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Ruth made a good point on a bevy. Yal made a second 
chase, after which he got out of control entirely and so 
remained for a long while, evading all efforts to catch 
him. Ruth made a flush and a point and was ordered up 
at 9:16. She worked prettily and was obedient. 
Sister Sue and Bonnie Lit were worked toward some 
marked birds, Lit making a flush which she should have 
avoided, as the chances were largely in her favor for a 
good point. After a long search Lit dropped in time to 
save herself from a flush on a chicken which flushed. 
Sue flushed an outlying bird which flushed the rest of the 
bevy. Lit made a flush down wind. Up at 10:25. 
SamT. and Colitmbus were started at 10:26, running 
over an hour. Columbus made a point on birds, and 
several other points were made to which nothing was 
foimd. They had a difficult part of the day to work in. 
Columbus had the better pace and range. Sam did not 
stay out at his work and was not spirited in it. 
Dodo III. and Gkeenway were to compete next, but 
the former being absent, Greenway was run alone. He 
was started at 3:26 and ran till 3:53. His speed was fair 
and well maintained, though he showed a disposition to 
potter on footscent. He pointed a bevy nicely on stubble 
and was steady to shot. He next did some inaccurate 
work on a bevy and made some uncertain points on foot- 
scent, his work on birds being good in part and bad in the 
rest. He had medium range and beat out his ground by 
quartering it. 
Domino and Lawrence were cast off at 3:55. Dom- 
ino pointed a single and Lawrence backed stanohly, 
and on the scattered birds this was repeated. 
Both next pointed scattered birds; and sent on 
Lawrence pointed a single on stubble and Domino backed. 
Domino pointed a single; then both did some slobbery 
work on the young birds scattered about, the dogs being 
pressed too hard by their over-eager handlers. Each dog 
flushed a single. In the latter part of the heat Domino 
broke away from control and ranged far away, giving no 
heed to his handler. Lawrence's range was narrow and 
his speed slow. His bird work was fairly good. Up at 
4:25. , 
Von Gull and Noble Leo began at 4:30. Both ranged 
wide and fast, though it was easily apparent that Von 
Gull was using his nose constantly and beating out his 
ground skillfulPy^, neither of which Leo was doing, though 
going prettily and with speed. Von made a point on a 
bevy, and two points on singles, one of which was shared 
by Leo. Both pointed some remaining birds, there be- 
ing no special merit in that, as the birds were marked and 
the work easy. Von made two good points on singles, 
and both going down wind flushed, then pointed remain- 
ing birds, after which Von pointed a bevy. Up at 5:05. 
Von Gull's speed, style, range, good nose and sound 
judgment, and his excellent manner of doing his point 
work, indicated a first-class chicken dog, one in the first 
flight of the great chicken dogs of America, if his work is 
sustained as well in his later trial. Leo's way of going 
was pretty and his range wide, but he had little to show 
for his many pointing opportunities. This heat ended 
the day's work, Up at 5:05. 
Thursday. 
The morning opened most delightfully, a sharp frost of 
the night before still filling the air with a bracing cool- 
ness. Birds were found in fab- numbers when the dogs 
were worked near the stubbles. 
Gleam's Ruth— Bonnie Lit. — They were started at 
8:05. Lit made two flushes. Next pointed and roaded a 
long distance, Lit reading about the same distance in the 
opposite direction; nothing found. Ruth pointed at the 
same time a bird flushed; then held point, and Nesbitt 
flushed a bird to her point. Next Ruth pointed a bird 
up wind of it, and Lit made a false point on stubble. 
Next she flushed a bird, then pointed two birds and Lit 
backed. Up at 8:39. Rath had the advantage in every 
respect. 
Sister Sue and Columbus were cast off at 8:42. Sue 
had a decided advantage in speed and range, and judg- 
ment in working out her ground; and also her work was 
better on birds, though she did one piece of very ragged 
work among scattered birds, flushing right and left under 
good conditions for pointing. Columbus flushed a single. 
Sue roaded on a single, which was flushed by her handler. 
Next she pointed a single nicely, and Columbus crossing 
in ahead of her flushed it. Sent on, he flushed another 
shortly, then pointed and a single was flushed to the point. 
