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MONT AND BENDIGO. 

 was then ruu. Cast off at 2:56. Some time after starting 

 Mont, in stubble, pointed and Bendigo backed, when Aldrich 

 put. up 8 bevy, shot both barrels and killed, but Mont could 

 nOt find, Then Bendigo at edge of woods-; pointed, when a 

 hevy flushed wild almost at the same moment. Bii'dswere 

 followed but could not be picked up, for the only work done 

 was a false, point by each dog. A great deal of pottering 

 work was indulged in, both dogs backing and filling too 

 much, neither getting out and ranging far ahead, though 

 Bendigo had the pace and range of the other. The Setter 

 Stake was then resumed with the 



Third Scries. 



FANNIE M, AND FRED GATES. 



Down at 4:30, both started off well in marked contrast to 

 the dogs in the preceding heat. In thick grass in fiis, Fannie 

 pointed fur and a rabbit was started. Fred then got a good 

 point on a, bevy, Fannie backed, when birds flushed wild. 

 Then he got aubther in the firs, when Rose flushed the birds, 

 shot and missed. Further down in woods, in swampy 

 ground, Fred pointed, Rose flushed birds and shooting, 

 missed again. As it was getting dusk, dogs were then ordered 

 up at 5:15. Fred Gates won. Both ranged out well and 

 are about equal in style. Home was now the welcome order 

 the finish being some two miles from town. 



Saturday. 

 GORDON STAKE, 

 Proceedings opened with the second series of this stake 

 all dogs with the ex.cept.iou of Kim? item being left in. 



. BELMONT AND COUNTESS R05EY 

 were the first two down at 9:05 in a field near the Grimes 

 house, four miles from town. The weather was pleasant, 

 though frosty, aud pretty cold for slow riding. After ten 

 minutes' traveling at edge of woods where the turkeys got 

 up the other day. Belmont pointed and Countess backed 

 when Tallmau flushed some birds, the balance of birds 

 flushing as the judges came up. A move was made after 

 these birds which had flown over the railroad track. Countess 

 was the first to catch up with them, pointing at edge of 

 woods, then moved on, and pointing again, a single flushed. 

 Belmont backed unsteadily. After going through woods, 

 dogs being unable to locate birds, we moved on into the 

 open, and after trotting round for some distance dogs were 

 ordered up at 9:35, when Belmont won the heat. 



BEAUMONT AND MONT. 

 This was the most tedioits heat we have so far experienced. 

 Down at 9:41 in ragweed and sedge, Beaumont ranged off the 

 best, showing; that his rest had done him good, We turned 

 hither and thither, the judges doing almost as much search- 

 ing for birds as the dogs, who seemed most of the time to be 

 imbued with the idea they were out for a little pleasure 

 exercise, making rings round their handlers most of the 

 time. This sort of thing continued over an hour, when. Beau- 

 mont managed to walk into a. bevy, but dropped to winy. 

 As there seemed no chance of them finding birds, dogs were 

 ordered tip at 10:57 and the judges reserved their decision 

 till the dogs could be put on birds 



BENDIGO AND GORDO 



were then put down at 11 o'clock in cornfield. After a lot of 

 ranging without a sign of birds, dogs were taken up at 11:30 

 and put down further on, when Bendigo pointed a single, 

 Gordo backing. Tallman flushed, shot aud killed. Bendigo 

 at the flush broke in a yard or two, but stopped to order. 

 Bendigo sent to retrieve bird, failed to find. Tallman 

 eventually picked it up. Then Gordo flushed birds in bottom, 

 and dogs were ordered up at 11:31. Bendigo showed better 

 range, style and nose. The Setter All-Aged Stake was now 

 continued. Mr. Nesbitt had Kate Miller ready to run, but 

 Mr. Barker, who was handling Prince Lucifer, protested 

 her being allowed to run, as she was in season. Protest al- 

 lowed aud Kate Miller withdrawn. This brought the bye 

 dog Princess Beatrice, who had already started off to run 

 the bye, up with Prince Lucifer. 



PRINCE LUCIFER AND PRINCESS BEATRICE. 

