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returned tothe woods. The three to the Hehe bein 
open, we followed them, and in five minutes 
were very much li 
sprin 
birds, making in allthree. Not a large bag, certainly, Still 
I neyer enjoyed a day more thoroughly than I did ‘Thanks- 
giving. CHIK. 
A PROPOSED LINCOLN FUND. 
E understand that the family of the late Charles cow 
or 
Tt is pro- 
posed by some of Mr. Lincoln’s friends to raise by supseription 
fund for the 
benefit of these children. The members of the Westminster 
Kennel Club are the movers in the scheme, and this is an en- 
tirely sufficient guarantee of the proper management of the 
fund. The object is a worthy one, and taking intoaccount the 
services rendered by Mr. Lincoln to dog shows, and remem- 
hering the multitude of friends he had, there is no reason to 
doubt that the necessary amount can be raised. We will 
cheerfully receive such sums as may be sent for the purpose 
and transmit them to the committee of the Westminster Ken- 
are in needy circumstances. No means were left 
them support. There are four children, daughters, 
a sum of money sufficient to constitute a trust 
nel Club, 
JUDGING COLLIES. . 
Hditor Forest and Stream: 
In looking over the back numbers of Forust Aanp STREAM 
oenmy return from England, [ observe Mr. Grenyille Hars- 
ton’s letter, in which he searifies the unfortunate judges who 
failed to think as highly of his dogs as he did himself, Mr. 
Harston makes the grieyous blunder inmy case of giving 
reasons for my incompetency, regardless of the maxim to give 
he had simply said I did not 
know a collie and left it, I should have passed it over, but he 
goes further, and I quote; ‘‘Mr. Watson, although painstak- 
, knowing the long-haired Highland collie, knows not the 
collie of the Cheviot Hills, Cumberland, etc., and Southern 
England, his knowledge being from books of ‘Stonehenge,’ so 
must only be See and therefore his decisions must fol- 
ooks. 
opinions without reasons. 
ins 
low his picture 
Allow metoinform Mr. Harston that I never was in the 
Highlands since I was carried therein my mother’s arms many 
long years ago, and ata time I could not tell acollie from a 
That my schoolboy days were spent within the sight of 
the Cheviot Hills, and after that I lived in the South of Bng- 
land, excepting a brief interval in South Wales and a year at 
That I never read “Stonehenge” on the callie, 
I have a copy of his book taken for a bad debt. but have only 
Probably [read Vero Shaw on 
the collie, as the parts sometimes came to me forreview. I 
am not going to make Mr, Harston’s mistake of saying where 
I got my knowledge, but be it little or great, I have yet to see 
such dogs as Mr. Harston shows and calls Cheyiot collies re- 
cognized in the show ring in a cullie class. Mr, Harston should 
recall what he told me himself respecting these dogs hefore I 
cow, 
Manchester. 
dipped in it here and there. 
began judging collies at Toronto last spring. 
Would it be asking too much of Mr. Harston to tell us who 
Mr, Stanly Thompson is and what he has developed as the re- 
sult of his practical experience. I have not got at my stud hooks 
yet to see howmany winners we owe to Mr. Stanly Thomp- 
son, but certainly I cannot recall his name, lamentably ignor- 
ant and forgetful as | may show myself to be by such an ad- 
mission, 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, Dec, 8. 
JAS. WATSON, 
ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 
XIx,—(CONCLUDED), 
OU have no idea what a vain old fool is this ““Lillibulero,” 
he is as sensitive to praise and blame as a school girl in 
spite of the bold front it costs him so much to occasionally 
This confession arises out of a flattering letter full of 
as many sweet things as a southern city in carnival time, that 
“You do me 
proud,” Doctor and I thank you for the I seta so frankly ex- 
your noble profession 
and your traveled greeting reads cheerily, ‘‘T salute you, ‘Lilli- 
bulero,’ and may your facile pen continue to brighten the 
pages of the FoREST AND STREAM.” As it contains matters 
of interest. my readers will gain by my public reply and Dr, 
Twaddell I will ask to excuse my not answering his letter 
One is that there are a lot of 
uman moles blindly groping about in a naturally underland 
way to discover the writers of these notes and I am anxious 
to give them no clews; I have all confidence in my corres- 
pondent’s discretion, but uccidents will happen, you know. 
