half a dozen men can 
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vidual with another jud 2 
e found who think that as a result of 
that treatment ‘‘little is left?’ of Mr. John Davidson, such a 
half dozen will probably indicate the strength of the “ring.” 
Now that Mr, Mason’s attention has been called to the un- 
founded nature of hisimputation upon the independence of 
bench show judges in this country, as a class, we believe that 
he will recognize the fallacy of his impressions of bench show 
judging in America, 
EASTERN FIELD TRIALS. 
HE entries for the Members’ and All-Aged Stakes of the 
Eastern Field Trials Clb closed yesterday. Mr. Coster, 
the secretary, informs us that the entries have come in nicely. 
We hope to be able to cee a complete list next week. Messrs, 
D, C. Bergundthal, Indianapolis, ind.; Luther Adams, Boston, 
Mags., and Theodore Mortord, Newton, N. J., have kindly 
consented to act as judges. ‘The club has been very fortunate 
in securing the services of these well-kaown gentlemen, All 
of them have very acceptably performed the duties of the 
position before, and need no introduction to our readers. 
NEW YORK NON-SPORTING SHOW. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Please state in this week’s paper that owing to the impossi- 
bility of Dr. Downey being able to get to New York, Mr. 
James Mortimer will judge the sheepdog classes; also state 
that the classes for deerhounds will be judged by Mr. Peirson. 
The following railroad companies have agreed to carry dogs 
free of charge to and from the exhibition, when they are 
accompanied by their owners or caretakers who hold first 
class tickets: The New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, 
Philadeiphia & Reading, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, 
Long Island, Boston & Lowell, New York & New England, 
with oter roads to hear from, All the express companies will 
carry dogs to the show on the payment of their usual rates, 
and return the same free. 
The entries close on October 6, and the club hopes to meet 
with a liberal entry, in order to make the first show of the 
kind a success. - CHaAs, LINCOLN, Supt. 
P, O. Box 1,812. 
THE ORIGIN OF THE DEERHOUND. 
| | NDER the heading ‘Importing Dogs from Hngland,” I 
have read a letter in FOREST AND STREAM signed M. B. 
, with much of which I agree, but I was somewhat as- 
tonished to find Mr, Wynn writing an articls on deerhounds, 
as | always regarded his specialty to be the mastiff, and on 
the latter breed he can write well, possessing as he does a very 
extended knowledge of the miastiff, and | believe he is presi- 
dent of the Mastiff Club in England, if confess that though 
knowing a few famous breeders and owners of the deerhound 
I never came across the name of Miss De la Pole, nor that of 
the Harl of Mar as famed breeders. I like to read articles.on 
dogs which are written by gentlemen who can call themselves 
fellow countrymen of the breeds they write upon, but it has 
been for years the custom of English breeders of and dealers 
in dogs to ignore both scotch and Irish sportsmen, even when 
writing on their own native breeds, For instance, look at 
Idstone of the London Field boasting that he had given to 
Scotland an improved breed of black and tan setters, Another 
Englishman arrogates to himself the improvement of the col- 
lie, and another, with no less assurance, claime bringing the 
Dandie Dinmont terrier to his present high state of periection. 
Lcould extend thelist, but cui bono? Now sporting Scoteh- 
mep “can look and laugh at a’ that,” but we are always grate- 
ful for small meicies, and if Mr, Wynn can bring our gallant 
hound more prominently to the front I shall be pleased. I 
shall lay before the readers of FOREST AND STREAM afew facts’ 
relative to those I know, who are moe distinguished than 
the Earl of Mar or Mr. Wynn’s ‘fair unknown” as breeders, 
and shall be pleased to give privately to readers of this paper 
all the information I can relative tosuch breeders. Captam 
Graham, mentioned by Mr, Wynn, residing in England, is to 
be ciassed as the very highest authority on deerhounds. Cap- 
tain Morrison, residing at Greenock in Scotland, can give 
opinions worth haying, and his Grace the Duke of Suther- 
land. has in his kennels sume very grand animals, General 
McDonald of Kinnloch Rannoch, in Perthshire, might be con- 
sulted with advantage on the breed, also the Duke of Athol 
and the Marquis of Breadalban. Any of these I haye men- 
tioned are notto be placed in juxtaposition with the Earl of 
Mar. Has Mr. Wynn, like myself, traveled knapsack on back 
and visited all the kennels in the bonny highlands of Scotland 
in search of information regarding this famous breed; if he 
has, then [can say his informationis very meagre, but I am 
not wishing to find too much fault with the racy and estimable 
writer on the mastiff. 
