Mat 14, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



POODLKS —White— BMcfies; 1st, Miss N. G-erichten's Belle. 

 Black— Pogs-: 1st, W. H. Ooleman's Faro; 2d and 3d, Mrs, E. A, 

 Fish's Nox and Leo. Bitches: Ist, Mrs. C. Gerichteu'a Gipsy. 



POMERANIANS— Ist, J, M. Home's Snowflako; 2d," Mrs. 

 Horue'B Fanny. 



The m'scellaneoTis classes did not appear for inspection. 



EGYPTIAN MUMMY OF A DOG. 



J'^OR the foHowing interesting account we are Indebted to 

 the Stock-Keeper, which in turn translated it from an 

 article by Ludwis Beckmann in the lUitsirlrte Zeltiniq: 



"In December, 1890, the author of these lines received from 

 a friend at Cairo the mummy of an animal which hRd been 

 found near Thebes, and was described as the 'mummy of a 

 cat': when, however; closely examined it turned out to be the 

 naummy of a dog, which must have been the size of a small 

 greyhound. Dog mummies are much scarcer than those of 

 eats, which ai-e often found in lurse quantities, and as they 

 differ from the latter in many material points, a description 

 of the before mentioned specimen will be of interest. No. 1 

 is an illustration of the front view of the mummy in the 



THE ENGLISH NATIONAL FIELD TRIALS. 



FROM the Canine World we learn that these trials were 

 run on the Aqualate Estate of Sir Thomas Boughey, 

 near Newport, Salop, when Captain the Hon. H. Molyneux, 

 Rev. W. Sergeantson, and Mr. Elias Bishop judged. On 

 Tuesday morning. April 31, a start was made at the Coley 

 Farm, and a very fine meet it was, although many had stayed 

 away, thinking there would be but little sport, because of 

 the scarcity of cover, the spring being backward. This 

 proved t" be true, for the wheat afforded no shelter for game, 

 and an adjournment was made to the low-lying meadows. 

 Sir Thomas Boughey, who acted as guide, philosopher and 

 friend to the party, soon showed some game, and the pointer 

 puppies were put down. They went at it with a will, and 

 on a glaring fault being made the brace was at once called 

 up: and so much game did they find in these heavily grassed 

 moors that the card had been run through before noon, 

 Whatever the ''ground game act" has done to lessen the 

 number of hares in other parts of this country, it seemingly 

 has not affected the lands owned by Sir Thomas. Hares 

 positively swarm here, and it was nothing to see half a score 

 in one small field, which is exceptional in the present day. 



state in which it was found. The colors as they appear nre 

 a dingy yellowish white and a deep asphalt brown, but pro- 

 bably thelips and eyes were formerly painted a different color. 

 The outer cover consists of a fine hut dense material, some- 

 thing between silk and linen. Besides this the front of the 

 body is covered with a flne network, made of stripcs of the 

 ."same delicate material in the shape of a bib. The bead with 

 the prick ears is formed artiticially of some material by 



Easting it on the real head, and where the bead joins the 

 ody a pii^ce of linen is wound around like a shawl. Itis 

 curious that on the whole cover no seam or any trace of 

 havinj? been tied with string can bo detected. The edges of 

 the dilJerent pieces of cloth are CHrefully turned in. and ap- 

 parently pressed down with a heavy object, probxbly a fl it 

 iron. The bib in front, and the bordering round the eyes 

 and lips, is formed in the same way. Besides the asphalt 

 some colorless glue seems to have been used for the white 

 cloth to stick it totcetber. 



Fig. 2 shows a side view of the mummy, and Fig. ,3 repre- 

 sents the same without its outer covers, the rump is wound 



rotmd and round with a long reed-band, consisting of many 

 single reeds, which are tjfd together by ppculiar knots. 

 After unwinding this band, the whole front side of the body 

 was found to be covered with layers of straight reeds, cut 

 off in different lengths to fill up the cavities of the body. 



Fig. 4 shoe's the mummy in its last, or rather first covering. 

 This consists of several crossed bands of a coarse material, 

 and under these is a still coarser stuff (like sackcloth), which 

 has been so impregnated with asphalt, that it forms with 

 the skin and the hair one thick black indissoluble crust. The 

 dog's real ears, which were pressed forward against the head, 

 have also partially amalgamated with this mass. 



Fig. 5 represents the body freed from all its coverings, the 

 fleshy parts have become in time a fine powderlike dust 

 which is heaped up in the cavities of the chest and abdomen. 