Another reason is that your dealers in defamation and ours are 
groping for hints to describe these notes as the fortnightly 
circular of a dog exporting firm, “Lillibulero & Co.” un- 
shall be told outright in 
hen I “know a good thing” 
1 will not cable it under cover like a Newmarket tout, but you 
shall all know it and my tips will be in the right direction, 
assume, 
T have received from Dr. L. Henry Twaddell. 
pressed, you have the winning tongue o 
rivately for several reasons. 
limited. Hence all I have to sa 
broad columns and bold type. 
giving, not receiving. 
But I hope my American friends will continue to gratify me 
: : A my 
editors and they will be sure of attention, and perhaps one 
day the Doctor's servant will stand half amusedly, half 
wonderingly, blocking the passage to a visitor who has given 
with communications of interest directed to the care o 
his name as ‘* *Lillibulero’ from the old countree.” 
The Doctor tells me he was at first mclined to think my com- 
ments (2d of October) on the beagle elub’s code a “bit of 
my hearty approval, to 
which I am now able to add congratulations to their author, 
I have already gathered from these columns that a definition 
minute and exhaustive was wanting to clear away misconcep- 
tions on the type of hound that can be correctly called a 
kindly satire,” but they expresse 
beagle. 
Does the American Beagle Club though admit the claims of 
the so-called ‘“bench-legged” beagles? [am sorry if I must 
tread upon somebody’s corns when Isay—I hope not. There 
my eye, and that is 
“straight” and firm. Leould stand no other; and further, in 
choosing young hounds I should exhibit a preference for those 
whose toes showed just an inclination to turn in, thatisa 
Sure sign of pace in a hound, and those of my readers who 
haye been out with some of our famous packs will remember 
is only one shape of the foreleg that fi 
what I mean. 
To me an “‘officer-toed” beagle is an abomination. 
worked up with terrier crosses. 
‘The Doctor tells me American doggy men are becoming 
weary of the one string that English writers have gotso many 
Beod tunes from, and it was this conviction, forced upon me 
long ago, that decided my tryingafew newairs. I yield to 
nobody in my admiration of our glorious setters and staunch. 
ointers, and to discourse on their beauties is a labor of love; 
aper are a wide constituency, and I wish 
but the readers of a 
to have a ward 
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in the 
ex nailed one. 
The bird flushed wild before I came up, but by this time I had 
recovered myself, and killed at a good distance. After this 
we had some splendid ae with the remaining two birds. They 
ke the snipe which the man hunted all one 
e ex performed his part wonderfully well, not a flush 
or a false point all day. Hyentually we secured these two 
Nature 
has supplied the wants of the sportsmen who require a heavy, 
lumbering little hound with the bassets, who always make 
me laugh when I ses them gravely squatting on their benches 
in most approved ‘‘first position of dancing.” I think their 
solemn, wrinkled taces and long ears, that look like a judge’s 
wig, and their crooked legs and large paws a most mirth-stir- 
ring combination. I believe that a long time ago beagles and 
bassets Were very close relations. Iam quite conyinced that 
our modern fox-terrier was produced from beagle material 
ar ie 
_ Like myself, or. Twadell seems to bea loyer of more ani 
mals than dogs. A man who hasan eye fora good Jersey 
heifer, possesses the tastes to educate his judgment on dogs 
or horses, I donot wonder that an originator of an ‘‘Herd 
Book” grappled successfully with the pointsof adog. The 
Doctor tells me he visited the Channel [s'andsin pursuit of 
his cattle hobby. I wasin St. Heliers, but a very long time 
ago. I seateanioar making the acquaintance, in St. Aubyn’s 
Bay, of some very amiable bloodhounds who good-naturedly 
accepted my infantile company, and regularly completed my 
matutinal toilet by licking my hands and face when I came 
down fresh from the soap suds for a romp before breakfast. 
This friendly, well-intended practice led to a very serious re- 
sult, Wheninatemper 1 used to bite my lips till they bled, 
and they were in this condition one morning when the hounds, 
who had probably made a meal of some canine delicacy of an 
“offal” description, gave me their usual, ‘‘How are you, old 
chap,” The consequence was a poisoned lip that gave great 
concern to my anxious parents, and proportionate delight to 
relations of my own age, who were jealous of my four-footed 
playmates, and therefore rejoicedin my paintul disfigurement. 
