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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 13, 1896. 
did strike, for it seemed for a time as if the dark waters 
of that hole had suddenly become filled with streaks of 
miniature lightning. 
After that fish became thoroughly woke up I never ex- 
pected to land him, but finally did. It was his own fault, 
however, for he swallowed not only the hook, but a good 
portion of the line as well. He proved to be the finest 
trout I had ever taken, and weighed just loz. under l^lbs. 
I took one more out of this hole of about ilb. weight, and 
enticed six or eight more from their watery element 
before reaching the end of the canon. Some under the 
limit I returned. 
At the further end of the canon I entered the open 
meadow beyond, selected a soft seat under the odorous, 
wide-spreading branches of a large apple tree and ate 
lunch. Then I spent an indolent hour lying under the 
tree. The low drone of insects mingling with the tink- 
ling melody of the brook, the sweet blossom-scented air 
and the warm, bright sunshine caused such a languor to 
steal over my senses that I felt I would be contented to 
lie there forever. Using a much- quoted expression, 
surely "It is not all of fishing to fish;" for, as I lay with 
half-closed, dreaming eyes, there stole upon my drowsy 
vision, from out a distant frame of verdant boughs, the 
peaceful sight of one of those cradles of our nation's 
greatness, a small country schoolhouse. Floating from 
the white flagstaff and outlined against the azure sky, the 
clean stripes and blue, star-studded field of "Old Glory" 
rippled on the gentle breeze, and the far-away voices of 
happy, robust children at play under its protecting folds 
drifted on the air. 
I emptied the creel and found that I had lured fourteen 
trout from their natural element. Considering the pre- 
vailing conditions of the weather, the day being perfectly 
clear, I had enjoyed unusual succpss for this section. 
While the trout in this brook are not numerous nor large 
(as they run), still their bright, gem-like markings and 
perfect contour of form cannot be excelled. 
I had fished but a short distance from the apple tree 
when I arrived at a place where the stream, compressed 
between two ledges, narrows to a width of not over 2ft. 
The water rushes through this narrow sluiceway and 
falls a distance of 3 or 4ft, , then tumbles and swirls over 
a boulder-strewn bottom for quite a stretch- Seven trout 
were induced to come forth from their boulder homes 
and join those already in the creel before I left the spot. 
From here on I fished with varying reward through a 
succession of pleasant meadows and under drooping 
boughs, or lingered here and there to examine some 
strange flower, plant or other feature of nature. Call it 
selfishness or what you will, but it has always seemed to 
me that in order to thoroughly enjoy a day's trout fish- 
ing one should ally one's self as closely with nature as 
one can, and in no other manner can this be done so well 
as by being alone. A close communion with nature in 
my estimation is the principal essential of enjoyment to 
be obtained from a trip of this kind, so I almost always 
manage to be companionless on such an occasion. 
Evening had spread her shadowy mantle over the east- 
ern slopes of the semi-mountains in the west when I 
finally arrived at the road where my wife with the horse 
and buggy patiently awaited my coming. Her eyes grew 
large with surprise when she saw the thirty-two beauties 
that filled the creel, the result of the beBt day's trout fish- 
ing I ever enjoyed. 
We drove home through a paradise of blossoms, which 
cast their delicious fragrance on the air. Just as we 
pntered the door of the old farmhouse the weird gurgle 
of a screech owl welled from a nearby swamp to mingle 
with the first whippoorwill call, a greeting to the cres- 
cent moon that hung in the spangled heavens just above 
the rim of the low, shadowy mountains in the west. 
Wm. H. Avis. 
June 2, 1896. 
Round Mountain Lake. 
EasTis, Me., June 1.— The Mohawk Fishing Club, a 
party of gentlemen from Boston and Haverhill, Mass., 
have been at Edgar Smith's Camps, at Round Mountain 
Lake for a ten days' outing, and found the fishing all that 
could be desired. They report fine catches on lake and 
streams, and seeing plenty of game. 
One of their number succeeded in bringing down a fine 
bear. Three or four have been seen in the locality of Eus- 
tie and along the stage lines in the woods throughout the 
Dead River region. Sportsmen are wide awake now for 
such chances, and while bruin is lunching upon some 
poor unfortunate horse, victim of the winter's logging ac- 
cidents, he needs to be on the alert for the jaws of a steel 
trap or a bullet from a .45-90 rifle in the hands of some 
patient yet ambitious sportsman. 
Grouse are very plentiful and all signs point to lively 
hunting for the autumn. Deer are down from the heights 
and are coming into the lake at all hours of the day in 
large numbers. J. 
Forest and Stream Fishing Postals. 