 The skeleton is mainly kept together by the dried and 

 shrivelled skin: all sinews and nerves have disappeared. The 

 bones, however, are very well preserved; the skull, Fie-. 6, can 

 hardly be distinguished from one lately prepared, but many 

 teeth show a tendency to split lengthways. To judge from 

 the appearance of the teeth the dog was about one year and 

 a half old. One fore-leg is somewhat crippled in consequence 

 of a badly-healed fracture. 



The proportions of the skeleton and the shape of the skull, 

 as well as the long and fine tail, lead to the conclusion that 

 it is the mummy of a small greyhound or a large black and 

 tan terrier. The illustration of the skull is reduced to sis- 

 tenths of the natural .size." 



DEATH OF MOLLY GLENDYNE. -.-Bristol, R. L — 



Editor Forest and Stream: Another good dog gone to the 

 happy hunting grounds. My Irish setter bitch Molly Glen- 

 dyne died May 8 of inflammation of the bowels. Molly 

 was an excellent bitch, grand color and very typical, having 

 won on the bench both in the States and in Canada. She 

 won second at Lynn th's spring, when heavy in whelp, as 

 she whelped nine dogs after. She was my favorite dog in 

 the field, and no bird ever got away from" Molly: when he 

 dropped, were he in thicket or stone wall, Molly would 

 locate him and fetch him out. She was all that a man 

 could de.sira for a shooting dos, and I shall miss her very 

 much. Fiist my shooting compfinion was laid at rest, and 

 liow it is my favorite dog.— M. Fltkn-, Jb. 



Birds were also plentiful, and a good many pheasants and a 

 couple of ducks were seen. Sir Thomas's estate is, indeed, 

 stocked with everything, from deer to pike, and it must be 

 a glorious sijot when The sporting season is on, albeit an 

 eyesore on his brondlands is the quantity of barbed wire 

 fencing. It seems that contrary to expectation Mr. Heywood 

 Lonsdale had some dogs ready after all, though Mr. Brails- 

 ford had, unfortunately, m"t with an accident and was un- 

 able to handle his dogs. He had a fall recently in getting 

 r'Ut of his dogcart, and has kept to his bed ever since. 

 Cameron, however, was on the spot, and gave a vei-y good 

 show. 



Mr. Fred Lowe, without whom no field trial company is 

 complete, got off very easily so far as work is concerned, 

 and his fir.st trials in both the Pointer and Setter Puppies' 

 stakes were over in a few minutes. It will be seen he got 

 into the money in the setter division with Di of Kippen, 

 who is spoken of as a nailing little bitch, Glenbeigh, han ■ 

 dl'^d by Nicholson, ma^ie a very good show, and cirried 

 aw <y the pointer prize to Ireland, besides winningthe special 

 for best of either breed. The dog worked splendidly, and 

 Mr. Moriarty's brother was greatly congr^.tulated in getting 

 their dog through to the top of a very good lot of dogs. Sir 

 Thomas Boughey's handler showed'some good work with 

 Comr ^d^ and Carmine, but it must be said that he had ex- 

 ceptional opportunities to break his dogs. After the card 

 had been fiuished on Taesdaj^ a match was run off. The 

 competitors w^ere Glenbeigh, who won, and Comrade, who 

 WHS placed third by the judges in the Pointer Puppy Stake. 

 They had along trial, and it was generally conceded that 

 Comrade had the better of it. 



In the Pointer Puppy Stakes there were 20 entries, rang- 

 ing fmra Mr. Lonsdale's entry at 10 to others at 15 months 

 old. The heats were of short duration, as game was so 

 plentiful, some of them not being more than four minutes 

 duration, a sort of running that with the memory of the 

 lone tramps over the hills round Lexington one can hardly 

 realize. The winners in this stake were: First— D. M. 

 Moriarty's liver and white dog Glfnbeigh, by Grouse V, — 

 Rita, 1.5 months old. Second— C. H. Back's liver and white 

 Busy Ben. by Rapid Ben— Busy, 12 months old. Third and 

 fourth — Sir Thomas Boughey's liver and white Comrade, by 

 Carlo— Bess, 14 months, and liver and white Carmine, by 

 Carlist— Blush, 13 months old. 



The Setter Puppy Stakes had 14 entries and was run off 

 the second day, and was especiallj' notable for the fact that 

 the only Irish setter in the stakes won the prize, doing some 

 excellent work. This must be very gratifying to Irish setter 

 men and will certainly do a great deal toward encouraging 

 our "Irishmen" to persevere. The winners were: First — 

 Rev. R. O'Callaghan's Irish setter Coloraine, by Fingal III. 

