Feb. 36, 1885.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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stand, at a meeting of the club in the Palace for their special- 

 ist! show to be held some time this year. 



Mr. Ash win makes an unlucky hit in choosing setters to il- 

 lustrate his argument, Though the colors of getters are often 

 mentioned, it is the difference of breeds that makes them dis- 

 tinct. 1 think this proposal is doomed, for though the fox- 

 terrier classes hare Long exceeded eoUies and all other breeds 

 in numbers, no such fantastic division has ever been hinted. 



Lastly, 1 will compliment Mr, Ash win upon one accurate 

 deduction embodied in his statement, that the present high 

 position (though very far from perfect) of dog shows is greatly 

 due to the "disappointed exhibitor." 



Now that the "Roving Highlander" has in your columns 

 come, to his rescue, I begin to pity Mr. Harston. "A plague 

 Upon such backing 1" Tins unsettled child of Haggislaud is 

 surely the same restless soul that formerly wandered through 

 columns of our papers over the fitting appellation of the 

 "1 laving, no "Roving, Scot," We had lost sight of the erratic 

 wight who would ever clash and argue with anybody on a 

 Scotch breed, because; 



"It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, 

 And bide by the buff and tbe blue." 



But it's all right, "R. H.," Caledonia is nae that f ou that. 

 She requires your support, and the polities you kuow, well 

 they are as out of date as those of the people who in 1688 

 sang that they had 



— "taken a sware, 

 Lillibulero, bnlleualall. 



Dat dey would have uo protestant heir, 

 LgfOj 'ero, bulleualah! 



"Roving Highlander" gives you a description of his High- 

 land or Glen li vet tl know an excellent whisky of that name, 

 d'ye ken it Cf . M. ?) sheepdog which must be a most fearful and 

 gruesome beast, the sort of thing I should like to buy to shoot 

 at. 



There is something very touching in his complaint, "I have 

 been one of the best-abused men Irving," but he quickly takes 

 heart aud concludes gamely, threatening to "show yon some 

 Scotch dogs on the American benches." Oh! you're in for it 

 now. In my broad compassion I can forgive your Bunker 

 Hill and even the Alabama claims. 



I. see Mr, ilarston thanks the Scot for his support and wants 

 Mr. Davidson to let him " call him a friend." Why not, cer- 

 tainly—" call him early," call him whatever you like but 

 don't mislead American "breeders upon the question of collies. 

 And you. " Roving Highlander," cease your " wanderings ," 

 return to your stand outside the. shop where iu the good old- 

 fashioned days you stood in national costume with wooden 

 mien to advert&e not your own poor vapors, but the pungent 

 rappee iuside. (rood Highlander, get thee to a tobacconist's I 



" Corsincon," in his " things iu General " and nothing in par- 

 ticular, has written a bright and friendly notice of "Lillibulero,'' 

 whom he imagines to have seen with the aid of a medium at 

 a seance. Put not your trust in stances oh, Hugh ! It "gars 

 me greet " (I have turned on the Scotch this time) to insinu- 

 ate that the spirits have played an alcoholic prank upon the 

 doggy "Paladin of the Pen," and I am compelled to deny the 

 phantasm. I have not "a charming mustache," my hand is 

 not "natty" nor "little "--but I will own to the "self-com- 

 plaisant air" which I have cultivated to study the mazy 

 efforts of a busy crowd to solve what is after all, no riddle. 

 Praise me and 1 will smile, discuss and denounce, but leave my 

 identity alone. I am not a conundrum. What matters it 

 who prepares the pickles, the sauce woidd taste as sharp by 

 any other name. 



The latest on dit, that however to the best of my belief is a 

 fact, is that Mr. J. Bissell has raised the fee of his stud collie 

 champion Charlemagne from ten to twenty guineas, and 

 limited the number of services to thirty for the current year, 

 and mirabile dictu, 1 am told the list is full. £600 a year from 

 one collie ! Verily, but if the dog be an unclean animal, 

 unprofitable is he not, nor stale at his age. 