Sue roaded on a bird which flushed wild. Columbus 
pointed a bird very close on it. Then Sue made several 
bad flushes in succession. Sue had the better of the heat, 
but had ruined her chances by flushing. Up at 9:14. 
SamT. and Greenway were cast off at 9:19, A long 
search was made in the open prairie without finding; then 
a turn was made back to the wheat stubbles, where birds 
were in fair numbers. Sam pointed, roaded about 
J50yds. and pointed several birds. Up at 10:05. Sam 
came in to his handler at first, but was ranging wide at 
the finish. Greenway was also ranging wide, much bet- 
ter than in his heat of the previous day. 
Von Gull was run alone 20m., beginning at 10:07. He 
pointed a bird nicely and his ranging was well sustained. 
Sam T. and Gleam's Ruth were called up to run and 
started ac 10:55, the winner to run the final with Von 
Gull. Sam flushed a bevy, then false pointed. Both 
made a point on a bevy, Ruth the first to make the point. 
Sam pointed two remaining birds. Ruth pointed a single 
and Sam backed, and Sam did some awkward work on 
the remaining birds. Sam made a flush and Ruth a 
point. Both ranged well at good speed, Sam the better, 
though his bird work was very faulty. Up at 11:12. 
Von Gull and Gleam's Ruth were called up to run the 
final at 11:21. They ran 9m. Von pointed, Ruth backed; 
Von lost scent and roaded away from the bird up wind, 
casting then beautifully about with a high nose to locate 
it. It was flushed afterward by wagons. Next he roaded 
a bird to a flush. Next down wind he flushed a single 
excusably. He made an excellently well sustained show- 
ing and was far away the best dog in the stake. 
The judges then awarded first to Von Gull, second to 
Gleam's Ruth, third to Sam T. 
Von Gull exhibited a degree of merit but little if any 
short of first class. He carried a high nose and displayed 
a delicate nose and rare judgment. He scoured for the 
body scent and was very accurate in his point work. The 
work of the others was inferior in comparison. 
B. Waters. 
Milwaukee show entries closed Thursday, Sept. 10. 
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the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman is particularly detirable. 
A SHORT SQUIRREL HUNT. 
New York, Sept. 5. — Editor Forest and Stream: The 
opening of the squirrel season always makes me nervous, 
and I cannot do justice to my business till I have gone 
out and killed a few. The squirrel season opened in New 
Jersey Sept. 1, and part of New Jersey lies in plain sight 
of the office buildings of lower New York. That part is 
not very inviting, to be sure, to a squirrel hunter or any- 
body else; but another part, a little higher up the Hud- 
son, is very different. It was the knowledge of the ex- 
istence of this other part that made the docks and ferries 
of Jersey City and Communipaw suggestive as I looked 
over toward them, and this in the natural course of 
events was responsible for my condition of mind. 
So along about 4 o'clock on Sept. 1 1 could stand it no 
longer, and, breaking away from the restraints of busi- 
ness, I made my way uptown, and at 4.45 reached West 
130fch street ferry. I had my bicycle with me, and in its 
case, strapped to the wheel, was a .33caliber Marlin re- 
peater. 
It is a simple matter to carry a gun on a bicycle, espe- 
cially if carried in a case, To attach my rifle to the 
wheel is only a matter of snapping a single hook, which 
I have fastened to the end of the shoulder strap of the 
canvas gun case. This hook is that furnished by the 
Winchester Company with rifle slings. It works on a 
swivel and is made of spring steel, so that once snapped 
it will not become undone. In attaching it to the gun 
case I took out the two rivets fastening the shoulder strap 
to the ring at the rear end of the case and riveted on the 
hook in ite place. Then, when I wanted to put the gun 
on the bicycle, I could carry the shoulder strap around 
the lamp bracket, which is attached to the handle bar 
post, and back around the rear part of the saddle post, 
and then snap the hook into the ring at the butt of the 
gun case. In that way the gun is carried high enough 
not to interfere with pedaling. It can be drawn from 
the case very easily, or case and gun can be taken from 
the bicycle in a second. 