 Cast off at 11:51 in stubble. Prince soon pointed and was 

 held on his point to give Beatrice a chance to back, when a 

 single flushed, and then Barker put up the balance of bevy, 

 shot and killed, and Prince retrieved nicely. Further on in 

 bottom Beatrice made game and despite the whistling of 

 her handler would not be denied, and working into some 

 briers pointed and birds flushed, Tallman going in put up 

 another bird which he killed. In swamp, covered with 

 bushes, Beatrice was lost when Judge Wallace found her on 

 a point and a single flushed, then the rest of a bevy got up. 

 Prince was brought up and both turned into woods after 

 birds. High up in the woods Prince pointed twice on sin- 

 gles and Beatrice flushed a single. Dogs were ordered up 

 and heat awarded to Prince Lucifer. Every one by this 

 time felt as if some lunch would not be amiss and all turned 

 toward the farmhouse, half a mile distant. After lunch 



SIMONIDES AND NANNIE B. 

 were put down to conclude the third series at 1:15. Soon 

 Nannie pointed a bevy, left her point, and coming up to the 

 other side flushed. In woods Nannie pointed false, Simon- 

 ides backing indifferently. Simonides then flushed a single 

 and Nannie pointed false again. In stubble. Simonides 

 pointed a bevy and Nannie backed nicely. Then Simonides 

 in the open pointed another bevy, which Rose put up, shot 

 and missed. Dogs were then ordered up at 1:43, Simonides 

 being returned the winner. 



GORDON STAKE. 



Second Series. 



BEAUMONT AND MONT. 

 These two were put down again at 3:01 on the scattered 

 birds from previous heat to decide their heat of the morn- 

 ing. Beaumont was the first to get scent and pointed a 

 single, acting somewhat unsteady. They were then ordered 

 up and a decision rendered in favor of Beaumont. 



Third Series. 



BELMONT AND BENDIGO. 

 Down at 2:30. Soon in some woods Bendigo on dry leaves 

 flushed a bevy. Birds were followed but dogs failed to 

 locate. Each then pointed a single, when dogs were ordered 

 up and Bendigo was given the heat. Beaumont had run a 

 bye at the same time. 



Final Scries. 



BENDIGO AND BEAUMONT. 

 Cast off at 3:24, they ranged around here and there for a 

 long time without finding anything, when at last Bendigo 

 pointed a bevy, and sent on he flushed a bird. They were 

 ordered up at*3:54, when the first prize was awarded to Ben- 

 digo, owned by C. M. Hunt, of Palmyra, New York. He is 

 a big, rangy-looking dog with fair speed for a Gordon, and 

 quite young yet, some eighteen months old only. Gordo 

 and Beaumont were selected to run for second place on 

 Monday. 



ALL-AGED SETTER STAKE. — Fourth Series. 



SIMONIDES AND PRINCE LUCIFER. 



These two were cast off at 4:07. Si monides soon pointed in 

 a cornfield. Moved on and two birds flushed. Then he 

 stopped either to a point or a flush, which, could not be 

 .decided, then rest of bevy dashed wild;, Saiue distance fur- 

 ther Simonides pointed a single. Then Prince pointed a 

 dove. In some pines Simonides pointed, drew on, but failed 



to loeate. Both dogs wereroading when Simonides flushed 

 a bevy and then pointed. Then he pointed again and roaded 

 about 20yds. to the left, turned, and going back flushed a 

 bevy. In bottom Prince pointed false. Then Prince scored 

 two' good points on singles. At the sa .me time as Prince's last 

 point, Simonides pointed a bevy: Rose flushed, shot and 

 killed, Simonides retrieving nicely. After this Prince 

 pointed, but failed to locate. Dogs were theu ordered up at 

 5:07. Judgmen t was held over till Monday, th ough su fncient 

 work was done to show a little balance in Simooides's favor. 

 Rauge and pace about equal, but Simonides hunts out his 

 ground with more judgment; but style is in Prince's favor. 



Lexington, N. O, Monday, Dec. 15.— The meet this morn- 

 ing was at Irvin's farm, seven miles distant from town. 

 Weather was bright and frosty, wind northeast. The first 

 brace down was 



PRINCE LUCIFER AND SIMONIDES, 

 the undecided of Saturday evening. Both dogs started off 

 at a good gait, quartering a very large field in good style. 