Drop ua a line about the trout or bass, and where to take them- 
Mr. C. C. Peterson, of the Big Fish, Machias and Pratt 
Lakes and Greenlaw Stream Camps, reached via Ashland, 
Me., writes us: "Mr. Eugene Delano and Mr. William 
Adams Brown arrived here May 23 In four days' fishing 
they caught fifty-two fish weighing 75ibs., ranging from 
ilb. to 81bs. apiece. F. A. McNally and Ira McKay were 
guides, and your correspondent cook. They caught the 
greater part of them at Big Fish Lake. 
he Mmtwl 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each iveck on 
Tuesday, Correspondence intended for publication 
should reach us at the latest by Monday, and as much 
earlier as practicable. 
FIXTURES 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 7 to 11. Rhode Island State Fair Association's fourth annual 
show, Providence, R. L 
8ept. 7 to 11. — Toronto Exhibition Association's eighth annual show, 
Toronto, Can. C. A. Stone, Sec'y of bench show. 
Sept. 22 to 24.— Milwaukee Kennel and Pet Stock Association's second 
annual dog show, Milwaukee. W. W. Welch, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIAL8. 
Sept. 2.— Morris, Man.— Manitoba Field TrialB Club. John Wootton, 
Sec'y. 
Sept. 7.— Kennedy, Minn.— Continental Field Trial Club's chicken 
trials. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Oct. 9.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual meet. Bradford S. Turpin, 
Sec'y. 
Oct. 26.— Hempstead, L. I.— Natioonal Beagle Club's trials. Geo. 
W. Rogers, Sec'y, 250 W. Twenty-second stre*t, New York. 
Oct. 28.— Greene county, Pa.— The Monongahela Valley Game and 
Fish Protective Association's second annual trials. S. B. Cummings 
Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Nov. 2.— Bicknell, Ind.— Continental Field Trial Club's quail trials. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y. 
Nov. 2.— Oxford, Mass.— New England Beagle Club's trials. W. S. 
Clark, Sec'y, Linden, Mass. 
Nov. 10— Columbus, Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's trials. Louis 
Steffen, Sec'y, Milwaukee. 
Nov. 10. — Leamington, Ont.— Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leaming- 
ton, Ont. 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— E. F. T. Club's trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, 
Greenfield Hill, Conn. 
Nov. 17.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field Trial Club's trials. 
W. B. WellB, Sec'y, Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 28.-Newton, N. C.-U. S. F. T. Club's fall trials. W. B. Staf- 
ford, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIAL AND BENCH 
JUDGES. 
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Present Entrance on Leonard Street l| 
New York. — Editor Forest and Stream: The recent 
carping on the bench show judges who acted in Califor- 
nia and the many flings at field trial judges have set me 
to thinking, and while the impulse was on I thought I 
would write you a letter on this subject. 
As to the California troubles now in ferment, it seems 
an amusing situation. It is only a year or two since Cal- 
ifornia had any bench show dogs, and now her mushroom 
authorities have the audacity to set Mr. Mortimer right 
in his judging, and as proof positive of their correctness 
they cite the reversals of some of his awardB by Mr. J. 
Otis Fellows. How amusing! Here in the East few of us 
would think that Mr. Mortimer was wrong because good 
"Uncle Dick" reversed him. We would rather think that 
Uncle Dick had blundered in that case. Mr. Mortimer is 
recognized as an all-round judge; Uncle Dick hardly 
such. It is with only the kindliest feeling toward Uncle 
Dick that I say I believe that, set him to judge after any 
other judge and if he were judging a whole show, he 
would reverse anyone's judgments, be that one Mason or 
Raper or Mortimer. That Uncle Dick gave satisfaction is 
a pleasure to all; that his decisions are to be taken as con- 
clusive in reversing Mr. Mortimer, no one this side of the 
Rocky Mountains will believe. 
I observe with some regret that there is a disposition 
among a few to ascribe the decadence of field trials to the 
partiality of judges. It is true that the judges have been 
the cause or much discontent. They have unkindly 
awarded prizes many times contrary to the opinions of 
owners. That is an error of judgment. No prizes should 
be awarded without the concurrence of the owners. There 
then would be no "kicking," and consequently that great 
affliction, the "kicker," would not harm field trials. 
It occurred to me to ask who the judges are and who 
they were. I could learn by examination whether the 
characters of the men are such as to sustain the suspicion 
of incompetency. At my request a friend made out a list 
for me, which 1 now use. He got it largely from Major 
Taylor's book. It will, I think, do much, to silence ground- 
less complaint. 
The first field trials were in 1874, held by the Tennessee 
Sportsmen's Association, and had for judges J. W. Burton 
and J. H. Acklen. These gentlemen retired on their first 
honors. 
In the Association's second trial, 1875, the judges were 
Messrs. E. Orgill, W. A. Williams. Luther Aaams and E. 
C. Sterling, all men of high standing in the business and 
social world. In 1876, same Association, the judges were 
Messrs. E. Orgill, J. H. Whitman, Col. James Gordon 
(Pious Jeems) and Major J. M. Taylor. 
