Makch 27, 1897.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
2B8 
day, inwardly resolving that this should be my last shootiu^ 
trip. But after a smoking hot supper and an evening passed 
before a grand old fireplace with one of Andover's fairest 
daughters, wiser counsels prevailed, and I concluded to re 
main to the end of my allotted time. 
Amply was I repaid for so doing, -as, taking the same route 
under more auspicious circumstances a few days later, and 
camping at the Upper Richardson Pond, we spent the pleas- 
antest days of the stason. 
If the editor does not think this' account of the unpleasant 
portion of a sportsman's outing disqualifies me from the 
ranks of true sportsmen, who in theory should be above 
such trivial annoyances, and refrains from consigning this 
nai-rative to the tender mercies of the waste basket, I will 
furnish an account of the pleasurable part of the camping 
experiences of two novices. 
I must confess, however, that I am no lover of discomfort, 
even though it be in the pursuit of my favorite recreation. 
A Bane Clerk. 
"Angling Talks." 
We have a very few copies of George Dawson's "Angliug Talks," a 
series of chapters of entertaining chat about men, fishermen, " 
fishing and fishing places. Cloti, 50 cents. Forest and Scream 
lishiDg Co. 
, :^sh, 
Fub- 
Imml 
FIXTURES 
BE.NOH SHOWS 
March • 4-'27 - P iTTSBURG.— Ducjuesne KenTl^l Club. 
March 17-iO.— Lotjisvillb -Kentuci-y Kennel Club. 
March 30-April a.— Baltimore.— BaUimore Kennel Assrciation. 
JUareh 30-April 2.— KUksas City.— Kansas City Kennel Club. 
March .31-April .3.— Sak Josfi;.— Santa Clara "County Poultry and 
Kennel Club. 
April 7-10.- Stockton.— Stockton Kennel Club. 
April l-J-17.— Los Angeles.— Southern California Kennel Club. 
FIELD TMAL8. 
Sept. 6. - Manitoba Field Trials Club, J^lorris, Man. 
Nov. 2 — Monongahela Valley Game and Fish Protective Associ- 
aUon's trials, Greene county. Pa. 
Nov. 8.— Union Field Trials Club's trial.e, Carlisle, Ind. 
Nov. 15.— E F. T. Club's trials, Newton, N, O. 
THE INHERITANCE OF MUTILATION'S. 
Vebsatlles, Ky.— Since the publication of Dr. Lock- 
wood's experiments in breeding tailless mice, it rather seems 
accepted as true by the profession that a mutilation has but 
to be inflicted on an indefinite number of successive genera- 
tions to insure its heredity. While this is indisputably 
proven regarding mice, yet facts within the observation of 
all cause one to doubt whether the same la true with other 
animals. The dehorning of cattle has been practiced for 
quite a lime, yet 1 have kncwn no hornless offspring of dehorn - 
utated ancestry. My own family has occupied the same 
lands for nearly a century— four generations. Each in suc- 
cession has marked hogs with the same mutilation of the ears 
Tet none has seen a single pig born with mutilated aural 
appendages. And it is conceded that our stock hcgs are of 
the same general ancestry on one side, improvement being 
sought by changing the sire, which also invariably suffered 
the same mutilation. 
The custom of culting oflF the tails of joung lambs, which 
-is as old as the settlement of this Btale, was brought hence 
from Virginia, where it obtained since her colonizsiiion, com- 
ing thence from England, extending I ao not know how far 
back — at least to ihe era of Little Bo-Peep. 1 have made 
careful inquiry of both breeders and buyers of sheep, and 
have learned of but two instancts of Iambs born without 
tails. Since 1 have myself obseived more than a like num- 
ber of tailless calves at! birth, I fairly reason that these were 
freaks of nature rather than instances of the heredity of 
mutilation. 
These examples afford fair grounds for belitf that the 
mouse is less tenacious of racial characteristics than any 
. other of the lower animals affording means of observation 
regarding the transmission of mutilations, if indeed they do 
not absolutely show that the inheiitauce of mutilations is a 
legacy peculiar to the mouse among all the lower animals. 
That there is no such inheritance in the human race we 
have a proof as indisputable as can be imagined. 
While the iuherilance of mutilations seems exceptional, 
and even disproven regarding many animals from fairly ex- 
tensive observation and experiment, the transmission of 
mental impress is much more susceptible of proof. Mr. 
Railey, a noted horseman of this county, had a mare and a 
stallion both well trained in the "high school" and "park" 
gaits. Their sires probably had received the same education; 
1 know nothing as to their dams I have seen a colt of these 
two go "high school" in the pasture of his own free will and 
inclination, before he ever knew bit or rein. The sire in 
question became the property of Mrs. Joe Emmet, and is, I 
taink, to be seen in your city to-day. 