To excite speculation and research among the readers of 
this paper, I should like to know what they think of my theory 
regarding the origin of the greyhound or deerhound in Great 
Britain. I feel that some will call me both a fool and a here- 
tic, but still what I haye to state may be worth a little con- 
sideration. Jt is a well-known fact that Hyrim’s ships brought 
the peafowl and our progenitor, the ape, to King Solomon, 
fiom India. and I think there can be no doubt about these 
ships visiting the Persian Gulf, and 1 think we may entertain 
the idea that the Persian greyhound was also introduced at 
this time into the land of Judea. Solomon, speaking of the 
greyhound, asks, “What is more comely iu going?’ and speaks 
of his ‘‘girt loins,” as 1eferring to the habit of the ancient mes- 
sengers girding up their garments when tabbing rena y. to run, 
Solomon’s description of the greyhound holds true to the 
present day. Now, how did the greyhound get to Britain? I 
should suppose that the Phcenicians, who were great traders 
all along the Levant, first brought the breed, for they traded 
to England and Wales for tin, and there is little doubt but 
what they visited Ireland in their many excursions, and we 
can imagine that, seeing the now extinct Irish deer, they would 
import some of the large breeds which they were in the habit 
of Seeing round the coasts of Asia Minor for the p se of the 
chase. Can I stretch a little more and say that these iock- 
caring dogs resembled our noble mastiff in many respects, and 
is our present mastiff simply a dog ‘‘fmed down” from the 
ancient magnificent dogs of Albania and Asia Minor! Who 
shall decide? If this is admitted I think it would he a perfect 
logical deduction to assume that the Irish kerns crossed the 
greyhound and mastiit and hence the produce, the Trish wolf or 
eer honnd, which has so degenerated in latter yearsin Ireland 
aud Scotland. Now, be it understood, Ido not intend to de- 
_ bate this speculative theory with any of the able writers in 
our paper, but if any of the points raised are worth any con- 
sideration I fesl sure our editor will give all due consideration 
to the opinions of bis correspondents. 
Fi oissart, writing of Count De Foix, says he had 600 dogs, 
and the said count wrote a book on hunting, and died in 131; 
has any of our readers seen such book? 1 think it could 
throw some light on this subject. Payepes in his ‘‘Pennyless 
Pilzrimaze of tae Monsyless Perambulations,” thus writes in 
March, 1618, and if his article be as amusing to readers of 
gee AND STREAM as it has been to me TI shall feel very 
eased: 
E “My good Lord Mar haying put me into highland shape, I 
rode with him from his house, where I saw the ruins of an wld 
castle called Kindroghit. It was buult by Malcolms Canmore 
for a hunting house, who Fnac in Scotland when Edward 
the Coniessor, Harold and Norman William reigned in Eng- 
land. Ispeak of it because it was the last house that I saw in 
those parts, for I was the span of 12 days atter before I saw 
either house, cornfield or habitation of a creature, but deer, 
wild horses, wolves and such lise creatures, which made me 
doubt that I should ever see houses again. Thus the first da 
we traveled eight miles which there were small cottages built 
Se 
6 who did not knuckle down. 1! 
on purpose to lodge in, which they call ‘Lauquhards.’ I 
think my good Lord Erskine, he commanded that I should 
always be lodged in his lodging, the kitchen being always on 
the side of a bank, many kettles and pots boiling and many 
spits turning and with great variety of cheers, as venison, 
baked, sodden, roast and stewed, beef, mutton, goats, kids, 
hares, fresh salmon, pigeons, hens, capons, chickens, partridge, 
moorceots, heathcocks, caperkellies and termagants, good ale, 
sack, white wine, clarets, most potent aqua vita, all these and 
more we had in superfluous abundance, caught by falconers, 
fowlers, fishers, and brought by my Lord’s tenants and pur- 
veyors to victual our caimp, which consisted of fifteen or six- 
teen men and horses. 
“The manner of the hunting is this—tive or six hundred men 
do rise early in the morning and they do dispeise themselves 
divers wavs, and seven, eight or ten miles compass, they do 
oe or chase in the deer in many herds, two, three or four 
hundred in a herd, to such or such a place as the noblemen 
may appoint them, then when the day is come the lords and 
gentlemen of their companies do ride or go to the said places, 
sometimes waiding up to the middle through burns and rivers 
and then they being come to the place, do lie down till those 
ferocious scouts which are called the Tinkhell, do bring down 
the deer, so those Tinkhell men do lick their own fingures, for 
besides their bows and arrows which they carry with them, 
we can hear, here and there, a harquebus or a musket go off, 
which they seldom discharge in vain, Thereafter we had 
stayed there three hours or thereabouts we might perceive the 
deer appear on the hills round about us (the heads making a 
show like a wood), which, being followed by the Tinkhell, are 
chased down into the yalley where we lie, then all the valley 
on each side being waylaid with a hundred couple of strong 
lvish greyhounds they are let loose, as occasion serves, upon 
the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks and 
daggers in the space of two hours four score fat deer were 
slain which after are disposed of, some one way, some another, 
twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough for us left for 
us to make merry at our rendezvous.” 