In 1877, at the Hampton, la., trials, the judges were 
Messrs. John E. Long, Henry Miller and H. J. Edwards. 
The Association's trials at Memphis same year were 
judged by Messrs. D. C. Bergundthal, Gen. Jackson and 
Dr. J. B. Alexander. The next year Gen. Jackson, Gen. 
Churchill and Dr. Rawlings Young officiated. 
At the trials of 1879 in the National American Kennel 
Club's trials and the Eastern Field Trial Club's trials the 
judging was performed by Capt. Pat Henry, Messrs. 
Theodore Morford, J. N. Patterson, W. A. Coster, T. F. 
Anderson, C. Du Bois "Wagstaff and L. G. Billings, 
In 1880 trials began to multiply and the judges' list 
grew accordingly. There were chicken trials and quail 
trials. In the former were Mr. B, E. B. Kennedy and Gen. 
R. R. Livingstone. In the quail trials with judges already 
enumerated appeared Mr. J ustus von Lengerke. 
In 1881 in the chicken trials were Dr. J. I. Leas, J. D. 
Brown and E. Perrine. On the California coast were C. 
Robinson, H. H. Briggs and D. M. Pyle. Mr. T. F. Taylor 
made his debut in the East that year, Mr. E, A. Spooner 
taking his place later in the stake. Toe same names here- 
tofore enumerated appear often in different events in 
later years, so I will only mention the list of new ones as 
they appeared year by year. 
In 1881 Judge J. M. Thompson, judge in the Circuit 
Court of Louisiana; Messrs. F. Marion Backston, B. F. 
Wilson, J. H. Dew, Capt. A. E. Woodson, William Tall- 
man. 
In 1882 J. D. Brown, B. Waters, J. M. Kinney, Elliot 
Smith, H. D. Polhemous, Judge C. E. Pratt, Capt. W. H. 
Key and N. D. Wallace. 
In 1883, Messrs. Luther Adams, J. Otto Donner, D. S. 
W. Bridges, Judge C. E. Pratt, F. W. Dunn, Dr. William 
Jarvis, J. M. Trezevant, N. B. Nesbitt. 
In 1884, Messrs. C. Fred Crawford, F. A. Diffenderffer, 
L. C. Bruce, Geo. W. Wingate, Jacob Pentz, C. F. Lewis, 
H. C. Brown, A. G. Pratt, Thos. Bennett, J; T. Baker, F. 
I. Stone, Judge Joseph McKenna and M. S. Humphreys. 
► In 1885, Messrs. John W. Munaon, W. B. Stafford, W. 
E. Leavitt, Chas. Heath, F. R, Hitchcock, C. N. Post, J. 
G. Edwards, John W. Prescott, P. J. Shaf ter, J. M. 
Barney, Judge John Clegg. 
In 1886, J. M. Avent, A. Merriman, A. A. Whipple, C. 
J. Peshall, Percv C. Ohl, Col. B. Ridgway, J. W. Orth, C. 
W. Paris, Col. W. E. Hughes, Hon. R, T. Hailey, Fred A. 
Taft, Hon. D, M. Pyle. 
In 1887, Dr. Otto Moebes, W. B. Wells, P. T. Madison, 
C. Munhall, S. H. Socwell, J. M. Freeman, Theo. Mosher, 
Louis Kudz. R. C. Van Horn, A. P. Vredenburg, S. L. 
Bogge, H. B. Duryea, T. M. Brumby, H. M. Markley, 
John H. Gilbert. 
In 1888 Hon. John B. Clegg, L. B. Baynard, C. D. 
Kretz, Amory R. Starr, Col. A. G. SIoo, E Schultz, Royal 
RobiLSon, J. R. Henrichs, Dr. R. I, Hampton, T. L. 
Martin, Prof. W. W. Lagare, B. P. Holliday, R. L. Mc- 
Cook. 
In 1889, R. T. Vandevort, I. N. Aldrich, P. J. Shafter, 
R. T. Hailey, F. Y. Hall, R. W. Shaw, John Davidson, L. 
E Wills, Benson Mann, Pierre Lorillard, Jr., N. Wallace, 
Col. W. C. Sherrod. 
In 1890, W. L. Thomas, Thomas Johnson, William M. 
Kerr, G, D. Jay, Dr. J. B. Alexander, L. H. Smith, J, L. 
Nichols, S. C. Bradley, J. M. Tracy. 
In 1891, Norvin T. Harris, J. K. Renaud, R. L. Foster, 
Dr. John Clegg, Omer Villere, W. C. Nelson, Dr. M. F. 
Rogers, W. J. Wolz, W. J. Rosborough, Jr., R. P. Little- 
john, S. W. Trott, Luke White, J. B. Stoddard, Herbert 
Merriam. 