Another instance of this kind of heredity has been seen by 
all. What is known as the "pointing" or "sitting instinct" 
in dogs is but the development tbi ough heredity of that 
ecstatic pause that the presence of quarry excites in beasts of 
prey. It is to be observed lo a sligbt extent in all members 
of both the dog and cat family. The pause or "crouch" of 
the lion or tiger before springing is not so much for pose of 
lirrib tor that x)in'pose as it is the transient hypnosis from 
imminence of prey. This hypnosis ot sight or ecstatic ex- 
pectancy, devt loped by education and fixed by heredity, is 
surely the most reasonable explanation of the distinguishing 
characteristic of our bhd dogs It has had no development 
in the cat for sufficient reasons. Ske is the mo-t unciviUzed 
of all domestic animals. What she originally was and wliat 
she is now are one and the same, except as infiuenced by en- 
vironment. The cat, is unsusceptible of education. Such 
things as further her phy!?ical needs the takes advantage of, 
not from the influence of man, but merely as she would have 
done had she l<aind the same conditions in nature. As I 
have seen elsewhere mentioned, she will rub her back against 
a man's legs as formerly against a tree,-prelers the shelter of 
a fireside to that of the forest, food freely bestowed to the 
chances of the chase; but in native instincts she is in nowise 
changed or developed from her aboriginal state, and even in 
color constantly tends to the mottling of the mingled lights 
and shadows that proved her protection in the pristine "i cr- 
ests. — S. M. WortMngtoii, M.D., in Medical Record 
(The learned gentleman may be very strong on lambs, 
mice, dehorned cattle and horses, but he is weak on dogs 
and cats; and his knowledge of the hypnosis of the tiger and 
lion 18 open to question. 
The pm'pose of the dog in capturing his prey is to secure a 
food supply. He is a superficial observer indeed who would 
claim that the tense muscles and intent alertness which ob- 
tain durins' the moments the dog endeavors to locate his 
prey by his sense of smell indicate a state of hypnosis. The 
extraordinary agility displayed by the dog in his effort to 
capture his prey so soon as he has located it proves that point- 
ing is but a preliminary pause for information and prepara- 
tion to spring and capture,] 
AN IMPROMPTU FOX HUNT. 
Iltok, N. Y.— Editor Foi^est and Stream: Probably the 
reason we hear so little of the beagle outside of field trial 
reports is that the owners of those grand little dogs are kept 
too busy following them to write of their sport. JSTo one 
who has spent one day behind good ones will class them 
with the prize-juge;ling spaniel. Other dogs have had their 
historians telling of the rare sport of some days' hunt, but 
the praises of the beagle have yet to find "a competent 
chronicler. 
Probably the most interesting hunt we have had this fall 
is our impromptu fox hunt, although we have had many 
rabbit hunts and succeeded in bagging quite a few. Welett 
Ilion a' out 4 o'clock in the morning and did not ariive at 
the hunting grounds till after 9, quite a trip for a rabbit 
hunt, and all the way on the cars loo. We turned the dogs 
loose about 9 o'clock and at 11 we had not seen our first 
rabbit. The dogs would start them all right, but the snow 
was light and very dry and it seemed impossible for them to. 
hold the scent for any distance. About 11 o'clock, as we 
were crossing a ridge between two swamps. Dime, the pride 
of the pack jumped a fox and away she went, closely fol- 
lowed by Bessie and Dime's Dolly. Dime was originally 
used to hunt foxes and she never loses a chance to give one 
a race unless she is too bu^^y with rabbits. 
The noon sun was warming up the snow and made the 
running fairly good. The way those dogs made that fox 
run was a caution, and for just four hours and twenty min- 
utes they kept him going. 
Soon we heard a short, sharp bark quite near us, and 
Saxby said, "There! they have put him in his hole." He 
then fired his gun lo call in the clogs. Soon we saw Dime 
come out of the woods and across the opeo ground toward 
us, with Bessie close behind. One of the party said, "I 
don't see Dolly She must be lying down somewhere on the 
track." He probably thought so from the fact that she was 
between four and five weeks in whelp. But Saxby said, 
"Djn't you worry about Dally; she has got to have her bark 
in the hole too, She i&n't far away." Soon he said, "See 
that!" We all looked where he was pointing and were able 
to see something white moving ab07e the top of the weeds. 
It was Dolly, and she had her flag up too. 
They are all small dogs. Dime is just enough over 13in. 
so she has to run in the 15in. class, and D.me's Dolly and 
Bessie are both in the 18in. class. They aU ran at Oxford, 
Mass., at the field trials last November. 