I rode about six miles north from the ferry before I 
came to a spot that suited me. Then I turned aside from 
the main road into an old wood road that ran west, 
crossed a swamp, and moimted a ridge that was wooded 
with a handsome growth of large forest trees, in which 
oak and chestnut predominated. 
As I advanced things became more and more suggest- 
ive of squirrels. In one of the main forks of a great 
branching oak I could see a nest, while near by were 
several old gnarled hoUow trees that would furnish the 
grays a chance of escape when hard pressed. Circling 
around to the left was the swamp, and just where the 
land fell away were several shaggy hemlocks, offering 
another safe refuge for squirrels. 
I paused, resting on my bicycle, and scanned the 
neighboring tree tops for some view of the nimble deni- 
zens of the place. For some minutes there was no evi- 
dence of life in that corner of the woods, except for 
the mosquitoes, which were of the usual Jersey breed and 
thoroughly aggressive. Then off to my right I heard a 
crash as a squirrel sprang to a light bough that gave way 
with his weight, and, turning my eyes in that direction, 
I made out a streak of gray running down one of the 
main branches of an oak 70yds. away. The squirrel was 
coming toward the point where I stood; so I drew the 
rifle from its case, worked a long rifle cartridge through 
the action into the barrel, and raised the folding Lyman 
sight. But the squirrel had no intention of coming near- 
er. He had found an abundant supply of acorns in the 
tree where he now was, and seemed fully satisfied to re- 
main in it till dark. 
Meanwhile the mosquitoes increased in numbers, and 
the competition for the tenderer parts of my anatomy 
was unusually brisk. Accordingly I resolved on carrying 
the war into Egypt, and, leaning my bicycle up against a 
convenient tree, I advanced toward the tree where I had 
last seen the squirrel, keeping my eyes peeled for any 
motion on his part. The leaves on the ground were dry, 
and he had heard the first step in advance I made and 
hidden. I walked around the tree, which was not one 
the squirrel would have selected for hiding if he had had 
time, and presently became convinced that a protuber- 
ance on a limb pretty near the top of the tree was not the 
kind that naturally grow on oak trees; so I selected a po- 
sition where I could rake this particular branch, and 
where no intervening obstacle would deflect the bullet, 
and fired. Two or three pieces of bark came sailing 
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down, and a second later the squirrel followed, falling 
with a thud at the base of the tree. He had been hang- 
ing head downward, for the bullet had gone in one eye 
and ranged the whole length of his body, coming out on 
the under side near his tail. 
I looked at my watch and found that' it was just 6 o'clock, 
and I took some credit to myself for having killed a 
squirrel an hour and a quarter a£ter leaving New York's 
bOsy streets. 
Holding the gray in one hand and also the handle bars of 
my bicycle, and with the rifle in the other, I set out again 
in quest of more game. Crossing a swampy place, I came 
to another ridge wooded very similarly to the first. Here 
I left my bicycle and advanced a short distance more 
quietly than was possible when pushing the wheel. 
Down toward the brilliant glow of the setting sun, 
which had now gone below the horizon, I saw another 
gray. He was moving through the trees a long way off, 
but gradually he drew closer. Ten minutes later he was 
almost within range; but it was fast growing dark, and 
when at 40yd8. I tried for a sight on the squirrel as he 
moved through the tree tops he was so in shade that I 
could not catch him. 
After crossing in front of me at about that distance I 
lost sight of him, and a minute's wait convinced me that he 
had turned in for the night. 
Going over to the place where I had last seen him, I 
discovered a nest, and feeling sure that he was in it, I 
sent up several shots through its outer edges as a gentle 
hint that I would like to see him. I stopped for a mo- 
ment owing to a missfire, and just at that instant the 
squirrel popped out. I had no time to insert a shell with- 
out the bullet, and accordingly I pushed down the lever, 
withdrawing the shell that had missed fire, and then 
pulled it back again, putting a new cartridge in the bar- 
rel with two bullets ahead, which I let drive in the gen- 
eral direction of the squirrel. The squirrel ran a good 
race through several trees and I fired at him a number of 
times, but it was too dark to see him among the leafy 
boughs, and being convinced of the uselessness of it I 
gave up and let the squirrel finish his journey unmo- 
lested. 
