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No one can tell from the statement quoted above whether 
the dog won in open, novice, puppy or other classes. It is 
plain that the entry being so faulty the cancellation was 
just. 
The premium list and entry blanks of the New England 
Kennel Club's open air dog show, to be held at the club 
grounds, Braintree, Mass., June 19, can be obtained of 
James E. Green, Braintree, Mass. Entry fee $1. Entries 
close on June 8. The club desires that those who are in- 
terested in dogs will aid and cooperate in making the show 
a success. 
The kennel of the late A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale will (be 
sold to the highest bidder at Aldridge's, J^ondon, on J uly 
2. There are sixty-one all told. 
N, Q. Pope, of Poland, Me., one of the oldest and most 
enthusiastic of fanciers and supporters of hound interests, 
died on May 13, of pneumonia, after a short illness. He 
was an active member of the Brunswick Fur Club and 
contributed much toward its success. Pie was on the 
point of giving up kennel interests, and a few days before 
his death he had promised all his dogs to Mr. A. 
McGregor, who had charge of his kennels. 
Quite an important overhauling of the Boston Terrier 
Standard and Scale of Points is to be considered at a meet- 
ing to be held on June 4, at Young's Hotel, Boston, at 8 
o'clock. 
Mr. W. S. Bell, secretary of the Continental Field Trial 
Club, under date of May 22 writes us as follows: "Permit 
me through the medium of your paper to again call atten- 
tion to the closing date of the Blue Kibbon Stake of the 
Continental Field Trials Club's chicken trials. These will 
be held at Morris, Manitoba, and advice from there reports 
plenty of chickens, therefore we look forward to success- 
ful trials. The entries will close June 1. I hope owners 
and handlers will take cognizance of this and give us a 
bumper entry list." 
Mr. J. B. Baker, New York, recently purchased Tony 
Gale, a dog of excellent merit, and joined interest with the 
Eldred Kennels. 
We learn that Mr."W. S. Bell will judge the Blue Eibbon 
and Excelsior Stake of the Continental Field Trial Club. 
His long experience and satisfactory performances will 
assure that he will do the judging skillfully. 
Mr. Robert Johnson, Newburgh, N. Y., Superintendent 
of the Orange County Bench Show, Middleton, N. Y., in- 
forms us that his club claims the dates Sept. 21 to 24. 
At an adjourned meeting of the Western Canada Ken- 
nel Club held recently in the Clarenden Hotel, Winnipeg, 
it was decided to hold the club's annual field trials on 
Aug. 30 and 31 instead of Sept. 6. 
Mr. J. J. Flynn, secretary, writes us under date of May 
13 as follows: "Kindly say that the dates of the Interna- 
tional Fox Terrier show have been cancelled, and that the 
show will not be held until later." 
CommunicaUona for fhia department are requested. Anything on 
the bicycle in its relation to the ^ortsman is particularly desirab le 
WHEELING NOTES. 
The writer of a series of articles iu an English photo- 
graphic publication on stalking with the camera, uses his 
bicycle as a means of reaching his hunting grounds. The 
material assistance rendered by the wheel may be judged 
from a description of the apparatus taken into the field : 
"As a matter of fact," he writes, "the camera I have used 
all last year, with lens, tripod and one double back, weighs 
161bs., besides which I generally carry eight more quarter- 
plate dark slides, two half-plates, two gpare lenses, with a 
host of etceteras, and on working far from home perhaps 
two or three dozen plates and a changing bag besides. The 
whole of this heavy load when at home I pack on a bicycle 
until reaching the scene of the day's work, when the 
machine is left at some house or farm, or hidden carefully 
in a ditch and well covered over with grass and leaves." 
The author of these articles devotes much of his time to 
photographing birds and small animals in their native 
haunts. He is an enthusiast at his work, and a picture in 
the article from which the quotation is- made shows him up 
to his armpits in water focusing his camera, which is con- 
cealed behind a blind of twigs or some unseen bit of animate 
nature. His study opens up an interesting and convenient 
field for naturalists and lovers of nature. Even the com- 
monest birds familiar to everybody well repay study and 
observation, and photographic records of their daily life are 
of value and a never-failing source of interest. 
The story of a rider who couldn't mount his wheel when 
the repairer had accidentally chanoied the step to the right 
side was told in these columns some time ago. His was, per- 
haps, a rare instance for a rider of some experience. There 
are, however, at the present time many riders of last year's 
crop who have not yet learned to dismount from either pedal. 
Taking into consideration the fact that a bicycle travels from 
15 to 20ft. at each revolution of the pedals, it can easily be 
seen that there are times when it does not pay to wait for the 
customary pedal to come around before gettiag off. Most 
riders can fall off in an emergency, but it is safer to be able 
to dismount properly from the pedal that happens to be in • 
position. 
Talk about being too old to ride! Really no one is too 
old. 
We know of a lady ninety years young, as Holmes would 
have said, who, in compliance with a suggestion made by 
one of her grandsons, took her first bicycle ride on the birth- 
day that opened up the last decade of her century. This old 
lady made the circuit of her grounds on a tandem, and said 
that she enjoyed the experience. And yet some youthful 
persons of fitty or sixty give age as an excuse for not riding. 
