom de plume of ‘Beagle’ are familiar to the 
readers of the Field. if you write to him [ am certain he 
would be pleased to tell you his experience,” 
There was a small but not uninteresting lass of beagles at 
the Crystal Palace Show on the Ist of July. Mr. Beckshowed 
three beauties, one of them faking. first prize. This was 
Myrile, by Minstrel—Handmaid. She has already taken 
honors at Warwick and is a sori that would fill the eye of 
your fourteen-inch men. To my mind she is too light for a 
hound, too much the style of a fox-terrier, inclined to be 
light, shelly, legey, not substance enough to’do a hard day’s 
work but undeniably pretty and full of quality. I liked the 
sazhe owner’s Abigail much better, She is a Birmingham 
Winner and though in excellent condition was only he, here. 
She has a far truer beagle hound type of head than her 
kennel mate Myrtle. Honesty I1., from the same kennel, de- 
served the vhe, I only saw one of Mr. 0, J, Carew-Gibson’s 
entries, Sportsman Il., an extraordinary cur, not worth his 
chain and collar, a little lumbering clumsy dwarf, he looked 
like a bad cross with a basset hound, and though stated to be 
only four years old is as gray as a badger. I saw a letter in 
the papers from Mr, Carew saying his other had run away, 
was too modest to show itself I should think. 
Now, a puff is not a puff unless the writer makes something 
out of it, and as I.don’t know Mr. W. H. Parker from Adam, 
what I have to say about his two entries may benefit him and 
may benefit the breed, but I can’t get anything out of it. I 
think his Freeland Countess and Freeland Duchess, second and 
vhe.,, are as perfect a little couple as ever I saw. {know not 
what they may be at the shoulder, but I should guess 12 
inches. They are compact and substantial, with wonderful 
bone for such small hounds, and the very type, I fear, 1s being 
lost. Their pedigree runs through generations of fashionable 
strains, they are only a year old, and were catalogued at £12 
each, I did not hear if they were claimed, but I consider they 
were the cheapest dogs in the show, My fingers itched to 
sign a check for them, They are a pair of models. 
he show was a splendid sight, and all the celebrities of the 
canine world were there; but I am amazed to hear that the 
attendance was so poor that the club must lose some £200, 
What has come over the public, 1 wonder; dog shows used 
to be so popular, and now from all sides we hear of this falling 
off in patronage, 
Has perhaps the continual harping on hydrophobia in the’ 
apers had something to do withit? I this isso the public 
are curiously illogical, for there is less chance of being bitten 
by a mad dogin ashow of 1,300 dogs than there isin the 
street. Bench dogs have an average value of let us say £5, 
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that is putting it yery low, most of them come from fanciers’ 
kennels, and are accompanied by some of their mates, and the 
public may take it for granted that their cares and wants, 
sanitary arrangements, etc,, are in all cases more efficient 
than those of the nightly slim inhabitants of our great cities, 
What the respective creditto the fancier and the “parish” 
may be, I leave for discussion to more serious writers than 
myself. 
Most owners sce all their own dogs every day, or this is just 
as effectually carried out by a responsible keeper, and if one 
of his charges shows a change in his demeanor, is moping or 
refuses his food—‘‘There’s something the matter with Floss: 
kennel her by herself.” The dog's own value is considered 
and at once the safety of the rest of the kennel. I have never 
heard of the appearances of hydrophobia in a fanciers kennel 
that was not observed in its most early stage. In large hunt- 
ing kennels, I regret to record, that my raemory is against 
them, Some foreigners even reproach us with carrying atten- 
tion to our animals too far, and jeeringly recall to mind the 
caricature that appeared when times were so bad in the coal 
districts, of a gaunt-looking miner affectionately watching his 
bull pup drinking the milk, while the rest of the famished 
household look on with hungry eyes. HEyen in this scene a 
philosopher, deep as the brutality may appear, might illu- 
inate some fine trait of human nature concealed beneath 
the surface. 
Itis among gutter curs that hydrophobia breaks out, these 
wretched, ownerless, slinking creatures, that seem as friett- 
ened of a policeman as a street arab, I remember speaking to 
a large breeder on this subject, and he observed: “IT bucket 
more pups than most people rear, but I never give any away, 
because f found that people thought nothing and cared noth- 
ing for what cost them nothing; but if they pay a fiver for 
their pups, they will look after their money on four legs.” 
Lthink | could win a champion prize for wandering from 
my subject. I have brought myself a long way from the Crys- 
tal Palace. Of course fhe show was in the grounds under can- 
yas, the weather was made to order, all that was required 
was visitors. Isaw fewer ornaments of the fair sex than at 
previous gatherings. Of course Lady Lamb and Mrs. Merrick 
Hoare were present to see their pets were not neglected. 