 — Aveline, 12 months old. Second— Col. C. T. Cotes's liver 

 and white English setter Dodger, by Dexter— Kate, 13 

 months old. Third— Fred C. Lowe's bliie belton Di of Kip- 

 pen, by Rhoderick of Kippen— Dido, 14 months old. 



On the third day, Thursday, the trial to decide the abso- 

 lute winner of the above stakes was run oft" between. 



GLENBEIGH (Pointer) Ajtd coleeadte (Irish Setter). 



These puppies were put down in a large grass meadow 

 close to the road. Both ranged freely, Coleraine quartering 

 her ground the more closely. Coleraine made a false point 

 and Glenbeigh backed. Then they kept pointing and draw- 

 ing on to where both partridge and pheasants had risen 

 from. In another grass field, with lots of cover, they worked 

 nicely, and Glenbeigh pointed close to the hedge, but noth- 

 ing came of it. He afterward drew on a hare which moved. 

 Another hare passed in front of them, to which Coleraine 

 dropped, and then she seemed to tire. Glenbeigh pointed a 

 bird, and Coleraine, refusing to back, took the point from 

 her. They were immediately called up, the pointer, of course, 

 winning. 



The Acton Reynauld Stakes were then run oft', for all-aged 

 pointers and setters. Each breed separate. In the Pointer 

 Stake there were four braces, drawn as follow.'?: 



C. H. Beck's liver and white Yum Yum, by Pordis— Quits' 

 Baby, oys.. 



against 



Sir Humphrey de Trafford's liver and white Barton Pearl, 

 by Teign— Dagmar, Sys. lOmos. 



A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale's liver and white Ighttield Deuce, 

 by Wynnstay— Dainty, oyrs., 



agaimt 



R. J. Lloyd-Price's liver and white Welsh Crab^ by Crab- 

 Joy, '^yrs. 



J. L. Bulled's liver and white Devonshire Lady, byMolton 

 Baron— The Village Star, 3yrs. 3mos., 

 (igainst 



J. H. Stock's liver and white Vixen, by Let— Minx, 5yrs. 



F. C. Lowe's liver and white Belle des Bordes, by Young 

 Bang— Polly, 7yrs. Imo. 



ucjainst 



Col. C. J. Cote's lemon and white Polly .lones, by Carlo - 

 Jenny Jones, 3ys. 



In this stake Ightfield Deuce, who it will be remembered 

 won the Pointer All-Aged Stake at the Central Trials last 

 fall, wa.s in the final heat running against Belle des Bordes, 

 and after a four-minute heat the latter won, with Vixen 

 reserve. In the Setter Stake, the dogs were drawn as follows: 

 .1. F. Hatfield Harter's black and white Marrow Bones, 

 by Master Sam— Blue Maud of Cranfield, 3yrs. 2mos., 

 against 



J. Bishop's black, white and tan Earl of Moira, by .Jock — 

 Little Bess, '2yrs. 3mos. 



R. LI. Purcell Llewellin's lemon, white and tan Jewel, by 

 Ben— Minna, lyr. Smos., 



agaimt 



F. Warde's liver and white Tutsham Trip, by Baron 

 Doveridge— Nora, oyrs. 



Dr. Wood's lemon belton Fred, by Prince— Moll IV., 4yrs., 



against 



W. H. Cooper's Wrestler, by MuskeiTv— Floss, 4yrs. 



The result of the running was in favor of Fred, with 

 Wrestler declared second best of either breed. Belle des 

 Bordes and Fred then ran off to decide the absolute winner. 

 After 16 minutes' work, neither having much advantage, 

 Fred was declaimed the winner. 



The Cloverley Stakes were then run. This was for braces. 

 Mr. Heywood Lonsdale's lehtfleld's Rosa and Ian, the latter 

 winner of the Setter Derby at Lexington, N. C, last year, 

 were entered in this stake, as also were his Ightfield Deuce 

 and Eaton. In their work in the first heat they evidently 

 pursued the same tactics that they were guilty of when over 

 here, as SlocH-Kecpcr says: 



"Dr. Heywood Lonsdale's setters Ightfield Rosa and Ight- 

 field Ian put down on the Co^ey Moors, where we st rted on 

 Tuesday. Both rnnniug clo.se together, ran intn birds and 

 then got several false points. Rosa being most at fault; 

 another flush and more false pointing, and then Rosa stood 

 bird.o, Ian backing. Rosa false pointed again, and the next 

 brace were calhd tor. 



"Mr. Heywood Lonsdale's Ightfield Deuce and Ightfield 

 Elton, liver ticked pointers, worked by Hallam, were put 

 down in the adjoining grass. Deuce pointed and then false 

 pointed, and Eaton refused to back, but found a bare, which 

 stood looking him in the face for almost a minute. Deuce 

 moved on and stood the birds she was first drawing on. 

