MAEcn 10, 1887. J 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



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MR. GEORGE R. KREHL AND HIS FRIENDS 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have seen no remarks for or against me in yonr columns, 

 so venture to ask the favor of some space for a few plain and 

 truthful words. I am not to blame that my affairs have 

 been brought to the attention of American kennel men. I 

 should very willingly never see my name in priut again, 

 For a long" time I was covered with the abuse of the man 

 whose friend I used to be, the editor of the Kennel Review. 

 Mr. H. W, Carter, whose unfortunate fate is no doubt, 

 known to your readers. The charge he brought against me 

 of poisoning his dogs, had it emanated from any other per- 

 son, would have been a terrible one, but coming whence it 

 did, members of the Euglish Kennel Club only smiled or sor- 

 rowfully shook their heads. Friends of mine on your side 

 took it in a serious light and wrote kind words of protest, 

 but I have held silence until now that my attention has 

 been drawn to an extension of the charge against a man who 

 is unlikely to see it or unable to reply . Mr. Carter, under 

 pressure, reduced his charge to this, that I was "an acces- 

 sory after the fact," which means, I understand, that after 

 his dogs were poisoned I knew of it. I did not know what 

 this could refer to until I saw a letter in your contemporary, 

 Turf, Field and Farm. The writer of it says: 



"Mr. Carter had a fellow working for him, who got in- 

 volved in peccadilloes with two or more housemaids at 

 once, and Mr, Carter, very wisely, fired him. This fellow 

 lived very near Mr. Carter's kennels, and after bis discharge 

 by Mr. Carter was employed by Mr. Krehl and subsequently 

 to his employment by Mr. Krehl poison was found in Mr. 

 Carter's kennels, and there seemed no doubt that this fellow 

 put it there, and he is still in Mr. Krehl's employ at last ac- 

 counts. Now mark the stour kicked up about this. Mr. 

 Carter is correct; an employee that Mr. Krehl still retains in 

 his employ put the poison there. 'Porcupine' is right; there 

 is no evidence that Mr. Krehl had any share in the placing 

 of the poison there, as vindictiveness on the part of the em- 

 ployee would seem a sufficient incentive, but why don't one 

 or the other come out with it and let the whole affair be 

 judged at its true value!''" 



The name of "the fellow" is Alfred Goodenough, who was 

 formerly my kennel man. He left me and afterward entered 

 Mr. Carter's service. The charge about the housemaids 1 

 know nothing of, but it strikes me as monstrously incredi- 

 ble, because while Goodenough was with Mr. Carter he was 

 married from his master's house. Mr. Carter at the time 

 wrote to press me to "come down to the wedding of my old 

 servant." I did not go. After the ceremony Mr. Carter took 

 Goodenough, his wife and her bridesmaid for a drive in 

 Eastwell Park. I mention this to show that Goodenough 

 was provided with moral incentive and to show the kind re- 

 lations existing at that time between master and man. 

 When Goodenough left Mr. Carter's service he. called on me 

 to account for his leaving (he went wi rh a character from 

 me), but as it appeared to include complaints I refused to 

 hear him. Goodenough is at present kennelman to Mr. L. 

 Oppenheim, who owns a famous kennel of smooth St. Ber- 

 nards. The charge against him is foolish, and I have shown 

 that he was only once in my employ, which was before he 

 went to Mr. Carter, and never since. 



In the same journal T find my name again. The paragraph 

 is called "Pleasantries of Kennel Journalism." It gives a 

 reply that is false to a question put by "Porcupine" in the. 