Mr. Lort, the popular, complaisant, all-round judge, disap- 
pointed, so extra work was thrown on the others. There 
were one or two novices, among them Mr, Groom and Mr. 
Pirie, The first named looked happy when he saw the long 
line of boarhounds that had come to ask his opinion. I 
watched Mr, Pirie judging the collies, and though I can’t say 
he appeared to be enjoying himself, yet there was a quiet 
determination about the chiel of the North that said he meant 
to do hisindependent best; his own opinion was good enough 
for him whetherit pleased friends or foes, Of such stuff 
dogey men can feel proud to know their modern judges are 
made of, 
We have progressed in great strides since dog shows were 
treed from the beery patronage of Mr. Bung, but I don‘t des- 
pise those old fanciers who assembled Saturday nights at the 
“Spotted Dogs” and ‘‘Magpies” and in their sanded-floor rooms 
held their little shows on the deal table, and where the prizes 
were silver collars and pewter pots. They hold to present 
times a position analogous to the ‘‘original members” of a 
modern social club. Their judges were ‘“‘open to reason,” of 
course, which sometimes took the form of ‘'What'’ll you take?” 
and at others broken heads, 
They were succeeded by the skimpole type of judge, 
anxious to oblige everybody. These were generally born in 
the North; theirs were happy natures. As thev entered the 
ring their eyes would usually scan the exhibitors’ faces, while 
they hummed to themselves ‘‘Should auld acquaintance be 
forgot, and hever brought to min?’ Eh, well, aulres temps, 
autres maeurs—not that 1 can say the m@wrs are much im- 
proved. 
Mr. Shirley, as usual, was yer'y busy. How much the Ken- 
nel Clib owe to him they will only realize when he is gone. 
There was a Benetlict air about him. 
Mr. Ubiquitous Berrie was, as usual, judging half the show, 
“toujours Berrie,” the exhibitor sometimes sighs. [saw this 
toy-dog patriarch picnicking all by himselfon the fleeting 
sandwich and bilious sherry, with a tent peg for his seat, ‘‘to 
save time.” His “expenses” won't cost the show much. 
My. Stephen, as manager, satisfactorily accomplished his 
duties and without fuss; [ have seen other managers work as 
hard, but I have never seen one smoke more cigars. 
The novelty class this time was composed of the Chinese 
edible dogs, chow chows they call them, .If I had a kennel of 
them I should keopasharp look out for moon-faced tramips 
from the flowery land. Iread inthe papers that they have 
founded a Chinese sehool of cookery at the Health Exhibition 
in London. Would not the exhibitors and breeders hurry 
through the turnstille to see Mx. Francatelli Taunton in the 
spotless white of 4 cordon blew dishing up the ‘friend of man” 
for the degustation of Mesdemoiselles Phryne and Aspasia, 
Going through the benches at the Palace | was struck with 
the magnificent class of St. Bernards; mastiffs were also a 
grand lot. There was one serious slip in the judging in the 
bitch class (puppies), the second prize was 50 points better 
than the lucky recipient of premier honors. The report in the 
Gazette, which is the official organ of the Kennel Club, is 
written by the judges themselves, and I quite expected Mr. 
Sydney Turner would avail himself of the opportunity to ad- 
mit he had shpped; but he has excused himself, You know 
the proverb about ‘who excuses himself,” etc., but perhaps he 
is right; it would be rather weak, after all, to admit the 
blunder. , 
He has preferred to ‘face the music,” to use an expression 
employed by your epistolary correspondent, Mr. Beaufort 
Mason, 
This remark leads me to say I did not think much of our 
pointers in the open classes. Im fact, I believe a team could 
be chosen from your side of the streak that would walk away 
from us. 
Nor were the setters any better, and Mr. Fountleroy man- 
aged to “spot” the wrong ones with an exasperating consist- 
ency, Others may agree with his judgment in putting Sting 
over Sir Alister, I don’t. Sting is a beautiful lemon and white 
and a pure Laverack, which Sir Alister is not, and Sting also 
had the pull in condition, but everywhere else Sir Alister is 
first fiddle, ~* ‘ 
All Sir Alister’s pups bear a strong resemblance to their 
patrician sire; they generally mbherit his belton color and 
ticks. Two of his produce won first and second in the open 
class—Sir Colin Kendal, a lovely dog with excellent legs, and 
Sir Kent, rather the reverse in that particular, The winner, 
Prince Pred, by Hmperor, is also a grand setter. 