There is much eccentricity mixed with an Englishman's 

 chaiity. The last thing I have been asked to subscribe my 

 hard-earned niites to, is "The Anti-Cruelty to Animals 

 Society on the Riviera," Can't the Italians look after their 

 own brutes ? Where is their erst famed champion, the 

 authoress of Puck and That Dog of Flanders ! 



The Dandie Dinniont Club shows signs of returning anima- 

 tion. They have captured a right honorable lord for their 

 patron and an earl for president. That's the way to do 

 it; there's nothing like a good figurehead, it's purely ornamen- 

 tal, it does* not assist the ship's motion, but it gives the crew a 

 swagger. In looking for lords you must be sure you get the 

 right sort, those of worldly wealth, for a poor lord is no use, 

 he is a great expense— in fact, only the richest societies and 

 individuals can afford to keep a tame lord, This Dandie Din- 

 mont Club particularly calls itself, I notice, the "Southern 

 Branch." Why, whence? "No scandal about King Corsin- 

 con, I hope!" Anyhow, they have an influential list of mem- 

 bers and are busy in holding meetings. 



There is a talk of resuscitating the Spaniel Club. Mr. 

 Cowell, late honorary secretary of the York show, has taken 

 it up, so there is a good chance of its success. It is a pity that 

 Mr. Bowers, whose name is so familiar in the breed, should 

 have made himself so impossible by his offensive conduct 

 toward that hardworking, underpaid and overkicked gentle- 

 man, Mr. Holford, who was honorary secretary to the former 

 Spaniel Club. 



Booking through the Hanley schedule of prizes I have come 

 across the last outward and visible sign of Mr. Fred G-resharn's 

 imbecility. He has positively persuaded the easy-going pro- 

 prietors of the Live Stock Journal to offer a free subscription 

 to their paper as a prize. It is incredible that a respectable 

 organ should descend to an act so mean, so little, for the sake 

 of advertisement. Where was the inert tact of the able 

 editor-in-chief, Mr. James Macdonald, when this ridiculous 

 and contemptible idea was proposed to hirn? The thought is 

 worthy of Mr. Fred Gresham, and of nobody else in the whole 

 doggy world. 



'Wildfowler" has been quick to expose the ridicule of the 

 scheme and this week gravely offers to every show two sub- 

 scriptions to his paper, one to be awarded to the worst sport- 

 ing and the other to the worst non-sporting dog in the stiovv. 

 It is unlikely that any decent judge wdl lend himself for such 

 undignified and clap-trap purposes. "Wildfowler" makes the 

 oiler with his tongue in his cheek, Mr, Fred Gresham makes 

 the offer in shame -faced earnest. 



The Stock Keeper has closed the correspondence and 

 summed up the Crown Prince paternity case. It is dead 

 against the club. Though there has been more wool and less 

 cry it has not saved the cook a roasting. I think there are two 

 far- fetched jokes in that sentence. 



A letter from Mr. Joplin in the Sporting Times appears to 

 have (purposely, probably) escaped notice over here. He 

 affirms and gives his] witness that whde the deerhound awards 

 were being made,at the late Crystal Palace show, two other 

 persons were in the ring and assisted the judge in his decisions. 

 "One of the men who was praising the merits of the first-prize 

 dog turns out to be the owner." Bevis was the winner, but I 

 can scarcely credit that Mr. H. Stephen would so far forget 

 his position as secretary and manager as to behave in the 

 manner indicated. "Wildfowler" is a good hand at "feed- 

 ing" a correspondence, why was tins allowed to drop? I have 

 to thank "Wildfowler" for taking my hint, he now gives "Lilli- 

 bulero" the credit when he does him the honor to quote his 

 remarks. 



On cutting the leaves of my Stock Keeper to find a letter I 

 had written on the "no re-admission without fine" question at 

 the Kennel Club shows, I was overwhelmed with modest con- 

 fusion to find that in the gossip, the correspondence and the 

 leader columns, the topic of the week was the old song, trans- 

 formed to a peanism, to the tune of Lilubulebo. 



Feb. 0, 1885. 



THE SCOTCH COLLIE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I hare observed in one or two recent munbors of the Forest 

 and Stream sonic letters incident to the Highland variety of 

 the. Scotch collie. On some points those letters were reliable 

 and calculated to give Americans a correct knowledge of the 

 Scotch collie aud its dissimilitudes; on other points they were 

 entirely unreliable. 