I waslately shown a humorous letter from a native of the 
Islands. He was trying to get a good dog for a companion, 
and like many othersignorant on this point, thought all the 
good dogs of a breed must necessarily be entered in the ‘‘Ken- 
nel Club Stud Book,” but he gave a better reason than I have 
usually heard from the uninitiated. He wrote: ‘I should 
rather like to have a dog possessed of this canine order of 
knighthood, for then if I caught a boy throwing stones at him 
I could ask him if he knew that dog was a K, C, 8. B. he was 
throwing at, and he would think that was something terrible.” 
RUNAWAYS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have a fox-terrier six months old. He was presented to 
me about three weeks ago, and I let him have the run of my 
house. He seems tobe very fond of my children, taking 
every opportunity of getting on the bed with them at night 
and lying down with them during the day; but as soon as a 
door is open away he goes down the street, If we call him 
he quickens his pace. The only way we can catch him is to 
wait forhim to stop and then come up to him slyly or depend 
on some passer by to catch him. He isa finely bred dog, and 
I would liketo keep him; but I cannot take him outin the 
street unless on a lead for fear of losing him. In tha house he 
is very sluggish in coming when called, sometimes paying no 
attention; but when in the street on a lead is full of life and 
energy, tugging on the line almost all the time, 
Now can you tell me how to teach him to come when called, 
and cure him of running away at every opportunity? I am 
sure every one in my house is kind to him. PERPLEXED. 
(it will give you some little trouble and take some time and 
patience to cure your dog of his very bad habit, but it can be 
done. Begin by stopping his food. Then, when he is pretty 
hungry, take a bit of food and call him by name, at the same 
time showing him what you hold in your hand. When he ruus 
to you do not give him the food at once, but pat him and call 
him good dog for a few seconds, and then let him eatit. In 
a few moments repeat this or let some one else doit. Lethim 
have his food only in this way for a week or two, and let him 
understand that he must comeor go hungry, and you will 
find, we think, that he willsoon form the habit of always 
coming at call, While you are practicing this you should only 
take him on the street with a l@ad, but after he has got so he 
comes pretty well, take him out when he is hungry, and call- 
ing him to you now and then, reward him with a bit of bread 
or cracker. This method of teaching a doz to come is better 
on many accounts than the more common one by the use of 
the long cord, You will find it convenient sometimes to have 
your dog walk at heel at command, and can teach him to do 
so by the method recommended by Hammond in his “Train- 
ing vs. Breaking, page 28. - 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
[have a red Irish setter who has a mania for running away, 
andisso good-natured, that it seems asif he would always 
Temaina puppy. Can you tell meot any way, aside from 
keeping him chained all his life, that will keep him at home’ 
and make him a better watch dog? In all the booksI have 
read on dogs, not one ever mentioned a way of breaking a doz 
from running with other people.—J. S. M. 
FOOD FOR DOGS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have been reading, with much interest, some recent arti- 
cles by Dr, Billings, especially in reference to the question of 
the proper food for dogs. While, as a matter of course, I 
agree with the author that dogs are carnivorous from a theo- 
retical point of view, it seems to me that there are some prac- 
tical facts to be taken into consideration before accepting the 
conclusion at which he arrived, 7. ¢., that they should be fed 
entirely on meat, and chiefly on raw meat. In the first place, 
a dog in a domesticated condition is under very different 
influences than one who is wild and in a state of nature. 
What his method of life would be under the latter circum- 
stances is shown to us by the study of the habits, etc., of his 
relative, the wolf. He would probably not get a full meal 
oftener than eyery other day or so, and never except after a 
Jong and arduous chase, at the end of which he would gorge 
himself to repletion, To be thoroughly consistent, then, in 
following nature, we should feed our dogs at irregular inter- 
vals, only three or four times a week, and giye them all the 
Taw meat they can eat, but also we should see that they get 
runs, and are kept moving about out doors most of the time, 
It is this very matter of exercise thatis the great difficulty 
the dog owner has to contend against. In the case of sporting 
dogs during the season, it is easy, and for one who goes into 
the matter on a large seale, and has trainers and helpers it can 
also be provided for, but the individual who keeps a dog or 
two, and does net ride or drive cannot possibly give his pets 
as much exercise as they would get ina wild state, and it 
seems rational that these dogs at least should be fed more 
Hehtly and less heatingly than others who are constantly on 
& go. 