I was surprised not to see even a card over Mr, Salter’s 
pretty bitch, Mayic Lantern; she isa color rare nowadays, 
the liver belton, a little legey, but to leave her unnoticed was 
a mistake. The second prize, Dashing Rose, is 4 common 
bitch, and got her honor by a fluke. Another one left outin 
the cold, Bonnie Bell. a pure Laverack and good enough to 
have won. Lady Westmoreland is a nice bitch and nearly as 
good as Bonnie Bell. ; 
My old friend Boss IIT., deservedly added a bracket to his 
Warwick win, heis the best Clumber | have ever seen. The 
bulldogs were a sight to see, all celebreties were there, Mon- 
arch, Britomartis, Taurus, Big Ben, ete. Mr, A. H. Clarke 
spreadeagled the fox-terriers with his victorious little Result. 
The coming shows are Cardiff, Darlington and Tunbridge 
Wells, Birmingham, too, is buckling on her armor, she vill 
have to worl hard to maintain her ancient fame. All the 
might of the Kennel Club will heer aue bt into the field against 
her, There are some of us who think the club would do itself 
good to be more generous and less small-minded in this struggle 
against independent shows, LILLIBULERO, 
Lonpon, July 15, 1884, 
the tall greyhound belonging to the P 
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[Juny 31, 1884, 
THE DEERHOUND. 
iiditor Forest and Stream: 
Knowing the interest taken in the deerhound among many 
American gentlemen, and thinking it may save me several let- 
ters to American correspondents, as wéll as being interesting 
to some strangers, I venture to ask you to atford me thespace™ 
to describe the inmates of one of our most noted deerhound 
kennels, also for a few remarks I deem may be of interest to 
your readers concerning this beau ideal of a sporting dog, 
euarian and companion, Miss Hdrica dela Pole’s kennel of 
eerhounds, located at het fine ola place, Shute House near, Ax-~ 
minster, Devon, is likely to become our leading deerhound 
kennel, for, although Capt. G. A. Graham and H. Chaworth 
Musters, Esq., are still in the van, and Mr. Hickman won’t he 
kept back, Miss de la Poie has taken the matter up of breed- 
ing this superb variety with not only spirit and enthusiasm, 
but what is far better, judgment, and I may say skill. 
To commence with, Miss de la Pole secured Hector. In color 
he isa dark brindle, of great size, standing thirty-one inches 
at shoulder, and girthing thirty-five round the chest. Weight 
in ordinary condition about 112 pounds, but could be got up 
heavier for exhibition. He is a lengthy animal, with long tail, 
great bone, and capital smal] ears, with good, thick, hard coat. 
He has proved himself a sure and sucecsstul sire, his puppies 
coming out large, and some of greatexcelience. Not a big 
winner himself, but his stock haye been very successful on 
the show bench, Hecter has been used as a sire by most of 
the Wnglish breeders of deerhounds, and is highly spoken of 
by the veteran breeder, Capt. G Graham, in Shaw’s 
“Book of the Dog,” page 227, He was then the property of 
Mr, Dadley, head keeper to the Marquis of Bristol, and Capt. 
Graham states he is “good with deer and thoroughly well 
bred, probably the best bred dog now extant, Hector’s pedi- 
gree runs back in parts to about 1845, bub the strains were 
valued long previously, 
The second to command attention is Belle, a black brindle 
standing 2814 inches at shoulder, girthing 31 tnches, weight 85. 
pounds. She is rather short in body, but shows great quality. 
der coat is a trifle too soft and scanty, but she has proved 
herself a good breeder, and being own sisterand same litter as 
Capt. Graham’s Clutha, her blood is very valuable, Her pedi- 
gree is well traced out as far back as her great-great-grand 
parents. Among other prizes, she took first at Crystal Palace 
and second at Bristol shows in 1884. Her kennel companion 
Mee Merrilees has been parted with through being a daughter 
of Hector’s out of H. Chaworth Muster’s Glen; Miss de la Pole 
not caring to breed so closely. 
Leaving the older and turning to the younger portion of the 
kennel, we have Derrig, by Hector out of Belle, born October, 
1883,fawn colored and standing,now just eight months eld, 2844 
inches at shoulder and 303g round chest, weight 88 pounds, 
long in head, with a good forearm, dark eyesand lengthy body, 
very fast and active, but at present rather shy in disposition. 