I do not know who "A Roving Highlander" may be, but one 

 thing I am certaiu of, he has been roving so long that he has 

 forgotten how to spell the word collie. I never saw nor heard 

 of the word being spelt collcy. I was born and have always 

 lived in the Highlands. I have devoted a deal of time and 

 money in the breeding and perfecting of collies. I have 

 reached high eminence in the pursuit, as the different prize 

 lists demonstrate, and never have I heard the word spelt 

 colley, 



Now, I should like to touch on another point, also in "A 

 Roving Highlander's" letter. *The Highland collie, as described 

 by hirn, is not the Highland collie, but the English bobtail. 

 The Highland or north country collie differs from the Low- 

 land or south country oOlha only in a few respects, the chief 

 of which arc as follows: 



Smaller all over and lighter in the bone. Shorter and mora 

 wiry-coated. The color is almost invariably black and tan. 

 The' head shoidd bo finely moulded and must not show the 

 least heaviness in the nose, as that at once smells of the Gor- 

 don setter. The ears should be small and set on as like the 

 fox's as possible. 



I have only lately arrived in this country and I imported a 

 typical specimen of the pedigree Highland enllie. She has all 

 the points that I speak of, and received general admiration at 

 the recent Fanciers' show. 



Before closing I should like to touch on one other point. 



When visiting the kennels of one of your most famous collie 

 breeders a few days ago, 1 was surprised to see one or two of 

 his best dogs with heather claws. When I spoke of them the 

 breeder did not even know what they were. Iu case some of 

 my readers may be in the same predicament, I will describe 

 them. They are common claws, situated about two and a 

 half inches from the foot, on the inside of the hindlegs. 

 Now, in our country, the presence ot "heather" claws lessens 

 the chance of a dog obtaining a prize. I myself at a recent 

 doe: show in Scotland had a collie bitch which lost first plane 

 Simply because it had those deformities. I may state that she 

 was tired by a man who knows little about collies. Now, the 

 way to remedy this fault is to cut the heather claws off when 

 the pups are quite young. In cutting care should be taken to 

 use charp scissors, and to cut smooth with the leg, 



As far as 1 can judge during my short stay on this side, you 

 have some capital dogs, but the selection of collie judges has 

 been most unsatisfactory' Now, this is a thing that should be 

 seen to and remedied, as if not it is apt to discourage collie 

 breeders. From reports I understand that the selection of 

 judge for the New Haven show has given general satisfaction. 



Hoping that the foregoing remarks may be interesting to 

 collie breeders in this country, I remain, etc., Scotsman. 



THE IRISH TERRIER GARRYOWEN. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your issue of Jan. 22 is just to hand. I notice that your 

 correspondent "Lillibulero" mentions my name saying that I 

 have been spoken of in one of your journals as the "great 

 faker. " A friend of mine some time ago sent me a copy of one of 

 your contemporaries, in which he spoke of some person— who 

 had the Irish terrier Garry o wen returned to hirn because the 

 paint had worn off his nose — as the "great faker." As I never 

 had Garryowen returned to me by any person for the reason 

 stated, I clearly cannot be the person referred to. I bred 

 Garryowen, also his father and granddam, and from a puppy 

 to the day I parted with him, his nose was black, and further- 

 more, I never bred au Irish terrier with a white nose. The 

 present owner of the dog (Dr. Niven) saw the dog at my place 

 here before he ever weut to America, and his nose was then 

 black. Garryowen is sire of Garryf ord, for whom I was offered 

 £50 by a gentleman here acting on behalf of a gentleman in 

 Canada, and Garryford in turn is she of Gilford, who is about 

 seventeen months old and has won eight first and two special 

 prizes, the only times shown, and he never was shown twice 

 under the same judge. I inclose $5 for the Lincoln fund. 



Wm. Gkaham. 



Newtownbreda, Belfast, Feb. 3, 1885. 



NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The New Haven Kennel Club has established a class for 

 greyhound p uppies, and has decided that in all other puppy 

 classes when ten or more entries are received they will be 

 divided, dogs and bitches. 