 Sporting Life to Mr. Hugh Dalziel. 'The query was: "Did 

 not a certain gentleman he has been attacking in a very vio- 

 lent manner of late, attend to his work on the Bazaar while 

 he (Mr, Dalziel) was in America last year, and let the salary 

 remain for the traveler to receive on his return?" An hone3t, 

 manly, straightforward answer to that question would have 

 been "Yes, Krehl did." But this is what your contempor- 

 ary was instructed to say for the defense: 



"We are informed that Mr. Krehl did not keep Dalziel's 

 position on The Bazaar open for him while he (Dalziel) was 

 over here. Dalziel's official, salaried position on the paper 

 named, was taken during his visit to this country by a dis- 

 tinguished veterinary surgeon, whose name we will not give 

 at present. Mr. Krehl had nothing to do with it. However, 

 in addition to his regular work on the Bazaar, Dalziel used 

 to supply a column, more or less, of on dits, a kind of 

 melange like the Whispers of Fancy in the Stock-Keeper, 

 and he asked Mr. Krehl, in common' with several others, to 

 see that the paper got something of this sort every week 

 This Mr. Krehl kindly did, but, we understand, the editor of 

 the Scottish Fancier contributed the larger part of this 

 column. So Mr. Krehl didn't keep the position for Dalziel. 

 Again, it was not on personal grounds,! e., Dalziel's tip- 

 pling, that he and Mr. Krehl fell out. The real cause of it 

 was that Dalziel had agreed with the Stock-Keeper to edit 

 the canine dictionary that ran a few numbers in the paper, 

 and he claimed that Mr. Krehl had violated the terms of the 

 agreement. In addition to this, it seems Dalziel wrote Mr. 

 Krehl plainly, that the allegations of the famous "Anony- 

 mous Document," that the Euglish Collie Club was run in 

 the interest of a ring, that they manipulated the judging so 

 as to always show dogs under judges that they knew would 

 put them first, etc., were too true, and urged Mr. Krehl to 

 guide the club in wiser courses." 



Let me tell you the simple facts. Before Mr. Dalziel's de- 

 parture to fulfil his judging engagements in America, I was 

 on terms of great intimacy with him. A few days before he 

 sailed he came to me, saying he had a favor to ask, which 

 was to do his work on the Bazaar while he was away. He 

 said very little would be required, just something to keep the 

 column open. He feared the consequences of its being dropped 

 while he was away, it was a verv regular part of his income 

 He plainly put it to me as a trustful friend, so one not likely 

 to oust him from his place. I understood I was to keep the 

 berth warm for him, and felt a pleasure in being in receipt 

 of his confidence. The work I had to do and the style I was 

 to copy, did not require the exercise of anv thought or intel- 

 ligence, it was mere hard labor like stone'breaking. I am a 

 very busy man, but I complied for the sake of friendship. 

 Mr. Dalziel mentioned that his daughter would also assist. 

 I noticed that other copy than that I had contributed ap- 

 peared and attributed it to Miss Dalziel. When Mr. Dalziel 

 returned suddenly and unexpectedly from America he came 

 straight to me, saying he felt it his duty to pay me his first 

 visit, to express his thanks, etc., and he very fairly said when 

 he got his check he would pay me for what 1 had done. I 

 replied I had done it as an actof friendship and declined his 

 offer, which was well meant. Your contemporary's remark, 

 therefore, that I "had nothing to do with it" is misleading 

 I was astonished to read that another gentleman had been 

 asked the same favor as myself, and I am also sorry, because 

 when it is read with what I have related above, it represents 

 Mr. Dalziel in a deceitful character, for had he had the 

 candor to tell me of this, I should have refused his insincere 

 request. The account given in your contemporarv of the 

 reason of Mr. Dalziel's split with the Stock-Keener is 

 false, absurdly false! The complaint was against the 

 editor of the paper for delaying to make out the 

 agreement between the Stock-Keeper and us (Mr. Dalziel and 

 me). I have Mr. Dalziel's letters to prove this. Why, I was to 

 be his collaborator in the "Kennel Dictionary," his interests 

 and mine were identical and I did all I could tb hurry on the 

 agreement. The real cause of the split was quite different 

 but I have no desire, to wash Mr. Dalziel's dirty linen under 

 the nose of the American kennel world. I have never quar- 

 relled with him, but his quarrel with me is due to the mean- 

 est feeling in human nature. Mr. Dalziel believes I am the 

 kennel editor of the Stock-Keeper, and he knows that he is 

 not. Ray on the Creation says: "Envy is a repining at the 

 prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at 



any good of another which we want, or any advantage an 

 other hath above us," 



