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F ORES T A N 1) S T R E A M 
February, 1920 
Lyman Receiver Sights 
bring aperture closer to the eye 
without interfering with the action 
of the bolt, and thus greatly in- 
crease the sight radius. This 
makes accurate alignment easier 
and the aim doubly sure. Used 
with disc, they give three sizes of 
aperture, covering practically all 
hunting and target requirements. 
The No. 21 ($4.50) shown here, 
and its companion sight No. 38 
with Windgauge ($6.50), are for 
Winchester 1895 and other models. 
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ITHACA 
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.is is F. O. Williams, 
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Championship of all 
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an Ithaca. Mayor 
Reed won it in 
9 1 8 w i t h an 
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Jr., won it in 
19 17 with an 
Ithaca. That’s 
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The Irish Water Spaniel, Mr. Dooley 
fed in the morning — but, if he ran spang 
onto a covey, he would step and note the 
fact, waiting until I got up with the gun. 
He was poisoned by a bad neighbor be- 
fore he grew much more than out of 
puppyhood, so I had no chance to see 
what he could do with more experience. 
The Culbertson Airedales are noted both 
as lion hunters in the Rockies and on 
priarie chicken in the Dakotas, where 
they are used for retrieving. Another 
Airedale made good on woodcock, and 
his owner wrote me enthusiastcally tell- 
ing of his wonderful work. Altogether it 
seems pretty well established that the 
otter hound ancestry of the Airedale 
survives in him in a certain nose and the 
desire to hunt, and it crops out in cer- 
tain individuals in spite of the strenuous 
efforts to make him all terrier. About 
the only way to get one that will not be 
hopeless as a hunting proposition is to 
make sure that his parents have had 
hunting experience, and our .sporting 
magazines, particularly the trapping 
ones, are full of advertisements of litters 
from Airedales that are hunting today. 
From these it .should not be difficult to 
make a selection. 
The same method of selection applies 
to the coonhounds, the distinctively Amer- 
ican hound that has nothing to do with 
the foxhound but was bred down from a 
mixture of French, Spanish and English 
hounds brought over by the settlers. 
From these was developed the American 
coonhound, .selecting the best hunters to 
breed from, for our meat ran wild in 
those days and a hound was a most use- 
ful adjunct of the woodsman. The Red- 
bone, Walker, Pennsylvania and J. E. 
Williams strains of coonhounds come 
to mind as good ones to select from. 
Names do not count for as much a,s they 
do with setters and pointers; all over 
the South and Central West coonhounds 
get traded and studded around among 
the backwoodsmen, and a puppy from 
any pair of noted hunting dogs of these 
strains will run true to form. With 
coonhounds a great deal depends on the 
amount of education expended upon them. 
He who catches a coon alive and uses 
him to train his hound pup by running a 
trail, tying the coon in a tree, etc., will 
have much quicker results from his pup- 
py than the man who just lets him find 
out by experience. 
One of the most popular of all hunting 
dogs in America is the rabbit beagle. He 
comes down to us almost unchanged from 
his English type, and new ones are be- 
ing constantly imported to improve the 
breed. They all .seem naturally good 
hunters and are seldom addicted to gun- 
shyness. Field trial clubs all over the 
country have kept the stock free from 
bench show deterioration, so it is quite 
easy to get good beagle puppies that will 
be born hunters. The Rowett, Forrest, 
Elmore and Chimer strains have done 
much for the breed here. The four Row- 
ett dogs, Warrior, Rosey, Sam and Dolly, 
figure far back in the pedigree of the 
Rowett pup of today. Of Warrior and 
Rosey we had Rattler, who was exten- 
sively bred to; and Bellman, mated to a 
Rowett bitch, gave us Dan D., winner of 
the 1902 trials. Frank Forrest of the 
New England beagles, mated to Sue of 
the Elmore strain, produced Ch. Clyde, 
and Clyde’s son, Trick, won in his time, 
making three straight champions in the 
Forrest line. 
Other good ones of that period were 
Myrtel, Lady Novice, Spinaway, Rubina 
II and Fashion, which will apt to be 
found back in the third cr fourth genera- 
tion of present-day pedigrees. Of the 
small beagles Ch. Bannerman was a good 
one, also Lady Belle B. Bannerman was 
brought over to counteract the tendency 
to run over size that troubled the beagle 
breeders of that time. Since then, by 
extensive breeding and importation, the 
list of beagles has grown too large to go 
over exhaustively without leaving out too 
many important dogs. A purchase from 
any of the good field trial beagle litters 
of today will not result in disappoint- 
ment, for the dogs are hunted all the 
time and must make good or fall out of 
the limelight altgether. 
F OXHOUNDS we consider such a spe- 
cialized breed as to be rather out of 
the limits of this article. What has 
been attempted here is to give the reader 
some idea of how our hunting dogs stand 
today as worthy descendants of noted 
sires and bridge the gap betwen them 
and the champions who have gone down 
in history in imperishable type. 
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A WINTER HOME FOR 
WILD-FOWL 
(continued from page 61) 
T HIS delta is a very pleasant resort 
for wild fowl, but nowhere under 
natural surroundings are wild crea- 
tures freed from enemies. Most wild life 
belongs either to the pursuer class or to 
the class pursued. In nature might 
makes right; or at least might triumphs. 
The enemies that these wildfowl of the 
Santee delta encounter are many, and of 
these, formerly, the worst was the negro 
hunter. Pushing about in his dugout 
cypress canoe, which was hardly visible, 
he took heavy toll of ducks. White men, 
also, made it their business to kill ducks 
for the market. But legislation, and the 
passing of most of the lands on the delta 
into the hands of a good spostsman’s club, 
have stopped this kind of pot-hunting. 
While sportsmen bag many duck, they do 
not follow the game constantly as does 
the market hunter. 
After man, the enemy of which wild- 
fowl stand most in dread is the bald 
eagle. This great bird is found in num- 
bers on the wide delta and on the lonely 
coastal islands and, during the winter, 
appears to prefer wild duck to any other 