I thiak the aboye will interest those who have not seen it 
before and I can only remark that I should like to have seen 
the charge of somany dogs. It seems the battues in those 
days were done on a grand scale, quite different from the 
pheasant ones of to-day, Such sports inured onr countrymen 
to dangers and haidships and proved the best means for 
making them the fcarless warriors they were, and when we 
think of them ‘‘we closer cling to Tartan plaids,” 
A ScorrisH LANCE. 
ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 
XIY. 
I HAVE had forwarded to me by the editors a very pleas- 
ant reading letter from Mr. Ashburner. Sorne parts of it 
I will reply to privately when I have time. which is not likely 
to be often now that the “glorious first” of September has 
come, Mr. Ashburner, I see from American sporting organs, 
is making himself a name inthe annals of doggydom by his 
fee oN, efforts to popularize in the new country our old 
mglish beagles. There is a freemasonry among doggy men 
that should draw our fanciers and yours together. I hope Mr, 
Ashburner will succeed in getting some of our best, the parent 
stock will remain in the old country. J should be very glad 
to advise my American fellow sportsmen on the best sou ces 
to buy, but thatis ticklish ground. The doggy community is 
such # warm one that however big a fool I may know myself 
to be, 1 scarcely dare rush in where even angels would get 
their purity besmirched. Some of this trade I know to be al- 
ready in the hands of Mr, Carew Gibson, and as he appears to 
give his attention to the subject, I don’t see why he shouldn’t 
suit; allthatis necessary is that he must be careful with his 
pedigrees, accurate in describing his wares, mentioning their 
aults with their merits, and moderate in his charges, I am 
constrained to admit the specimens of his kennel that I have 
seen exhibited were below my ideas. They were clumsy. bad 
specimens of a cast-off southern type. Whenever any of my 
readers are about to treat with men they know nothing about 
Ishould advise them to drop a line tothe Secretary of the 
Eennel Club who, I am confident, would furnish any informa- 
tion he might possess in reply to courteous inquirers, 
Mr. Ashburner and his friends will be on the right track if 
they can buy up allthe type and strain of Freeland Countess 
and Freeland Dutchess. ‘They are the best couple I have seen 
for many a day. And over and above their looks, they have 
a pedigree including such names as Mr, White, the Homewood 
beagles, Christ Church, Horsfall, ete. 
I notice in this week's Field that the very uniform and good- 
looking pack got together by one of the younz Gilbeys (of 
wine-trade fame) isfor sale, They are almost harriers, run- 
ning seventeen inches, but a nice lot all the same. 
r. Ashburner has kindly sent me copies of the rules of the 
American English Beagle Club, and their code of points for 
judging the little hound, I must very sincerely compliment 
the authors of the code upon their accurate description of the 
dog, and their lucid and graphic explanations of the points. 
I have seen most of the similar productions drawn up by the 
leading men in our specialist clubs, the St. Bernard code is 
among the best, but for a clear intelligible definition of a 
breed, the American club takes the—what? palm, cake, kettle, 
no horn! 
One praiseworthy part of the object of the club, I see, is to 
get a class at their shows for ‘‘basket or foot beagles under 
twelve inches.” I should have called them ‘pocket or rabbit 
beagles,” as better expressing the diminutive and in keeping 
with the old formulas. The rules are drawn up with such 
military preciseness that I pity the poor secretary whose duty 
it will be to watch over their entirety. The rule in reference 
to defaulting subscribers is properly severe. Over here I ani 
told it is a terrible game to get men 10 pay up, and those 
delinquents are the very ones who writs bullying letters to the 
Hon. Treasurer, wanting to know ‘‘why a prize wasnot given 
by the club at this or that show.” 
I am glad not to be able to find anything about the neces- 
sary qualification for membership, That is a tender point in 
this country, and the specialist clubs have many miserable 
CE ters of hours in trying the question. Most of them draw 
the line at professional! deaiers, In the main I agree with this, 
because after all the club is supposed to exist forthe benelit 
of the breed more than for its members. And it is quite cer- 
tain that if professional dealers were admitted they wouid 
tmnake their membership serve business ends. 
“But is not this done,” asks the rebuffed community, ‘‘by 
the gentlemen breeders and amateur dealers.” Ah, well! yes, 
perhaps, but look here!” 