It is with unfeigned reluctance that I come to the last par- 

 agraph in this extract. Mr. Dalziel's character I fear has 

 already suffered in the estimation of your countrymen, and 

 I hesitate to add a particle to his humiliation; but this de- 

 scription of his opinion of the anonymous collie document is 

 so willfully, shockingly false that on behalf of the members 

 of the Collie Club and the committee to which I belong, I 

 am compelled to avow that the statement now made is an 

 absolute fabrication. If he had held the views described I 

 should have immediately dispensed with his acquaintance, 

 but he did not; he agreed with me and other respectable 

 people that the circular was a vile and cowardly libel. I 

 dare Mr. Dalziel to dispute this aud I dare him to give me 

 penuission to produce the proof which all who see your 

 paper and know Mr. Dalziel shall judge of. 



George R. Krehl. 



Lonbon, England. 



A VIRGINIA FOX HUNT. 



ST. VALENTINE'S was the first day of the February 

 term of the County Court of Louisa, Virginia. On 

 that day an arrangement was made for a meet at Woodville, 

 the residence of Mr. Harris, situated in Goochland county, 

 near the Louisa line, on the Wednesday following, at day- 

 break. At dawn a select party of the Goochland County 

 Hunt Club, including the secretary Mr. P. G. Millet, aha 

 several invited friends, were in readiness with the club dogs, 

 and the horn of the sheriff of Goochland and the commis- 

 sioners of the revenue, Messrs. Trice and Parrisb, also mem- 

 bers of the club, was heard approaching the rendezvous with 

 another pack, while Col. Winston and II. .1. Wale, Esq.. two 

 prominent citizens of Louisa, were coming to join us from 

 another direction 



As we were about to mount we heard one of the sheriff 's 

 dogs strike nearly a mile away. The sheriff frantically 

 called and blew his horn in the endeavor to get his dogs off, 

 but in vain. Other dogs joined in, and finally all of the 

 club dogs became uncontrollable and scampered away. 

 Gradually we heard the notes of our best and most reliable 

 dogs as they joined in. Then we cheered and mounted our 

 horses and made ready to follow as soon as it could be deter- 

 mined what direction they would take, for it was apparent 

 that there was no false trail; but reynard was up, and the 

 chase had begun, 



The day was surpassingly lovely— one of those charming 

 days which conn-' at r:i re intervals in this part of the ''Sunny 

 South" at this season. Not a cloud was to be seen. A 

 gentle breeze from the south was just sufficient to lift the 

 mists which hung in t he serene and balmy atmosphere, upon 

 which were borne those sweet rural sounds of early morning 

 so frequently the subjects of prose and poetry. 



We listened to the dogs and could hear the distinctive 

 notes of each, their tones now swelling into a resounding 

 chorus, then dying away over the distant hills and forests 

 until they were miles away from where we were. But our 

 horses as well as our dogs were in admirable trim. We saw 

 that the pack had taken the western branch of Lickinghole 

 Creek, in a northwest direction, and being thoroughly ac- 

 quainted with every foot of ground in that vkinity Harris 

 and I put our horses at full speed and followed without stop- 

 ping for fences or ditches until our companions were far 

 behind. Though it , was a gray fox he kept straight ahead. 

 He seemed to have had a long start of his pursuers, but the 

 uproar behind him was so great that he never stopped to 

 double. On, on he went. But he left his scent suspended in 

 the atmosphere. The dogs never faltered, but ran with heads 

 erect. We could distinguish the shrill cry of Mr. Wale's 

 Billy Mahone, and the deep bass of John and Ned, a trio of 

 noble appearance, "unmatched for courage, breath and 

 speed," and the voices of Music, Wise and Rover, and a 

 score of others all chimed in. 