I regret to have to confess that 1 am not enough of a com- 
parative physiologist to undertake to argue.as to what pro- 
vision is made in the dog for the digestion and assimilation of 
farinaceous and starchy substances, but practically these 
substances are digested. That isto say, a doz fed chiefly on 
bread or meal, will thrive; and his foecal discharges will not 
ye any evidence of undigested matter passing through him, 
hat they do require some animal food mixed with the flour 
or meal l am well aware, and Lhaye no doubt but what a dog 
fed only on flour or meal would in time starve. 
The point, however, that I want to make is nota theoretical 
one, but one thatis practically of great importance to the 
sportsman. What would a man do who had fed his dog en- 
tirely on meat, when he was camping out, or living in farm- 
houses, anywhere in the interior of Maine or the provinces, or 
in the Southern States, where butcher's meat is only seen when 
they killa pig or re which happens about twice a year? 
I know that I have had a great deal of trouble with my own 
dogs in such places, and yet they have been accustomed to a 
diet which was chiefly farinaceous, but always had some meat 
boiled up with it. Hvery year when I go north, the deck bo 
on the steamer, in spite of my orders, will cram the dogs wi 
meat and bones, ond it is a full week before] can get them to 
return to their usval food. Iam peifectly aware that the ad- 
vocate of meat feeding will say that this is a strong proof that 
they should be fed on meat; but how can you give them meat, 
when it is not to be got for love or money, and such is the case 
where I go. 
In the Southern States it is the same. I know of 
two young men who took two dogs into North 
Carolina quail shooting, They fed them on corn pones and 
bread, and the first quail that dropped was bolted feathers 
and ail, and through their stay it was a race every time to see 
whether the quail should be bagged or bolted. One of the 
dogs was ruined by the trip. I have lately had much comfort 
by taking some of Von Lengerke & Detmold’s beef flour 
among my supplies. A handful of this boiled up with meal 
and leavings makes a food that my dogs relish and on which 
they thrive, but I think a dog who had been fed on clear meat 
would have to about starve before he would eat what my dogs 
grow fat on. Mic Mac. 
Boston, Noy. 27. 
[The dog in the wild state isa carnivore. The teeth are 
formed for tearing the food, the canine teeth being long and 
pointed. The food is swallowed with but litte mastication. 
The digestive fluids—the gastric, pancreatic, bile and_ in- 
testinal juices—are quite similar in general properties to those 
of the human species, but the digestive power of these fluids 
is greater than that of those in man. The food of the dog in 
his domesticated condition should be modified, as his life is a 
modified state. A properly regulated mixed diet of farinaceous 
and animal foods is called for. When a dog is working the 
processes of waste and repair are going on with abnormal 
quickness, and then the more concentrated nourishment, such 
as raw or slizhtly coooked meat is called for, When on chain 
or not actively at work the diet should be regulated accord- 
ingly.] 
NATIONAL FIELD TRIALS. 
[Special to Forest and Stream.] 
CANTON, Miss., Dec. 8, 
HE field trials of the National American Kennel Club 
began here to-day with the All-Aged Stakes, The qudees 
are Hou. James M, Thompson of Covington, Maj. J. M. Taylor 
of Lexington, and F. J. Stoue, of Chattanooga, The weather 
is beautiful, and the work of the day has been good, Fourteen 
starters were drawn to run as follows: 
ALL-AGED DRAWING. 
Brssic A,—J. M, Avent’s (Hickory Valley, Tenn.) lemon 
and white Hneglish setter bitch Bessie A. (Dashing Lion— 
Armida), 
against 
RicHmonD.—J. E. Gill's (Lancaster, Pa.) lemon and white 
pointer dog Richmend (Don—Beulah). 
Mereor.—W. E. Hughes’s (St. Louis) liver and white pointer 
dog Meteor (Garnet—Jilt), 
against 
CLay.—W. T. Edwards’s (Varner, Ark.) red and white 
native setter dog Clay (Joe, Jr,—Fannie). 
Linzian.—P. H. & D. Bryson’s (Memphis, Tenn.) black, 
white and tan English setter bitch Lillian (Gladstone—Sue). 
against : 
Gus CAMPBELL.—J. lL. Valentine’s (Nashville, Tenn,) lemon 
and white native setter dog Gus Campbell (Joe, Jr.—annie). 