If we could induce his owner to part with him, we would much 
like to send this promising puppy out to one of our American 
correspondents, as from his high breeding he cannot fail to 
prove a useful sire. Clover, sister and same litter to Derrig, 
is also afawn, standing 25 inches, girth 2815, with good fore- 
arm, though somewhat small, good in shape, swift and high 
couraged, Berger, by Cupples’s Bran out of a daughter of 
Hector’s, now nine months old, is a blue brindle, standing 2714 
inches, girthing 2944, weight 72 pounds, long in body and 
well made, high couraged and shows a lot of breeding. The 
two former are the last of old Hector’s get, except a litter 
whelped out of Los Angelos, and haye not yet been exhibited, 
but may be expected to make their mark eyentually, 
The kennels themselves occupy about an acre of ground, and 
are built in a circle, having a large yard, as well as a run for 
puppies in the center, Hach dog has a. separate compartment 
about six feeb square. In some the floors are brick, but others 
are better, being stone overlaid with tar to keep damp out. 
The benches all fold up and the kennels are washed out and 
then sawdusted daily. The dogs are healthy and distemper is 
a vomplete stranger, as it always should be, when dogs are 
kept properly clean, The keeper has been there sixteen years 
and would show the dogs to any callers I feel confident, 
although strangers should always write to the owner for per- 
inission to Inspect any Kennel, and this one is well worthy of 
attention, From the earliest age the puppies are accustomed 
to see railway traffic, Jead singly and in couples, face water 
and be stauneh on fur. I have now set forthsuch information 
as I think will be of interest and wish my notice could have 
been written before the large daughters of the high-bred, 
aristocratic-looking Belle had left and her giant dog puppy 
dispatched to a purchaser in Dundee. 
t will now give a short history and description of the 
breed, although I should advise all breeders of this yariety to 
read for themselves the chapters on the wolfhound and deer- 
hound, written by my friend, G A. Graham, for Shaw’s 
“Book of the Dogs,” published by Cassell & CGo., for however 
one-sided and faulty the work in other respects and portions, 
Capt. Graham’s essay is a useful historical compilation. 
The deerhound, like other good things claimed by Scotland 
cannot be considered indigenous to that country. The land of 
the shamrock, sweet Ireland, has the prior elaim, although 
the breed has been praised asa Celtic one by the poets of all 
ages. It was beloved by Scotland’s martial bard, who stands 
unrivalled yet in the way he played on our chords of feeling, 
and although Moore was silent on the subject, Hrin’s poets 
haye sung the fame of this breed, and Spencer has most touch- 
ingly described the greyhound Gelert of my countryman, 
Llewelyn, Prince in Wales. 
Pope and others have mentioned this noble animal, and Mrs. 
C. Phillips composed an elegant description of the Irish grey- 
hound in verse about the year 1660, when the breed was still 
common in Ireland. The Irish poets termed the dog eu, sig- 
nifying a champion. That eminent naturalist, Colonel Hamil- 
ton Smith, pointed out that the radical word khan and can in 
their acceptation of power, were evidently mixed up with 
the idea of a dog; and in ancient British, from cu, a dog, head 
or champion, we have the title cy nobelin and eu nobelin, the 
head king, The element khan and can is seenin Canute, I 
may be permitted to add that cean is the lrish and Scotch for 
head, and ctin is the Welsh for king, cean or hawn, cin, mean- 
ing the head king or sovereign over petty princes. All these 
words ate plainly derived from the Greek kuon, a dog, and 
the well-known term cur is plainly the same word in another 
form. Many writers have heen fogged and confused over the 
rough Celtic greyhound, from the various terms or names 
it has borne owing to the work it was kept for. The proper 
classical name forthe greyhound was vertraba, as used by 
Gratius; and the same word in the Gallic was vertaygus, which 
has been preseryed to us through the writings of Martial. This 
name is seemingly derived from the verb verto, to turn, from 
the manner of pursuit peculiar to this group. The Latins used 
the term agasceus (muchas we now use the German word 
hound), to denote a hunting dog of any breed, the word seem- 
ingly being derived from the Greel word ago, or in its older 
form agago, meaning to fetch, drive, bring or carry. We find 
the word used substantively by Livy and Plamtus, the latter 
using agaso to denote ‘a driver of beasts,” and again we find 
Horace speaking of the dog, using the word in its verbal form 
in his Hpodes (Ode VL, line 7) agam—I will drive. I have en- 
tered thus minutely into the meaning of the term agaswus as 
many writers, overlooking its palpable meaning—simply a 
hunting dog—haye fallen into the error of assigning it as a 
name for a particular breed. The greyhound belonged to the 
Pedibus celeres group, of Roman writers, the ancients naming 
the various breeds of dogs penerally from the locality they 
came from, or the use they were put to, The true rough grey- 
hound, however, has always been considered of Celtic origin, 
and that it hunted by sight and not by nose. Strabo mentions 
ctish and Celtienations, 
Pliny relates an account of a fightin which the Ivish grey- 
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