For a long time the fox ran straight on, but getting into a 

 dense wood he turned at right angles to the east, coming 

 directly toward us. They passed us in full cry, Wise in the 

 lead, closely followed by more than a score of as fine fox- 

 hounds as ever gladdened a hunter's heart. As they swept 

 by with lightning rapidity we gave them a cheer, and turn- 

 ing followed them at our utmost speed. Reynard, now 

 sorely distressed, managed to dodge around the corners 

 where several fences met, and seizing an opportunity darted 

 away unseen among a flock of sheep, and then sped on his 

 way again, aiming for a swamp about two miles away. But 

 the ruse failed him. One or two experienced dogs' swept 

 around the flock of sheep, and quickly taking up the trail 

 were instantly joined by the entire pack. Poor reynard had 

 no other opportunity to double. Nearer and nearer came the 

 whirlwind of sounds behind him, urging him to one more 

 supreme effort to gjiin sufficient distance and time to enable 

 him to practice those wiles which erst had saved his life. He 

 gained the swamp, but delusive was his hope. His veiling 

 pursuers swarmed so closely at his back that he had to dash 

 madly through and straight on over the open field where he 

 was quickly overtaken and killed. 



Harris and I were up at the death, but our friends had 

 been left so far behind that they but faintly heard our horn, 

 which announced the end of the chase. When they joined 

 us, we determined, as it was still early, to endeavor to start 

 another fox, and one was got up at no great distance. He 

 broke cover near Col. Winston, who was riding a mule. The 

 cry of the dogs and cheers of the huntsmen stirred the 

 Colonel's blood, and vainly did he endeavor by voice, spur 

 and whip to awaken any interest on the part of the mule. A 

 gentleman in the narrow path behind urged him to move 

 forward, otherwise they would be left. His reply was: 

 "Don't mind me, sir, ride over me. When I am reduced to 

 the necessity of riding a mule fox hunting, do not hesitate 

 to ride over me." 



This fox, though a gray like the first, ran for several miles 

 m roads, and was caught within an hour from the time it 

 was started. I was riding a blooded filly I prized highlv, 

 and finding that I was riding her too hard I drew her in, and 

 suffered the fox, the dogs and the hunters to leave me be- 

 hind, and did not get up until the chase was over. 



The Sheriff, like most good sportsmen, has an amiable 

 weaknsss ior his own dogs, fully illustrated by the following 

 anecdote, related after the hunt by the secretary: 



The latter saw the hounds turn 'back, on one occasion, and 

 come up a valley toward him. He paused until fox and 

 hounds had swept by. He then observed the sheriff gallop- 

 ing after them and exclaiming to himself, "Dang it all, 

 Music is in the lead, Music is in the lead!" And, hat in 

 hand, he passed on, all unconscious of the secretary's 

 presence. The last chase ended near the hospitable residence 

 of Col. Winston, who invited all to his house, where they 

 partook of a splendid dinner and rehearsed the scenes of the 

 day. 



Thus ended one of the red-letter days of my life. A day 

 which opened balmy and bright and with all the soft loveli- 

 ness of spring; and which, having fullfilled all that it 

 promised with bounteous hand, closed in cloudless beauty. 



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>.OKTHsinu, Va. 