E. S. Porter, Secretary N. H. K. C. 



New Haven, Conn., Feb. 23. 



VETERINAR1ES IN ENGLAND. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: My attention has just been called to a rather flatter- 

 ing notice of myself by your correspondent "Lillibulero," in 

 his report of Dr. Forbes Winslow's sale, but he has made a 

 misstatement that is likely to do me an injury. As your paper 

 is read by a large number of both horsy and doggy men who 

 have known me for a long time as a veterinary surgeon, and 

 some of them may not know that I have a right to the title, 

 given me by the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary 

 Surgeons, London. England. "Lillibulero" is in error with 

 regard to anybody over here being allowed to call himself 

 a veterinary surgeon. Any one so doing, whose name cannot 

 be found upon the register, is liable to a fine of £20. I feel 

 sure from the jocular style of your correspondent's letter that 

 he is a good sort of a fellow, and trust that he aud I will be 

 none the less friends through my endeavor to put him and 

 myself right in this matter. Now, sir, I will just ask you and 

 your correspondent a question that I think you will both, 

 as just and honorable men, answer in the negative. Do you 

 think it right to publish in a widely circulated" journal a prob- 

 ability about a man without first assuring yourselves that it 

 is a reality? With regard to breeding fox-terriers, I have kept 

 and bred them for more than twenty-five years, and have had 

 a long list of winners on the show bench. I have still a good 

 kennel, containing one champion dog, a winner of seventeen 

 first and extra prizes, including four championships. I have 

 also kept and exhibited with success bloodhounds, greyhounds, 

 dachshunde and spaniels, some of which I have given and 

 obtained very high prices for. Trusting to have the pleasure 

 of your better acquaintance, 1 beg to subscribe myself with 

 the title your correspondent thinks I have no right to use. — 

 J. R. Whittle, V. S. (Hayes, Middlesex, England, Jan. 17). 



A WHOPPER.— Portland, Oregon.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream; I clip the following from the New York Sun of Jan. 

 24: "A 13,000 Dog. Hurleyville, N. Y., Jan. 28,-Daniel Lons- 

 berry has purchased the old and celebrated dog Trailer of S. 

 Applebee for $3,000. Trailer is 40 inches high, stands on his 

 legs as straight as a terrier, and carries his 215% pounds of 

 bone and muscle with surprising ease and activity." Will you 

 be kind enough— if the facts are known to you— to tell me 

 what breed of dog this is, and whether dogs of any breed 40 

 inches at the shoulder are often seen? The largest dogs I have 

 ever seen or heard of are the rough-coated St. Bernards, and 

 I never saw one of these that was more than 32 inches high. 

 I am told that the celebrated St. Bernard Rector now owned 

 by Joseph Emmet, of Albany, N. Y., is 35 inches high-at the 

 shoulder, and is, without doubt, the largest dog now living. If 

 this dog Trailer is 40 inches high and weighs more than 200 



pounds, I think Rector will have to look to his laurels. My 

 particular "hobby" is a gigantic dog, and so I wish to know of 

 this new won dcr.— Alpha, [If a dog 40 inches high a b the 

 shoulder has lived to old age wdthout notoriety, it is more 

 wonderful than the fact itself would be.] 



A CARD FROM MR. MORTIMER.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: Will you favor me by kindly inserting the following 

 explanation why I refused to accept the classes assigned me 



should choose my own classes. To this I replied that I should 

 like to judge at New Haven, but that I thought the West- 

 minster Kennel Club intended making an exhibit there, in 

 the event Of which 1 should not feel at liberty to do so. Judge 

 then of my surprise when week before last I received a tele- 

 grom Mr, "Porter saying that deerhounds, greyhounds, etc., 

 were assigned to me. This without the slightest consultation 

 With me as to the classes I would prefer to judge, or as to 

 associate judges. I at once replied by letter, declining the 

 proffered honor. Mr. Porter will bear me out in what I here 

 state, and contradict the statement made iu a contemporary 

 that I attempted to dictate to him or to the association he 

 represents.— James Mortimer, Supt. Westminster Kennel 

 Club (Feb. 17). 



PHILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB— Philadelphia, Feb. 21. 