 After ranging around till 9:37 without finding birds, the 

 dogs were ordered up and judges consulting gave the heat 

 to Prince Lucifer. The judges based their decision no doubt 

 on account of Prince's better speed and style. The heat for 

 second place in the 



GORDON STAKE, 

 BEAUMONT AND GORDO, 

 was then run off, dogs being cast off at 9:45 where the others 

 had been taken up. If an ordinary day's shooting means to 

 go slow, these two filled the bill, for they just trotted round 

 their handlers never more than a few yards distant. Then 

 ranging out somewhat better they passed a bevy which was 

 flushed by the handlers. Mr. Davidson then grew sarcastic 

 aud suggested that Cameron give his dog his gun and bunt 

 for the birds himself. Beaumont in woods then pointed 

 and moved on. Dogs roaded on but failed to locate. Taken 

 out of woods aud put down in ragweed again, the dogs then 

 passed another single which judges flushed. Gordo flushed 

 one at edge of woods and then stopped when another got up; 

 Beaumont backed to order. Tallman then stumbled across 

 a single. Dogs then pottered around in some brie rs, and 

 were taken up and put down at edge of woods. Working 

 through woods without rinding anything, dogs were ordered 

 up at 10:15 and judges consulted, but no decision arrived at, 

 and dogs ordered on in woods after the first scattered birds. 

 After a lot of nosing around Beaumont pointed a single in 

 a heap of sticks which Tallman flushed, dog steady to wing. 

 Dogs were then ordered up at 10:31. Gordo having strayed 

 off to one side was brought up later. Beaumont was 

 awarded the heat and second prize, Gordo and Mont divid- 

 ing third. 



SUMMARY— GORDON ST A KE. 



First Scries. 

 King Item (Item Kennels), Little Boy— Roxie, 

 •to/Mi 



BELMONT (Beaumont Kennels), Dasher— Blanche IV. 



Beaumont (Beaumont Kenucls), Ronald III.— Floss. 

 i villi 



GORDO (J. L. Campbell), Royal Duke— Noiah. 



Mont (Dr. Tillinghast), Tom— Perley, 

 with 



Bendigo (Claire-Reeta Kennels), Ben Nevis— Blanche IV. 



Countess Rome (Item Kennels), Little Boy— Roxie, a 

 bye. 



Second Scries. 

 Belmont beat Countess Roxie. 

 Beamont beat Mont. 

 Bendigo beat Gordo, 



'Third' Series. 

 Bendigo beat Belmont. 

 Beaumont a bye. 



Finals. 



Bendigo beat Beaumont and won first prize. 

 Beaumont beat Gordo, winning second prize. 

 Gordo and Mont divided third prize. 



ALL-AGED SETTER STAKE. 

 Final. 



PRINCE LUCIFER AND FRED GATES 

 were put down in ragweed to run for first place. Cast off 

 at 10:46, Prince Lucifer started off the faster. It was not 

 more than five minutes when Prince pointed, and Fred 

 coming up backed stylishly, making a pretty picture. 

 Barker flushed the birds, shot aud wounded: both dogs 

 steady. On, after scattered birds in wooded hollow, Prince 

 retrieved the bird Barker was thought to have missed. 

 Fred, at edge of woods further on, pointed and Prince 

 backed in good style; nothing found. On in woods Prince 

 pointed, theu moved on. Dogs were then taken up out of 

 woods, when directly Prince pointed in fine style, Fred 

 backing; Prince was ordered on and found the bevy a few 

 yards ahead, flushed; both dogs steady to wing. Dogs were 

 then held up to cross a ravine. Put down on other side 

 Prince pointed a bevy and Barker flushed, though Fred 

 looked as if he had it, as he went in and stopped first. Dogs 

 then held up, and passing through some sedge in a hollow, 

 judges flushed a bevy of fully twenty birds. Cast off 

 again some distance further on in sedge, and after ranging 

 over a field or two, dogs were ordered up at 11:36, and 

 judges consulting awarded the heat and first prize to Prince 

 Lucifer. Princess Beatrice, Antonio and Simonides were 

 to run against each other to decide which should run with 

 Fred Gates for second place. 



PRINCESS BEATRICE AND ANTONIO 

 were then put down at 11:40 in open field. Beatrice ranged 

 off wide on start and was lost to handler for a few minutes. 

 On in sedge Antonio pointed, and Beatrice coming up, 

 backed, when Avent flushed a bevy, shot and missed; both 

 steady. After scattered birds, Antonio pointed in briers. 

