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FOREST AND STREAM 
February, 1920 
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' 1712 1736 (oluftibus Pd.,(Teveland 
Boy’s Queen, a Jingo dog, and he be- 
came one of the greatest producing sires 
of today. He is now retired from stud, 
but ten years ago he entered the Na- 
tional Field Trials against the cream of 
the Llewellins and won out, making the 
first big break of the pointers into the 
field trial aristocracy formerly held al- 
most exclusively by the .setters. Dog 
men of that period will well remember 
the excitement and the discussions 
brought about by that famous trial in 
1907. 
The story of Alford’s John is one 'that 
shows how many a fine dog, whose 
papers have become lost, is apt to spend 
his life hunting in comparative obscurity, 
unknown to the limelight of the National 
Trials, yet no doubt able to hold his 
own with the best of them. A handler 
was trying out two setters, and Alford’s 
John trailed along, uninvited. Once in 
the field, he wiped it up with one setter 
and dusted it off with the other, and the 
handler began to sit up and take notice! 
He took the dog to train, and Alford’s 
John carried everything before him at 
the field trials, winning the champion- 
ship of his day. Then his papers were 
unearthed, and, there you were, — a point- 
er bred in the purple! The story of 
“The Prince and the Pauper” comes ir- 
resistably to mind in the telling of this 
tale, and that is how the sons of Al- 
ford’s John get the peculiar-and unman- 
ageable-name Royal Pauper, for he was 
the royal pauper of dogdom! In picking 
a pointer pup from pedigree, if he shows 
any of the above Big Four in his ances- 
try, or any of their get — he will be well 
worth training! 
I RATHER like a pointer a.s a bird dog 
selection. I never owned one, for I 
prefer a setter as a hunting compan- 
ion, but I have shot over many, owned 
by my friends, and know the dogs well. 
To me they seem more natural hunters 
than the setters, but there is something 
essentially wild and houndy about them, 
due to their foxhound ancestry, that 
makes them a bit unapproachable from 
the human side. In the south they are 
much more practicable dogs, as they 
stand the heat better and are immune 
from that pest, the cockle burr, which 
makes a setter’s life miserable and causes 
his owner many hours of picking and 
shearing in the matted coat. Strange to 
say, more setters than pointers seem to 
he owned in the south, the pointers gen- 
erally being visitors from up north. It 
is probably due to two things; the an- 
cient aristocracy of the setters, for the 
South is slow to change, and the hardi- 
ness of the setter, with his long coat, 
through the cold un-heated winters of 
the South, for, up North the pointer 
generally comes indoors in the winter. 
Two retrievers come to mind as well 
worthy a place in this gossip. Our own 
American product is the Chesapeake, and 
in the Irish Water Spanial he has a close 
rival, albeit one not so well known. The 
Chesepeake is a sturdy respectable look- 
ing dog; quiet, self-contained and cap- 
able; the water spaniel is the clown of 
dogdom, with a weird arrangement of 
curly coat, out of which pokes a smooth 
haired muzzle, yet all his owners swear 
by him as “all dog” — the best and gam- 
est sporting companion and retriever 
that ever went on four legs ! So far as I 
know they are both strictly retrievers, 
having no pointing ability. Dozens of 
letters come in to me telling of the 
wonderful chases through ice, for miles 
out to sea, after a crippled duck that 
have been staged by these dogs, particu- 
larly the Chesapeakes. 
My personal acquaintance with the 
Chesapeake has led me to regard him as 
a quiet, companionable sort of dog, usual- 
ly with yellow eyes and sedge brown 
coat, a rather good-looking creature, of 
some 60 lbs. weight. In point shooting 
he lies quietly, just outside the blind, 
and swims out to retrieve the ducks, 
which he can do, hour after hour, in icy 
November and December weather. Of 
the Irish water spaniel I can say little 
from personal experience, but friends 
who own and breed him say he is even- 
tempered, sociable and affectionate, as 
are all spaniels, and has a fairly good 
nose for snipe, and quail, although not 
to be compared to a first-class setter or 
pointer. To me it would seem that such 
an odd-looking dog would be apt to em- 
barrass his owner a good deal, so 
thoughtless are we in jeering at anything 
that is a bit off our preconceived notions 
of how a sporting dog should look. For 
pedigree names to look for in a Chesa- 
peake pup, I would give the following se- 
lection; — Third generation back; Ches- 
ter, Biownie, Beaver III, Lusitania, 
Water King Ferg’s Bingo, Otter Girl; 
second generation, Beaver’s Rex, Juda, 
Finney’s Pride, Hale’s Dick; present day, 
Clark’s Sea Wolf, Tony T., Chester 
Matthews, and Furlike. Of Irish water 
spaniels; Hooker Oak Hogan, Mister 
Dooley, Widow O’Gara, Florrie Me. 
Carthy, Lady Me. Shane, and Hooker 
Oak Harp are now in the stud in this 
country. The preferred shade of coat is 
reddish brown. 
A MONG Airedales, so many new im- 
portations arrive continuously — or 
did up to the War — that it was ra- 
ther confusing to pick a hunting Aire- 
dale out of the numberless bench show 
families that each new imported cham- 
pion started. Our own Culbertsons, 
Oorangs, Kootenais, etc., are noted for 
being good hunters. Most western 
“varmint men” do not consider their 
Airedales as worth much until they have 
been hunted at least two seasons, never- 
theless there is no doubt that the Aire- 
dale has a lot of hunt in him, and if the 
pup comes of hunting stock he will do 
to train. I constantly get letters from 
all over the country, telling me of the 
really remarkable work of Airedales on 
all kinds of game. A friend in Maine 
wrote of his Airedale bitch which he 
used on grouse, season after season; 
she marked them as well as any setter, 
and her pups show the same hunting 
qualities. On quail, my own dog Blaze’s 
father, Sandy Briar, was a good quail 
dog, and Blaze himself would find them, 
standing rigid in a sort of bench show at- 
titude until I came up. He never hunt- 
ed them in the sense that a bird dog 
would — seek birdy cover looking® for 
them, or work out tracks where they had 