Lapy C.—B, M. Stephenson’s (La Grange, Tenn.) black, 
white and tan English setter bitch Lady C. (Coleman’s London 
—Belle of Hatchie), 
agaist 
Lapy Lrr,—W. B. Mallory’s (Memphis) black, white and 
tan English setter bitch Lady Lee (Gath—Juno IL.). 
PAUL GLADSTONE,—W, B. Gates’s (Memphis) black, white 
ae tan English setter dog Paul Gladstone (Gladstone—Lava- 
ette) 
, against 
Binuy Gates.—Dr, A. FP. McKinney’s (Forest Hill, Tenn.) 
ye ape, white English setter dog Billy Gates (Count Rapier 
—Kate B.). 
GLADSTONE Boy.—Dr, G. G. Ware’s (Stanton, Tenn.) black, 
white and tan English setter dog Gladstone Boy (Gladstone— 
Sue), 
a , against 
Mrpora.—W. B, Gates's (Memphis) black, white and tan 
English setter bitch Medora (Gladstone—Carrie J.). E 
Count Rapimr.—W. B. Gates’s (Memphis) black and white 
English setter dog Count Rapier (Druid—Magnolia), : 
against 
Sc. EimMo IV.—Dr. 8. Fleet Speir’s (Brooklyn, N. ¥.) black, 
ee and tan Hnglish setter dog St. Elmo IV. (St. Eimo— 
io), 
Bessie A. beat Richmond, after an hour of first-class work 
by both dogs. 
Meteor beat Clay in one hour and ten minutes. Clay found 
more birds than his antagonist, but was beaten in style and 
pace. 
Lillian beat Gus Campbell after a long heat in which some 
capital work was shown by both, Gus haying the best of it 
except in style. 
Lady C. beat Lady Lee in a short, well won heat. 
Paul Gladstone beat Billy Gates after a half hour of excel- 
lent running. 
Gladstone Boy and Medora kept up the standard of per- 
cae set by the previous braces, but did not finish their 
eat, 
Birds are plenty and everything promises well for to- 
morrow, 
Duc, 9.—The quality of the work to-day was the best that 
has ever been seen at a public trial. Birds were plenty and 
scent was good. The unfinished heat was won by Gladstone's 
Boy, beating Medora in a very Close heat. 
ount Rapier beat St. Himo TY. in a short but very brilliant 
heat, in which only one mistake was made. ‘his ended the 
first series. 
Tn the second series Gladstone's Boy beat Meteor. Lady C. 
beat Lillian. Paul Gladstone beat Bessie A. Count Rapier 
a bye. 
Tn the third series Gladstone’s Boy beat Count Rapier; and 
the heat between Lady C. and Pail Gladstone was not finished. 
[Special to Forest and Stream.] 
Canton, Miss., Dec. 10. 
Paul Gladstone beat Lady C., ending the third series in the 
final tie for first money. Paul Gladstone beat Gladstone Boy, 
winning first. Lady C, beat Bess A. Lady ©. beat Gladstone 
Boy, and won second, Bess A, and Lillian are running to 
decide which shall run with Gladstone Boy for third place. 
The Derby has twenty-three entries, drawn as follows: 
THE DERBY DRAWING. 
Gum.—Dr. J. N. Maclin, Keeting, Tenn., lemon and white 
English setter bitch, April 16 (Gladstone—Gazelle), 
against 
LinrrAn.—P. H.-& D, Bryson, Memphis, Tenn., black, white 
and tan English setter bitch, Aug. 21 (Gladstone—Sue). 
Bruty Gares.—Dr. A. F. McKinney, Forest Hill, Tenn., 
black and white Hnglish setter dog, Aug. 21 (Count Rapier— 
Kate B.), 
t 
agains ‘ 
Lapy Bzessi.—J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn, lemon 
and white bitch, Oct. 5 (Gladstone—Beésie ae? a a 
Ricumonp.—E. M. Usher, Vincennes, Ind,, lemon and white 
dog, April 22 (Sergeant—Eva), 
. = ering 
Pavun JoNnESs,—Major J. - Renfroe, Atlanta, Ga,., black, 
