February, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
65 
Lem and Ben 
Master’s sons — Kirk’s Boy and Raven 
the wagon. “Shores Ben” has been a 
constant winner in the field at the trials 
of the past three seasons. 
The “Old friends of North Carolina” 
shows Fairy Beau, amateur champion 
last year, and the wonderful little “Miss 
Naponeechie,” the little “Missie,” owned 
by Mr. Samuel G. Allen, probably as fine 
a little bit of flesh and dog hair as ever 
stuck a nose up against a bevy of quail. 
Sensational as a newsboy’s extra, she 
slides and dives into her points with all 
the grace and abandon of an Indian 
dancer. 
The last canvas shows a brace of set- 
ters owned by Mr. P. H. Powel, “Lem 
and Ben.” The grace and pose of the 
pointing dog in this picture show the 
artist to be a keen student of the hunt- 
ing dog. Note the eyes and nose of this 
dog; you can almost see the working 
nostrils as he feels for the delicate scent 
of the close lying brace. 
“Denwood,” the home of these com- 
panions of our field days, is an ideal 
shooting box. The club house planned 
and arranged by Mr. P. H. Powel, stands 
in the middle of a large tract of shooting 
country. The kennels are ideal and the 
gentlemen who comprise the club are all 
dog lovers and sportsmen, and are for- 
tunate in numbering as one of them Mr. 
Rosseau, a perpetuator with brush and 
color of their companions of the fields 
and stubble of North Carolina. 
All the pictures here reproduced were 
part of an exhibition showing the sea- 
son’s work of Mr. Rosseau — and now as 
we go to press and the New Year opens 
— we learn that Mr. Rosseau is again at 
“Denwood” amongst the dogs — and un- 
doubtedly we shall soon get glimpses of 
old and new friends when his annual ex- 
hibition takes place in New York. 
Sportsmen are keen critics of dog art. 
They catch the stilted and unreal por- 
traiture of the sporting dog. That Mr. 
Rosseau’s brush is guided by the hand 
of a sportsman and dog lover is shown in 
his work, and that he “satisfies” is shown 
in the very keen appreciation every well 
known dog lover takes in his beautiful 
canvases as they appear. 
W E hope some day to see Mr. Ros- 
seau put on canvas some of the 
work done in competition by the 
great Field Trial Stars. 
Could Mr. Rosseau follow the trials for 
a season — seems as though his artistic 
eye might be well filled with the sensa- 
tional work of some of our great setters 
and pointers now appearing before the 
public. 
In the mind’s eye we see the rolling 
fields broken here and there by a clump 
of trees — the hard-working brace con- 
testing every inch of ground — the eager 
handlers — the judges — the gallery — and 
then the flashing point and back. Point! 
Judge — flush your hides — the brown 
covey rising to scatter and hide — dogs 
steady — and then on we go until ordered 
up and back to the wagon. 
A T Calhoun, Alabama, the Conti- 
nental Trials have just been con- 
cluded. The winner of the all-age 
stags was the white, black and ticked 
setter dog, Shores Ben, owned by Dr. A. 
F. Stone, of Bay City, Mich., handled by 
John Willard Martin. 
As a suggestion for a beautiful pic- 
ture we quote from the American Field’s 
description of the dog work: “His race 
was perfection, taking it from any view- 
point that one may — he negotiated his 
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