 Soon after, lower down in same patch, Antonio pointed and 

 Avent flushed two birds. Sent on Beatrice dropped in grass 

 and then moved on, at same time lower down Antonio 

 pointed, but Avent could find nothing. Then dog roaded on. 

 and afterward, to one side, pointed again and moved on! 

 Ranging out, dogs were soon after ordered up at 13:13. 

 Judges consulted some time and then announced both dogs 

 thrown out of second place. Antonio did the best work, 

 Princess Beatrice not paying sufficient heed to her handler, 

 ranging off to please herself, in contrast to the work she had 

 so far done in previous heats. To run for second place Sim- 

 onides and Fred Gates were then selected. 



SIMONIDES AND FRED GATES. 

 Cast off at 13:20. neither started off fast. Both dogs were 

 handled by D. E. Rose. Soon after starting Fred Gates was 

 lost for ten minutes or more, eventually coming to handler. 

 Both on again in sedge. Fred was soon lost again. This 

 time he could not be found, and we all had lunch in the 

 open. Then after the judges had tried to find Fred they re- 

 turned at 3:05 and announced Simonides as the winner and 

 Antonio and Fred Gates divide third prize, though for 

 hunting off like that and not having been found yet at 

 6 P. M., he ought to have been thrown out. 

 The heat for absolute winner of All-Aged Stake between 

 PRINCE LUCIFER AND iGHTFIELD DEUCE 



was now run. Dogs being cast off at 8:59 in stubb le, both 



started off fast. After ranging over several fields Prince 

 Lucifer at the edge of woods pointed, then drew on, pointed 

 again, Barker failed to find the birds, Deuce backing. Then 

 Deuce winded these birds at the other side of a, branch in 

 oaks, pointed, then roaded on to a staunch point, when 

 Brailsford coming up a single flushed and he shot, the 

 balance of bevv rose; in the meanwhile Prince Lucifer 

 backed nicely. Sent on after scattered birds, in briers at 

 edge of wood's, Deuce dropped to a point aud Prince follow- 

 ing up neai'ly stepped on him before whirling to a back. A 

 single was flushed and Brailsford shot and missed, Then 

 Deuce outside of woods, in grass dropped to a point, then 

 moved on again. Then in swamp and thick brush Prince 

 pointed a bird, Barker shot aud missed. Sent on in sedge 

 grass, then into pines Prince pointPd, but nothing found and 

 Deuce coming up pointed to one side of him, Prince ordered 

 on to locate, his handler refused because Deuce was pointing 

 the birds, then Deuce moved on to locate himself, though 

 ordered held, and some birds were flushed. 



Then Prince came up and pointed again almost in same 

 place as Deuce, and sent on the balance of bevy flushed 

 ahead. Then Deuce roaded to a flush at edge of wheat, a 

 few yards further on. In corn Prince then pointed false. 

 On in some fields Prince pointed again in ragweed, drew on, 

 pointed again, moved up and finally located the birds, 

 which Barker flushed, shot and killed.'Prince retrieving in 

 good style. At edge of woods Deuce dropped to a flush on a 

 bevy, then moved on, and working ai'ross the field again, 

 dogs were ordered up at 3:41 and the heat and All-Aged 

 Stake awarded to Prince. Lucifer. There was hardlv enough 

 work done to decide so important a heat, though I suppose 

 Deuce's last flush spoilt her chance. 



Prince Lucifer is a big, rather coarse dog, good bone, good 

 action and is a free ranger, making few mistakes. 



SUMMARY— ALL- AGED SETTER STAKE. 

 The first series with names of owners and pedigrees has 

 already been given. 



Second Series. 

 Fred Gates beat Natalie II. 

 Prince Lucifer beat Sam Miller. 

 Kate Miller beat Antonio. 

 Simonides beat Lilly Burgess. 

 , Nannie B. beat Cassio. 

 Princess Beatrice beat Harry C. 

 Fannie M. a bye. 



Third Series. 

 Fred Gates beat Fannie M. 

 Prince Lucifer heat Princess Beatrice. 

 Simonides beat Nannie B. 

 Kate Miller thrown out, being in season. 



Finals. 



Prince Lucifer beat Simonides. 



Prince Lucifer beat Fred Gates and won first prize. 



Simonides beat Fred Gates and won second prize. 



Antonio aud Fred Gates divide third prize. 