It was then so dark that I had difl3.oulty in finding my 
wheel, and only a faint glow indicated the position of 
the sun. I knew that there was a good road in that di- 
rection, whereas the road I had come was newly covered 
with crushed stone and was bad riding; so I struck out 
westward. Far away I could hear an engine on the 
Northern Railroad of New Jersey puffing and rumbling 
along with a heavy train, and this would have given me 
my direction if the afterglow had been wanting. 
At first the walking was easy. In under the big trees 
the undergrowth offered no obstacle to my progress. 
Presently, however, I came out into an old clearing 
grown up to brush and wild grasses and blackberry bush- 
es, and the traveling became harder. I succeeded, how- 
ever, in pushing my wheel through this, but in crossing 
the clearing I lost the old road, which no doubt ended 
there, and after that new difficulties arose. 
In trying to get around a fallen tree I climbed up on a 
large rock, and, jumping down the other side, found my- 
self in a jungle of scrub oaks higher than my head. 
Through these I had to carry the bicycle, as it was impos- 
sible any other way to force it through the tangled 
growth. I made my way around the top branches of the 
fallen tree, and to my great relief found another old road, 
where travel was comparatively easy. Quarter of a mile 
further on I reached the main road, which I had never 
imagined to be so far away, and then all was plain 
sailing. 
Thinking it all over, I am surprised at the ease with 
which a bicycle can be taken through undergrowth, for I 
had really gone about as quickly as I should have gone 
if I had had no wheel. J. B. B. 
Buck vs. Bicycle. 
Geant Froman left Albany, Ore., Tuesday morning on 
his bicycle for Belknap Springs on a fishing expedition. 
He traveled seventy-three miles that day, stopped at a 
farm house all night and started early next morning. He 
was directed wrong and went to Foley Springs, then 
started again after dinner, and on the way came across a 
buck lying in the road. He was slipping by on one side 
when the buck made for him, striking his bicycle and 
sending it 6 or 8ft., bending the rim and breaking two or 
three spokes,landing Grant on top of the buck where he sat 
a long time holding the buck down. When released the 
buck made off and Grant repaired his wheel and rode on, 
arriving at Belknap Springs at 5 o'clock in the evening, 
taking supper with Joe Meyers; at least that is the story 
the Albany Democrat tella.— Morning Oregonian. 
FIXTURES. 
S Indicates races sailed by the Yacht Racing Union of L. I. Sound. 
M indicates races sailed by the Yacht Racing Ass''n of Massachusetts, 
SEPTBMBEIR. 
12. Beverly, 5th cbam., Buzzard's Bay. 
12. Hull, club, Hull, Boston Harbor. 
S 12. Indian Harbor, special, Greenwich, L. I. Sound. 
12. Larchmont, special, Larchmont, L. I. Sound. 
S 12. Sea Cliff, special, Sea Cliff, L. I. Sound. 
12. Squantum, Burfehardt cup, Squantum, Mass. • 
12. Chicago, open, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 
16. Atlantic City, mosquito class, Atlantic City. 
18. Hempstead, closing day. , 
19. Eastern, knockabout class, Marblehead.^1 
S 19. American, fall regatta, Milton Point, L. I.ISound. 
26. Hull, club, Hull, Boston Harbor. 
8 26. Riverside, special. Riverside, L. I. Soimd. 
26. Squantum, Burkhardt cup, Squantum, Mass. 
OCTOBBR. 
Cor. Atlantic City, mosquito class, Atlantic City. 
Not a few of the would-be experts have amused them- 
selves before the races with that illusory pursuit of "draw- 
ing lines" in the effort to prove that the Chicago champion 
must win. The absurd extreme to which this performance 
was carried in the present case may be imagined when It is 
understood that the favorable forecasts of Vencedor's victory 
were based on the racing of Vreda, an old and long out- 
classed British 20-raler, of 46ft. l.w.l., and of Priscilla, the 
85ft. schooner built in 1885 as a sloop to defend the Amer- 
ica's Cup. On this ridiculous foundatioa it was confidently 
asserted that Canada had no chance whatever with , 
Yencedor. 