The interest taken this winter in fox hunting has created 

 a spirited rivalry in Calvert county, Md., between sportsmen 

 respectively, of the lower and upper districts. Quite an ex- 

 citing chase occurred in the vicinity of Chaneyville a short 

 time ago, and the Baltimore Sun gives this account of the 

 return test chase for the championship of the county for the 

 best fox dog, which was run a few days ago in the central 

 portion of the county: " It w as decided that the rendezvous 

 should be at Prince Frederick, aud gentlemen who ar- 



ranged to enter dogs for the hunt took rooms at the Prince 

 Frederick Hotel, where they were entertained during the in- 

 tervals of the chase by Mr. W. H. Dowell. It was quite late 

 during the first day before a fox was started, and it was 

 thought that the day would be a blank, when Looper, a fine 

 specimen of the southern Maryland fox dog, started from 

 some undergrowth a large gray fox, which came out of the 

 woods in full sight of the pack, having a start of about 

 75yds. Poldo, an upper district dog, took the lead slightly, 

 and the other dogs bunched. The dogs w r ere closing up the 

 gap rapidly when the fox entered some undergrowth again 

 and performed a feat to aid his escape seldom witnessed. A 

 large pine tree leaned near a bank at a convenient angle for 

 ascent, and being closely pressed, the fox ran up the trunk 

 of the tree a sufficient distance from the ground to escape 

 temporarily the hounds, which were running so rapidly that 

 they oven an the trail. The fox immediately doubled and 

 evaded the pack. In a few minutes they were back on the 

 track and captured the fox after nightfall. The chase is 

 described by one of the sportsmen as beiug one of the most 

 exciting that he had ever witnessed. The start, however, 

 was made too late to follow up, but one person, who chanced 

 on the course taken by the fox, happened at the finish. The 

 second day's hunt was engaged in by gentlemen from all the 

 neighboring sections. The meet was made at Prince Fred- 

 erick, aud the start in what is known as Bo wen's Neck. The 

 (Iol's scattered, and a double chase was the result of the 

 morning. Later in the day the pack again combined and 

 the chase extended several miles along the river farms 

 southward, and then struck aea'oss the country to a point 

 about live miles below where the meet had occurred. The 

 fox was "holed" near a church in the second district of the 

 county. A Large crowd assembled to discuss the respective 

 merits of the dogs engaged in the chase. The honors, how- 

 ever, were so well contested by the hounds of both sections 

 of the county that no definite conclusion could be arrived at 

 except that the work of several of the hounds on the second 

 day was almost faultless. Those who had entered dogs in 

 the chase were: T. 1. lirahame, L. L. Chancy, W. Z. How- 

 ard, Malcolm Giahame, Jas. B. Duke, Alex. Duke. W. H. 

 Dowell, W. A. Parrau, Thomas Stimmel, A bran) Bowell, 

 and many others. A return hunt in an open section of the 

 country is tiow beiug arranged, when the hunters will be 

 the guests of sportsmen of Chaneyville." 



HARE DOGS. 



IN your issue of Feb. 10, a correspondent asks for informa- 

 tion about hare dogs. Hare hunting has always been 

 my favorite sport, and I have tried a great many different 

 kinds of dogs. 



It is true that the ordinary foxhounds of New England and 

 Canada care little about hares and appear to lack the neces- 

 sary nose. The long-eared, slick-coated black and tan dogs 

 from Virginia and Pennsylvania are better, but are rather 

 tender for this climate. The English foxhound will run 

 hare in good shape as long as no foxes come in the way, and 

 will stand any amount of hardship; and a cross of either 

 breed on native stock will produce some good hare dogs if 

 broken especially for that purpose. I am now breeding a 

 medium-sized black and tan hound of mixed English, Vir- 

 ginian and native blood that seldom lose a hare and will 

 hunt them in preference to a fox; but we do the most of our 

 hunting here in October and November, and for these months 

 I prefer the English beagle. A good many sports think 

 them too slow, but for me there is uo better sport than to sit 

 on a log on a fine day and listen to three or four of the merry 

 little fellows as they double back and forth, and you are 

 pretty sure of a shot sooner or later, as a hare is never in a 

 hurry to leave the neighborhood when pursued by slow dogs. 

 Of course, anything under the standard is too small to run 

 on snow, but it is no trouble to breed them larger. 