At the bench show for the Lorillard medals Mr. Tallman 

 judged and awarded the medal for best dog to Geo. Ewing's 

 Rowdy Rod, and that for best bitch to Frank Windholz's 

 Princess Beatrice. 



To-night the drawing for the four-hour race takes place. 



H. W. L. 



[Special to Forest and Stream ] 



Lexington, N. O, Dec. 16.— The first brace down this 

 morning was Rowdy Rod and Chance. Weather raw and 

 chilly, wind northeast. Bradley bandied Rowdy and Avent 

 Chance. Dogs cast off at 8 A. M. in field near town. Both 

 dogs ranged well out and kept up a good steady gait till 

 near the finish, when doubtless the heavy rain affected 

 them. Rowdy showed best sense and picked out the birds 

 better than his opponent. A great deal of ground was cov- 

 ered, chiefly in the open, and the race resulted in Rowdy 

 finding five bevies and four singles to Chance's two bevies 

 aud four singles. Chance showed best style, and if any- 

 thing was going the stronger at finish. Both pointed false 

 several times. Ordered up at 13 o'clock. After consultation 

 Rowdy Rod was awarded the heat. 



It began to rain about 11, and as after lunch it showed no 

 signs of clearing, the welcome order for home was given. 

 Nannie B. and Daisy Hope will go down in the morning if 

 it clears up, Fred Gates was found at 6 o'clock last night, 

 having returned to the home he started from. 



AS. TO WHITE WONDER.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I noticed last week in your paper a communication from the 

 Messrs. Harris in regard to the bull-terrier White Wonder, 

 which dog I protested against at the last Boston show on 

 account of deafness. The letter inclosed from Mr. Fred'k 

 Hinks, of Birmingham, Eng., in reality proves nothing that 

 is pertinent to the case. I should like the Messrs. Harris 

 to answer fairly and honestly a few questions. Why was 

 the dog entered at Boston as Beryl on April 1-4. and then at 

 Buffalo two weeks later as White Wonder? Did the Messrs. 

 Harris purchase the dog knowing him to be deaf, or did they 

 buy the dog believing him to be sound? Do they claim now 

 that the dog is not deaf, or that he was not deaf' at the last 

 Boston show (leaving aside the decision of the know-nothing 

 Boston vet.)? Does Mr. Hinks claim that the dog is not 

 deaf? By making an explanation, which I trust will be a 

 satisfactory one, the whole matter can be settled once and 

 for all. At present matters do not look right. I trust that 

 the Messrs. Harris will understand that I bear them no ill 

 will and that I give them credit for owningj in my humble 

 opinion, the best bull-terrier ever iu America, barring the 

 one defect— deafness.— E. Sheffield Porter (New Haven, 

 Dec. 13). 



"GYPSY."— The story of a stray puppy, which blundered 

 into a home happier than it had any right to hope for, which 

 lived a brief life of canine felicity and died a death all too 

 early — there would not seem to be anything in that of especial 

 human interest, and certainly not enough to warrant, the 

 writing of a volume of canine biography. Yet "Gypsy," a 

 plain Chicago dog, neither a Napoleon nor an Adonis among 

 dogs, has reached the fine immortality of a monument in 

 black and white, and is the subject of an obituary tribute, 

 in the little book of the above name, of which neither the 

 departed dog nor the living authors need be ashamed. Mrs. 

 Helen Ekin Starrett and Mrs. Frances Power Cable, both 

 Chicago ladies, are the authors of the little book marked 

 plain "Gypsy," Mrs. Cable contributing the introduction to 

 the work, ft is a graceful way in which these two ladies 

 ask us to pause a moment iu the hard business of life and 

 reflect what there may be in so common a thing as the life 

 of a little dog. Few books are more unusual, we may well 

 think, than this one, and perhaps many would be forgotten 

 sooner by such readers as have ever looked into the one 

 fathomless, unspeakable and unalterable affection— that 

 which lies deep in the eyes of a dog.— E. HOUGH. 



STOLEN.— On Friday night, 13th inst., five dachshund 

 puppies, about six months old, four of which are tan color 

 and one black. One of the tans has a short, crooked tail. 

 The thief came here in a wagon, broke open the stable door 

 and took the lot. nothing else, and left his "jimmy" behind, 

 If auy fellow, fancier should see or hear anything' of them, 

 he will confer a favor by wiring me, —J. M. Fbonembld, Jb; 

 (Wayne. P»;>, 