 Both ranged freely. Eaton going rather wide. Deuce again 

 pointed and Eaton backed, but "nothing came of it. Then 

 Deuc(^ flushed badly, and a pair got up which both had 

 passed. Deuce pointed again, and Eaton deliberately passed 

 close by without backing, the latter seeming to have a great 

 preference for the hedgerows. Another bird got up which 

 both bad passed. A move was then made to the moors, on 

 which we had such giod trials on the Tuesday and Thurs- 

 day. Birds could be seen from the road running about in 

 all directions. Eaton false pointed, and Deuce backed, then 

 both false pointed. In the next moor Deuce made another 

 false point, and Eaton backed. Deuce found birds, and 

 Eaton, who was evidently out of sorts, backed, and the next 

 brice was called for." 



As we have not space to spare, and our readers being 

 naturally only interested in the dogs they know of, we can 

 not give the account of the other heats. Mr. Lewellyn 

 Price's brace, Coquet B., by Dashing Bondhu— Duchess 

 Primrose, and Bell Bondhu. by Dashing Bondhu— Duchess 

 Placid, eventually won the stake and were said to hvtve been 

 very skillfully bandied by their owner. Mr. Heywood 

 Lonsdale's brace, Ightfield Deuce and Eaton, securing 

 second prize, and Mr. Lowe's brace, Belle des Bordes and 

 Ben of Kipppn, third. 



The breaker's prize was awarded to Hallam, Mr. Lons- 

 dale's breaker, though the judges said that had the prize 

 been open to all Mr. Leweli\n Price would have been en- 

 titled to it for the magnificent manner in which he worked 

 the winning brace. 



DOG CHAT. 



THE large number of grand field dogs which are this sea- 

 son being added to the California kennel interests, says 

 the Breeder and Sportsman, is arousing new interest and 

 life in sporting circles Mr. Henry Huber, the owner of 

 that grand acquisition, Duke of Vernon, has commissioned 

 Dr. Buzzard [no doubt this is intended for Dr. Glover, who 

 negotiated the sale of Duke] to purchase the grandest pointer 

 bitch that money can procure. Such action is commendable 

 in the highest degree, and his example will no doubt lead 

 other sportsmen to look for the best. Californians have one 

 pointer, at least, of which they may well be proud, for there 

 are many frequenters of bench shows here in the East who 

 think Duke of Vernon the best all-round pointer in America 

 to-day. 



We do not, of course, know who "Aloin" is who writes for 

 the Breeder and Sportsman, but he evidently cannot speak 

 from personal experience. He says "there is" one grievous 

 fault to find at most shows, and that is the careless, slipshod 

 way most of the veterinarians have of attending to their 

 duties. Dogs showing strong and conclusive symptoms of 

 contagious and infectious diseases are allowed to be benched 

 to the great detriment of the show and the needless loss of 

 valuable dogs. When will this be stopped?" This may 

 have and has been the case in past seasons, but we are quite 

 sure that during this spring circuit of shows a cleaner or 

 healthier lot of dogs could not have been shown. The agita- 

 tion in the kennel press a year or two since did good work, 

 and with very few, if any, exceptions the "vets" this year 

 have been lynx-eyed enough for all practical purposes. LTa- 

 warranted assertions of this sort are apt to do a great deal of 

 harm in giving the outside public an idea that dog shows are 

 hotbeds of disease. 



The new dog law for Pittsburgh, Pa., should have gone 

 into effect on April 39, and this provides that s\ be 

 levied on all dogs and -Sa on each bitch; but as there was not 

 enough money in the trea.sury for the purpose of buying 

 license tags and blank forms," the time was extended till 

 May 15, when the municipal law will go into force. Every 

 dog found without a license will entail a fine of 8,5 on the 

 owner of said wanderer. A dog pound has been arranged 

 with fifty kennels in a stable, and in addition to this 100 

 dry goods boxes have been purchased to accommodate the 

 transients. Doss not claimed in two days will be killed. 

 This plan is a gi-eat improvement on the one in vogue in that 

 city some time since, when the police were empowered to 

 shoot unlicensed dogs on sight, and several uncalled for and 

 cruel deeds were committed by the men in blue. 



The idea of holding a grand specialist show is agitating 

 the minds of English exhi'ntors just now. As there are 

 some forty clubs devoted to different breeds, it will be easily 

 seen that if the clubs can be brought together and all jeal- 

 ousy eliminated, a show on a gigantic scale never before 

 attempted, could be the result. Some such idea was mooted, 

 over here last summer, and we still thuik that in the fall 