If your correspondent wants to breed a medium sized re- 

 liable rabbit dog let him try the English harrier, they have 

 good nose and splendid voice and hare hunting is t heir trade. 

 As to the difficulty in following a hare, I think it depends 

 mainly upon the weather. Even a damp, muddy day m the 

 fall or a calm one with a little snow falling in winter, and I 

 have several dogs that will stay with a liare till the bell 

 rings. feBut take a cold, frosty morning, or bright sunny day 

 with high wind and they won't make much headway. There 

 is not much difference in scent between northern and south- 

 ern hares. Dogs brought here from Virginia act a little 

 awkward at first, but work all right in a few days. Brush. 

 Canada. 



The most suitable kind of hare dog for all weather is a 

 beagle with a dash of harrier in him: a hound from 15 to 

 18in. Such a dog, from my experience, will not refuse to 

 hunt in pretty deep snow, while the little beagle is only fit 

 for head ground or light tracking snows. With snow 10 or 

 lain, deep a beagle will soon come to heel and follow the 

 path you make. CANADA. 



In your issue of Feb. 17 I noticed an account of a rabbit 

 hunt with beagles, by W. S. Clark, of Linden, Mass. He 

 says that the beagles take hold and hunt well when they are 

 6mos. old. I would like to ask Mr. Clark i f his beagles Vive 

 tongue or bark on rabbit scent at (5mos. of age; if they do 

 they beat mine. I have two beagles 8mos. old. and have'had 

 them out several times and they are from good hunting 

 stock, but they give no tongue as vet, and I think bums, is 

 very early, is it not, for beagles to hunt well? His puppies 

 are very early hunters or mine are very late: which is it? If 

 a dog does not bark how are you going to tell , when he is out 

 of sight, whether he is hunting or not? I have hunted rab- 

 bits for twelve or fifteen years and have yet to see the puppy 

 that will hunt well at (linos, of age, or a dog that is smart 

 enough to catch a rabbit if he is not wounded. E. F. F. 



Canton, Mass. 



FOX-TERRIER STUD DOG STAKES- 

 "VTEW YORK, March 4.— Editor Forest and Stream: The 

 ±y entries to the Stud Dog Stakes of 1888, which is to be 

 judged at the spring show of the Westminster Keunel Club 

 of 1888, under the same conditions as the inaugural stake, 

 Which is to be judged at the specialty show of the American 

 Fox-Terrier Club, to be held next autumn.— AUGUST Bel- 

 mont, Jr., President A. F. T. C. 



stud DOfj stakes (Renewal). 



August Belmont, Jr.— Lucifer as in Pnesenti (Splinter— 

 Kohinoor), Bacchanal (The Belgravian— Bedlamite), Reso- 

 lute (Result— Diadem). Mcphisto (Hempstead -foe or Bac- 

 channal— Marguerite), Regent Vox (Tackier— Saudv Vic). 



Fred Hoey.— Valet (Venetian — Vinaigrette), Venetian 

 (Corinthian— Little Sweetheart), Luke (Mixture— Lyra). 



L. & W. Rutherfurd.— Splauger (Dickon— Sutton Veda), 

 Warren Jim (Diamond Joe— Diana). Spider (Splauger — 

 Diana). 



EDWARD Kei.lv.— Earl Leycester (Spice— Dame), Shovel 

 (Spider— Roseleaf) . 



John E. Thayer— Raby Mixer (Raby Mixture— Richmond 

 Olive), Mixture (Spice— Fairy III. ), Rabv Jack (Mixture- 

 Shame) Belgrave Primrose (Belgrave Jerrv— Wasp). 



ATLANTA SHOW.— Augusta, Ga., March 3.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream: In your paper of Feb. 17 are published 

 the awards at the Atlanta (Ga.) dog show. There is a mis- 

 print in the name of Mr. E. H. P. Scott's collie dog, the win- 

 ner of first prize. It is printed Burns but should be Burros, 