Little Dolly has run her last race. She died while whelp- 
ing last month, and no dog in the p9ck can take her place. 
She was the most promising puppy of the lot and the pet of 
all who knew her. 
After we had disposed of the fox or rather after the fox 
had disposed of us, we repaired to the swamps, and soon 
had the rabbits going in great shape until darkness com- 
pelled us to think of home, Dj you suppose you could get 
those dogs to come in? Well, I think not. We had to 
catch every < ne of them and put them on the chain and 
fairly drag them away. Now let some other admirer of the 
beagle tell us what their dogs have been doing this fall, and 
let the public know that the staunch little beagle is capable 
of giving as fine a day's sport as his severest critics demand. 
What is more inspiring to the true sportsman than the music 
of the beagle orchestra in full cry. even ic he don't get a 
rabbit. J. D. R. 
FOX HUNT IN UPSHIRL'S NECK. 
Virginia. — Editor Forest and Stream: The Only and 
Mappsburg packs, after recuperating from their heavy run 
last week in Hack's Neck, again came together to-day, in 
order that the important sporting matter might bs fully set- 
tled as to the best qualities of their respective packs. The 
points to be considered were speed, slaying qualities, strain 
of blood, and greater degree ot skill in readily finding the 
track when cominig: to a check, besides many other fine poin i 
that go to makeup an animal fitforthe enjoyment and sport 
of man. 
The hunt was one of great excitement, though it did not 
last near so long as hunts frequently do. From the time of 
raising the fox until his capture was 2 hours and 59 minutes 
by the watch. 
To give a better idea of the huafc made to-day, it seems im- 
portant before going further to give a brief description of 
Upshire's Ntck. This is a long strip of narrow, very rich 
farming land laying between Matehapungo Creek and Hog 
Island Bay, some ten to twelve miles long and averaging 
about a mile in width, abounding in small game, with plenty 
of red foxes in addition. 
We raised the fox on the Davis farm at 7 A. M. about five 
miles from the south end of the neck. The dogs were as 
gay as larks, and went straight for reynard at a terrible rate 
of speed south, the riders following, but failing to keep in 
distance, the dogs running two lengths to their one. The 
point of the neck reached, the fox doubled and was met run- 
ning north, making fine time, leading perhaps by a half mile. 
The pack was up almost instantly, well tog. iher, passing us 
as it were a shadow, so to speak, at which stage of the hun*; 
two black and tans bilonging to the Mappsburg pack and 
two of the Only pack were the first to mount the inclosure 
of the Fentress farm. Ames's bitch Music and one im- 
ported were the next. The dogs were soon out of sight and 
hearing, the riders following at all possible speed. 
When some five or six miles north we met the fox that 
had been out of the neck. As was afterward reported, he 
made a circle of perhaos ten miles through the country, and 
was returning again down the heck, in fact, was already on 
the Bowdoin farm. At this stage of the hunt, an hour and 
a half having already elapsed, there was but trifling odds 
beween the dngs and the fox as between then and when last 
seen, the latter showing no signs of distress, while the dogs 
were well packed, running with srreat speed, making the 
damp atmnsphere resound as it were the rushing of mighty 
waters. It is not possible for one not there present to wit- 
ness the sight to realize this grand exhibition of the efforts 
of pursuers ^md pursued. The first were obeying the laws 
of instinct without the possibility of gain, while the other 
instinctively knew that his only hope of escape depended 
upon the means given him by na'ture— speed and endurance. 
The doss passed on south, where the fdx again doubled at 
the point, foUowins: the Broadwater shore north to the B m- 
doin farm, where being closely pressed— the hard turf giving 
the dogs better foothold— he shied from his course and 
crossed the Bowdoin farm; this being the first time, to our 
knowledge, that the dogs had sighted him. Even now he 
was St en only by the leading dogs, and was too far away to 
perceptibly accelerate their speed. 
The chase continued to offer every interest connected with 
tlje sport, the dogs going north up the neck, crossing farm 
after farm, and the horsemen in fuU pursuit. Passing again 
out of the neck, the fox made a circuit, as before, and finding 
himself hard pressed was soon back again. On sighting him 
we found that he was badly broken up, exhibiting a strong 
tendency to "linger." The two black and tans had, unfor- 
tunately, been ripped almo.st to their vitals by a barbed wire 
fence on the north run, and were not with the pack, but the 
rest were making good time and quite well together, None 
had stranded, while it was apparent that the chase was now 
drawing to a clnse. But a short time elapsed before a black 
and tan bitch belonging to Ames had the credit of being the 
first to pass sentence on poor reynard. The entire pack, 
however, must have been close up, as the fox was torn into 
jiblets 
The same grounds will be hunted on Wednesday next 
T. G. Elliott. 
Dogs for Packing' in Alaska. 