“Tf you dells me no quesdions, I asks you no lies!” 
That is what Hans Breitmann replied when asked ‘‘how 
Brovidence plessed him mit tea pods und shpoons,” and that 
ismy reply tor thepresent. Some othertime, perhaps when my 
“pen glides less smoothly and the ink sits thick, I will tell you 
about t#® doggy Esquires, who advertise from club addresses, 
about the gentleman that sells and judges, while the purchaser 
lives still in his memory, about the exhibitor who judges and 
favors the sisters, the cousins and the aunts of his own stud 
dog. but wait a bit. 
One of your Beagle Club’s rulesis that the executive com- 
mitte ‘‘shall receive and take charge of all gifts of books, pic- 
tures, or works of art, specimens of natural histcry,” ete, Yes, 
but unless the club has premises of its own, whose rooms are 
thé said “books, pictures,” ete,, ta ornament? It isa very gen- 
eral recret here that the specialist clubs have not their own 
quarters, Only one or two of the wealthiest can even con- 
template such 4 step. When the subject was first mooted, a, 
single room was thought of, to hold the club’s belongings, for 
meetings, etc. The idea grew and began to shape itself into 
the project of taking a small house and subletting the separate 
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rooms to ney clubs, and have one or two large general 
rooms. These parts were to be blended into a whole, and I 
eyen heard one year in Birmingham that a name for the united 
clubs had been selected—"'The Kennel Council.” Hach spécial- 
ist club was to supply two members to the committee of the 
Council, The plan was good, it looked feasible, and had it 
ever come to a head a very powerful and representative goy- 
erning kennel body would have arisen, and the solution to the 
Kennel Club would have been found. 
But the Kennel Club sniffed the danger trom afar, and by 
an ingenious ruse tumbled down the fabric that had risen so 
hich in men’s imagination. ‘“What do you want, Boag people?” 
asked the cunning Mr. Stephens, who saw his club, post and 
pay in danger; “rooms to hold your meetings in, won’t our 
ailor do? You can walk into our ‘parlor that is up a wind- 
ing stair,’ but that even the meagrest qualifications will en- 
able you to ascend, you want to have a yoice in the direction 
of kennel] affairs, hum, er, yes; of course you do. and so you 
shall. You shall become associates of the Kennel Club, and 
twice a year you shall be summoned in general meeting to its 
councils, when it shall be permitted to you to cry ‘Hear! 
hear!’ and clap your hands. On attending these meetings as- 
sociates will be required to provide themselves with a small 
piece of camphor, which they shall carry in their pockets, 
and they shall also wash themselves with carbolic soap, which 
the club will supply in their wash-house. Associates shall not 
shake hands with ‘members,’ nor drink with them except at 
the formers’ expense, but if a ‘member’ should require to 
borrow a fiver it would be considered a sign of bad breeding 
to refuse. On these occasions members will, if they choose, 
appear in the club uniform, the associates will wear their club 
livery. When the members dine the associates will wait. It 
is optional if livery be worn in shows held under Kennel Club 
rules, but when this is not done associates will be careful to 
express demission in their countenances. Tor all those priv- 
Ueges, social and practical, each associate must contribute 
one guinea to the funds of the club.” And, wonderful to relate, 
the specialist clubs, or some of them, walked into the parlor, 
but [ don’t often see notices of their using it. The Kenne 
Club’s scheme is affiliation, which nieans guineas and authority 
for themselyes and restraint and abneration for the others. 
I suppose the ‘‘specimens of natural history” alluded to 
tmeans stuffed dogs. Have you, reader, ever hada dog stuft d? 
Ihave. When the old favorite died some said, skin her; I 
couldn't do that, it seemed irreverent, but I forwarded the 
carcass to our best taxidermist. It certainly was a fox-terrier 
that came home but not my fox-terrier, it was enybody’s fox- 
terrier and a very fair specimen, but not my Nell. There is no 
expression in a stuffed face, that’s why stufing pet dogs will 
always bea grievous failure. Toits owner there is more ex- 
pression in a dog’s face than he sees in the physiognomy of 
many of his friends. No, a good photograph is the best 
souvenir, so bury your pet decently like a Christian for it has 
done you less harm than most of your Christian comrades. give 
it a corner of your garden, and put a plate on the wall record- 
ing simply the dates of its birth and death. 