 — Editor Forest and Stream,: At a meeting of the Philadel- 

 phia Kennel Club held Feb. 17, 18S5, the following resolution 

 was adopted : "Resolved, That Wm. H. Pierce, Glencho Ken- 

 nels, Pcekskill, N. Y., be disqualified from exhibiting any dog 

 or dogs at any bench show held under the auspices of this 

 club until Jan. 1, 1887," This action was owing to the entry 

 by Mr. P. of the red Irish setter bitch Reeta, the property of 

 Mr. James T. Walker, Troy, N, Y., as one of his kennel, which 

 was awarded the kennel prize. — Wm. H. Childs, Acting Sec- 

 retary Philadelphia Kennel Club. 



AMERICAN ENGLISH BEAGLE CLUB.— The following 

 is the result of the late election for officers of the A. E. B. C. : 

 President, W. H. Ashburner, Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary 

 and Treasurer (by appointment of the Executive Committee), 

 F. W. YVheaton, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Executive Committee — 

 F. D. Hallett, Winsted, Ct. ; Dr. J. W. Downey, New Market, 

 Md. ; J. M. Bergold, Canal Fulton, O. On account of the de - 

 clinatnre of the nominee for the office of secretary and treas- 

 urer, that office was filled by appointment of the executive 

 committee, according to Article TV", of our constitution.— A. 

 C. Krtjeger, Ex-Secretary and Treasurer (Wrightsville, Pa., 

 Feb. 18, 1885). _ 



DOGS LOST.— Dr. G. A. Williams has lost his white setter 

 dog, he had on an alligator collar with Mr. Williams's name 

 engraved on metal. This dog has three lemon spots about the 

 size of a nickel and in the form of a clover on the top of his 

 head, also a lemon spot at the root of tail. Any further in- 

 formation gladly received.— Flick Flick Mr. Raleigh C, 



Thomas, 82 Chase street. Baltimore, Md,, lost, on the 14th of 

 December last, his blue belton English setter dog. One side 

 of his head is black and the other side bluish gray, he has a 

 black mark at root of tail. A reward of $25 will be paid for 

 his return. 



"WILDFOWLER."— Monticello, Jan. 10, 1884,— Editor For- 

 est and Stream: In February, 1884, I bargained with Lewis 

 Clement ("Wildfowler") editor of the Shooting Times, Lon- 

 don, England, for a beagle dog, which he agreed to send me 

 on receipt of $80, delivered in New York port. I sent him the 

 money by draft, which was paid to CJ ement on the 4th day of 

 March, 1884. He kept both the dog and the money, $80, and 

 will not reply to several letters which I have written him,— 

 C. F. Kent. 



KENNEL NOTES. 



NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS, 



Kennel notes are inserted in this column free of charge. To insure 

 publication of notes, correspondents MUST GIVE the following par- 

 ticulars of each animal; 



1. Color. 6. Name and residence of owner, 



2. Breed. buyer or seller. 



3. Sex. 7. Sire, with his she and dam. 



4. Age, or 8. Owner of sire. 



5. Date of birth, of breeding or 6. Dam, with her sire and dam. 



of death 10. Owner of dam. 



All names must be plainly written. Communication on one side of 

 paper only, and signed with writer's name. 



NAMES CLAIMED. 



JEP~ See instructions at head of this column. 



Honest Bert. By E. Holley, Jr., Hudson, N. Y., for Jiver,with white 

 on breast, cocker spaniel bitch, whelped May 30, 1S84, by Chance 

 (Don— Flossy) out of Fly (Baby— Fido). 



Ferryman, Poller, Widget and Flighty, By Thos. Goode Tucker, 

 South Gaston, N. C, for Byron foxhounds, whelped Jan. 23. 18S5, by 

 Rouse (Racket— Trouble) out of Fanny (Watchman— Nelly Hardy). 



Blaze. By Jas. F. Johnson, Brooklyn. N. Y., for black and white 

 cocker spaniel dog, whelped Sept, 30, 1884, by Ober (A.K.R. 855) out of 

 Bessie (Captain— Toss). 



Glen Ada, Glen Ola, Glen Elly, Glen Lass and Fairy Glen. By E. 