Some time ago an Alaska trader visited the city looking 
for dogs. He spent several days here, and left with six lusty 
canines which he had purchased at very reasonable rates. 
He said he wanted the dogs to take to Alaska and make 
common carriers of them, dogs being the only animals that 
can stand the grief of a trip up the Yukon, and be good for 
anything when they get there. Eskimo dogs are, of course, 
preferatle for this purpose, being intended by nature for 
.such use, but Eskimo dogs are scarce and expensive, so 
ordinary dogs are used to take their places and answt r very 
well. All that ia required is a long-haired dog big enough 
to haul his share of a sledge, and sufficiently young and 
inttlligent to be capable of learning the business. Such 
dogs command a good price, a fact which many men who 
are now working extra hours for money to feed household 
pets will be glad to learn. There has been more or less 
inquiry for dogs in Portland and the cities of the Sound 
every spring. This year, however, the development of the 
mines on the Yukon has taken so many miners into the min- 
ing district that the demand for pack animals is greater than 
ever, and the dog market is likely to be very brisk before 
^QQg.— Portland Oregonian. 
Pet Dog Club. 
East Orange. N. J., March IS.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: At a meeting of the American Pet Dog Club, held 
at the Hotel Lincoln, Broadway and Fifty-second street, 
New York city, on March 10, the club elected as its judges 
for the ensuing year Messrs. Morris, Rackham, Mortimer, 
and Miss Whitney, and as delegate of the American Kennel 
Club Mr. T. Farrer Rackham, East Orange, N. J. 
Three new members, Mrs Anna Bernstem, Mrs, Marie 
Earth and Miss Sophie Baith, were elected and ten new 
members were proposed. Other business of importance was, 
transacted and the club is in a most flourishing condition. 
T. Farrer Rackham, Sec'y^ 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
A Pittsburg friend kindly sent us the following clipping, 
which recounts the devotion and intelligence of a dog: 
"Thomas Cain, residing on Hamilton avenue, Brushton, 
his wife and three children were saved from burning to 
death early yesterday morning by a dog. Fire broke out in 
the house about 4 A. M., when they were asleep, and they 
were only awakened in time to make a hasty escape by the 
dcg barking, howling and scratching at the door of Mr. 
Cain's room. The house was destroyed. It was valued at 
$'2,000, and |160 which Mr. Cain had in a bureau drawer 
was also bm'ned." 
The National Pet Stock Association, organized for the 
promotion nf the intere.'^ts of the pet stock at fairs and live 
stock exhibitions, has issued a circular in which it calls the 
attention of breeders to the need of united action and the 
succe&s which comes from it. Full particulars can be 
obtained of the secretary, Mr. G. P. Reynaud, Mount 
Vernon, JN. Y. 
Under date of March 17, Mr. Thos. Johnson, of Winni- 
peg, writes feelingly of his friend: "Only those who knew 
the late A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale inLimaUly knew 'what a 
great, big, kindly heart he had. Manly sports have indeed 
lost a friend. Tne Shropshire hounds, which he had kept 
and hunted at his own cost, and English field trials have 
lost a most beneficent encourager and supporter. I cannot 
better illustrate his kindheartedness than by quoting a fine 
from a letter he wrote me when Mr. Braelsford last came to 
this country with his dogs; he said; 'Mr. Braelsford, as you 
know, is getting well up in years. Pli.'ase, Mr. Johnson, do 
all you can for him to make his labors as light as possible, 
and spare no exoense in doing so.' 
"When I think of Mr. Dexter, Mr Lorillard, and other 
great American sportsmen — and wish we had more like 
them — .and then, when I remember Mr. Lonsdale, I don't 
think it any reflection to say, 'He was the greatest Roman of 
them all.'" 
Mr. G. B. Borradaile, Honorary Secretary of the Mani- 
toba Field Trials Club, Winnipeg, has sent out the following 
information in a circular letter to the club's patrons: The 
following arrangements have been made in order to prevent 
expense, trouble or delay at any of the customs ports of 
entry, viz.: Neche, Pembina and Gretna, All dogs that 
have been duly entered in any of the Manitoba Field Trials 
Club events are allowed to enter Manitoba and remain for 
ninety days free of all duty. In order to benefit by this ar- 
rangement, an accurate description of each dog, giving 
name, breed, sex, color, event entered in, owner's name, 
name of person having charge, and line of railway traveling 
by, must be mailed to C. G. Borradaile one week previous to 
date of arrival at port of entry. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press eacli week on Tuesdaiy, 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach ua at ttie 
atest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 