Since 1891 there have appeared Rev. W. Hamilton 
Spence, W. S. Bell, J. King, W. W. Titus, P. H. Bryaon, 
W. A. Thompson, G. T. Guttridge, W. T. Tristrem, A. M. 
Young, B. M. Stephenson, John Bolus, John Barker, Capt. 
C. E. McMurdo, A. R. Sharpe, J. W. Lawson and a few 
others whose names I cannot now recall. 
In the list are millionaires, divines, military men, law- 
yers, business men of high standing in every way, of the 
best material that the land affords, and yet there is an 
unreasoning claim for better judges. Who are they and 
where? 
The grim rider has removed several since field trials 
began. Of these are B. F, Wilson, Pittsburg; J. M. Free- 
man, Bicknell, Ind.; R. C. Van Horn, Kansas City; N. D. 
Wallace, New Orleans; J, M. Tracy, New York; H. D. 
Polhemous. 
There is much of the peevish, the eulky, the false in the 
claim that field trials owe any loss to the inadequacy of 
the judges. Field Trialer. 
DOG AND PICTURE. 
Philadelphia. — Editor Forest and Stream: The Rev. 
Charles Josiah Adams's most interesting description of the 
dog's objective and subjective cognizance, published in 
Forest and Stream of May 30, recalls to my mind some- 
what similar circumstances which came under my own 
observation some years ago. The circumstance of the 
dog and the looking-glass were identical. The dog was a 
mongrel bull terrier, not openly quarrelsome, but boldly 
inquisitive and ill-tempered toward other dogs. A look- 
ing-glasB was placed in front of him one day, and he ex- 
hibited the most intense curiosity. He walked up to the 
glass, put his nose on it, then as if to surprise his bold 
interloper he suddenly sprang behind the glass and there 
waB visible a look of dismay or mystification at the noth- 
ingness of his efforts. He repeated the action two or 
three times, then gave it up as something uncanny or par- 
taking of the nature of black art. He felt he was ridicu- 
lous, being the subject of much amusement, but I could 
not perceive that he ever discerned that the counterfeit 
presentment was his own reflection. He saw what to 
him was a dog, and being absolutely unable to find the 
intruder he desisted from further attempts. 
There is no doubt but what the dog is a keen observer 
of emotion. He can read his master's expression of 
countenance much better than he can understand his 
words. But that he can distinguish portraits never oc- 
cured to me. I imagine that the dog's powers in that 
direction are exceedingly limited and not common to the 
multitude. Probably some dogs of exceptionally high 
intelligence and exceptionally favorable opportunities 
may do so. No doubt the skill of the artist too was above 
the ordinary, for it is very difficult for a man to recog- 
nize the portrait of his best friend as it betimes comes 
from the hands of some artists. In the instance brought 
forward the skill of the artist must have been more ex- 
traordinary than the perceptive faculties of the dog. On 
this point, speaking in a more serious vein, I think an 
isolated incident should not be taken as proving that 
such high perception is common to the whole race of 
dogs. This is a point on which the observations of your 
numerous readers would be invaluable in establishing 
whether the dog's cognition is of such a high order 
that he really recognized a portrait, or that 
he considered the portrait as being his mas- 
ter in his own proper person. If he mistook the 
portrait for his master, he simply betrayed stupidity, 
for the skill of the artist simply deceived the dog. In 
other wordB, the dog did not recognize any portrait; he 
recognized only his master himself from a false cognition. 
There was thus no real perception of a portrait or picture 
as such. He was deceived into thinking he saw his mas- 
ter. There was no discrimination exercised. It was as if 
all the while he were actually looking at his master. 
There was no separation of identity; there was no recog- 
nition of the portrait as a portrait. To the dog it was all 
reality . At least, so it seems to me, and I do not think 
Rev. Mr. Adams has made it clear that it is otherwise, 
although such may be from not elaborating on this point 
so fully as it deserves, and so fully as I know he is capable 
of doing. A Posteriori. 
Pointer Club Meeting. 
A regular meeting of the governors of the Pointer 
Club of America was held on June 3, at the office of Mr. 
James L, Anthony, New York. The vice-president pre- 
sided. Present: Messrs. Odell, Mortimer, Lewis, Jarvis 
and Anthony. The secretary being absent, Mr. Lewis 
was appointed secretary pro tern. 
The vice-president reported that owing to the inability 
of Mr. Gould to meet the committee on field trials and 
Mr. Webster's absence on jury duty, he being also one of 
the field trial committee, the committee was unable 
to make a complete report at this meeting, and suggested 
that when this meeting adjourned it shall do so for two 
weeks, and meet at the same place and hour to receive 
said report. On motion of Mr. Jarvis, seconded by Ool. 
Odell, it was moved that the report of the committee shall 