 W. Jester, St. George's, Del., for three lemon belton and two blue 

 beltou English setter bitches, whelped Nov. 22, 1884, by his Glen Rock 

 (A.K.R. 1616) out of his Blue Belle (A.K.R. 99). 



Lady Ellen. By Geo. A. Rose, Schenectady, N. Y., for black, white 

 and tan English setter bitch, whelped July 10, 1884, by Mike (Decimal 

 Dash— Donnfir's Bessie) out of Fanny (Count Noble— Whitman's 

 Flirt). ^ 



Keen Scent, Quail B., Romping Peggy, May Bale, Daisy C, Elfie 

 and Hindu. By Ravenswood Kennels, Boston, Mass., for black and 

 u\-i.;i,> ■> ;u i, ->'u,er.s, two dogs and five bitches, whelped Jan. 35, 

 1885. by Dash III. out of Nellie Dale. 



Brigadier. By N. Palmer, Baltimore, Md., for liver and white 

 ticked pointer dog, whelped July 29, 1883, by Beaufort (A.K.R. 694) out 

 of Coulsou's Lillie. 



Wonder, By Jas. A. Cathcart, Atlantic City, N. J., for red Irish 

 setter dog. whelped Jan. 26, 1885, by Chester (Duke— Brownie) out of 

 his Lady Bess (Dash Elcho— Bess). 



Diuniuiul Gladstone. By Chas. York, Bangor, Me., for English 

 Better dog, whelpccl July 19, 1884. by bis Gun (A.K.R, 1538) out of -his 

 Pearl Blue (A.K.R. 1542). 



Forest Hill Kennels. By Chas. York, Bangor, Me., for his kennel 

 of Llewellyn setters. 



BRED. 



JSr~" See instructions at head of this column. 



Brier— Loyal Blue. Dr. F. B. Greenough's (Boston, Mass.) English 

 Better bitch Brier (A.KR. 101) to A. Flagg's Royal Blue (Gladstone- 

 Mersey), Feb. 1. 



Pearl Blue— Gun, Chas. York's (Bangor, Me.) English setter 

 bitch Pearl Blue (A.K.R. 1542) to his Gun (A.K.R. 1538), Dec. 8, 1884. 



Zelpha—Puck. Henry C. Burdick's (Springfield, Mass.) Italian 

 greyhound bitch Zelpha to E. W. Jester's Puck (Silk Socks— Naughty"), 

 Jan. 22. 



Fannie— Bob Boy. J. K. Yore's (St. Louis, Mo.) imported collie 

 bitch Fannie to J. A. Long's Rob Roy (A.K.R. 334) Feb. 13. 



Fly— Colonel Stubbs. E. Holley, Jr. \s (Hudson, N.Y.j cocker spaniel 

 bitch Fly (Baby— Fido) to Colonel Stubbs (A.K.R. 80S), Feb. 1. 



Dolly D. —Sambo. Samuel S, McCuen's (New Orleans, La.) pug 

 bitch Dolly D. (A.K.R. 1445) to his Sambo (A.K.R. 572). Feb. 14. 



Miss Georgie D.— Sambo. Samuel S. McCuen's (New Orleans, La.) 

 pug- bitcb Miss Georgie D. (Little Boffin— Jennie) to his Sambo (A K.R. 

 572), Feb. 1. 



Spider— Skye. Samuel S. McCuen's (New Orleans, La.) Skye terrier 

 bitch Spider (Smutt— Xopsy) to his Skye, Feb. 11. 



Birdie II— Duke. J. W. Stanley's (Butte City, Mont.) English 

 setter bitch Birdie II. (Sam— Birdie) to Dr. B. Robinson's Duke, Nov. 

 3, 1884. 



Hornell Ruby-Obo II. Hornell Spaniel Club's (Hornellsville.N.Y.) 

 cocker spaniel bitch Hornell Ruby (A.K.R. 6?) to champion Obo II. 

 (A K.R. 43.2), Jan. 28. 



Dinah W.— Black Pedro. J. P. Willey's (Salmon Falls, N. H.) 

 cocker spaniel hitch Dinah W. to his Black Pedro (A.K.R. 1474), 

 Jan. 2o. 