‘Three ladies were poisoned at Rugely through eating tinned 
salmon. Jam glad to say they got over it, but I read with 
amazement in the report of the case that the medical man who 
was called in requested that some of the salmon should be 
given to a dog,*'who, however, refused to eatit.” That is cool, 
why should it be given toa dog? At all events, itis gratifying 
to read that the dumb animal had more sense than the three 
ladies, Butit is the doctor’s coolness I can’t get over, I su 
pose he thought it would be a pity to waste the sa!mon, so he 
tried to kill a dog with it. 
Judging from whatI hear and read I conclude that Mr. 
Charles H. Mason has succeeded in getting himself disliked in 
some quarters. [have made very diligent inquiries this side 
of the pond and hear of notuing (o his disadvantage. That 
he is quite able to take care of No. 1 I gather from his letters, 
and as for the “boycotting” threatened by a Chicago sporting: 
paper, that is all fiddlededee. He may have madea few faw: 
pas in his late campaign—I don’t know whether he has—but 
certainly he has done nothing to merit the violent forms of 
intimidation I have lately perused. 
Mr. James Watson’s letter in our papers about your Phila- 
delphia and New York shows iniicates that you are going 
ahead in dog affairs. I should not be surprised if a few Eng- 
lish exhibitors were to make the trip. The prospect of enjoy~ 
ing themselves is a good one, 
In Mr. James Watson, the secretary of the Philadelphia 
show, you possess a gentleman whose depa! ture from England 
was a loss tothe kennel world. To an intimate and intelli- 
gent knowledge of all British breeds he unites a character 
that has no price and a pen that has no equal when its subject 
is the clearing up of knotty kennel points or planning out the 
details of a dog show. 
At last the wearisome aero ay on the Lochinvar 
afiair has been closed by the editor of the Shooting T' mes. 
What Mr. Murchison’s feelings aie [don’t Know; what the 
Kennel Club think of the matter it would be more interesting 
to learn. Mr. Murchison has been tried and condemned pub- 
licly by two editors, The Stock-keeper dismissed Mir. Murchi- 
son with disgust on account of his insulting lanpuage, the 
Shooting Times, in their anxiety to give him fair play, were 
less nice. An article on the case appears in the latter journal, 
the purport of which is that Mr. Murchison remains “as he 
was,” viz,, charged and convicted of the ‘di)tiest trick” (to 
quote Sir William Harcourt) that has ever been brought home 
to aman in or out of the Kennel Club. Heis proyed to haye 
been aided and abetted in the job by Messrs, Percy, Reid aud 
Longmore (members of the Kennel Club), and by the manager 
and the secretary of the show. Itis extraordmary how easily 
the kennel world lets down their offenders. They seem to 
have a code of morals for themselves, by-lawsI might cau 
them, Had a manin a public, not doggy matter, sat in judg- 
ment, acted as counsel, and assisted in the verdict on a ques- 
tion where his own conductin part was on trial, the press 
would have slashed him bacs into obscure private hfe; but in 
the dog world they shrug their shoulders because many of 
them have better preserved specimens in their own cupboards. 
According to one of the correspondents’ description, Mr. Long- 
more seems to have behaved with the inflatea impertinence of 
a boorish provincial. Mr. Murchison’s letters were virulent 
beyond patience, but the editor of the Shooting Times was 
most considerate, and humored him. Old age isa privilege, 
but it is one that should not be carriedtoofar. Mr. Joachim’s 
letters were marked by a lucid coolness that the consciousness 
of a good case inspires, I thought Mr. Krehl] was at great 
ains over a small matter, and they might just as well have 
eft him alone, for he sent their charge fl) ing in all directions, 
and several of them must have got hit. One of the correspon- 
dents, a most amusing cuss, calling bimself ‘‘Whipper In” 
(are his initials H. C., I wonder), compared Mr. Murchison to 
an old fish in a muddy pool, ‘The thought was a happy one, 
the case was ‘‘tishy,” and the longer it was kept up the more 
unpleasant it became. People are wondering what is to be 
the next excitement. Whose character shall we now throw 
to the pack? 
People have become reconciled to the Kennel Club’s shilling 
impost for registration, on account of the adyantages that 
could not be denied, Registration in some form is most neces- 
sary, and the clubis pretty particular in not allowing, pur- 
posely, similar numes to be adopted. and this makes al! won- 
der how they carne to let the Silver Enmng matter slip through. 
There are two St. Bernards registered, one Silyer King and 
the other The Silyer King, Both the owners have expressed 
their indignation in print at each other’s deceit, aud of course 
each maintains that he is the real simon Pure, ; 
*“Corsincon” (Mr. Hugh Dalziel) has brought his fist down 
on Mr, D. Frank, whom I mentioned in a former letter. He 
states that he is a Mr. D. ¥. Lambaci, and accuses him of 
writing up his Leonberger, Rascal, in the press a week before 
