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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1921 
DOGS 
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In transactions between strangers, the 
purchase price in the form of a draft, 
money order or certified check payable to 
the seller should be deposited with some 
disinterested third person or with this of- 
fice with the understanding that it is not 
to be transferred until the dog has been 
received and found to be satisfactory. 
AIREDALES 
AIREDALE BITCH— HUNT ANYTHING; 
retriever; $20. Skunk and vermin dog, hunt 
anything, $15. Charles Imre, West Milford, 
New Jersey. 
LIONHEART AIREDALES — THE ALL- 
round dogs, are sold on a dead open and shut 
guarantee of satisfaction. Although we do less 
advertising than any kennel of like size, we re- 
ceive inquiries from all over America and many 
foreign countries, for Lionheart Airedales; have 
satisfied customers in 36 different States and four 
provinces of Canada. As hunters of all furred 
game, retrievers of waterfowl, stock dogs, watch 
dogs and companions for children, they have no 
superiors. Write for signed testimonials and list 
of puppies for sale. Lionheart Kennels, Box 
1412, Anaconda, Montana. 
REGISTERED AIREDALE BITCH IN 
whelp to Champion Tintern Tip Top. Also fine 
pups by Tip Top. Caswell Kennels, Toledo, Ohio. 
COLLIES 
REGISTERED COLLIE PUPS, SABLES, 
whites, $10, $25. ElBriton Farm, Route 1, Hud- 
son, New York. 
WHITE COLLIES, BEAUTIFUL, INTELLI- 
gent, refined and useful; pairs not a kin for sale. 
The Shomont, Monticello, Iowa. 
GUN DOGS 
FOR SALE— ENGLISH, IRISH, LLEWEL- 
lyn setter pups and trained dogs Irish water 
spaniels, Chesapeake Bay retrievers, pointers in 
pups and grown dogs. Enclose stamps for 
lists. Thoroughbred Kennels, Atlantic, Iowa. 
NORWEGIAN BEAR DOGS— IRISH WOLF 
Hounds, English Bloodhounds, Russian Wolt 
Hounds, American Fox Hounds, Lion, Cat, Deer, 
Wolf, Coon and Varmint Dogs; fifty-page high- 
ly illustrated catalogue, 10c stamps. Rookwood 
Kennels, Lexington, Kentucky. 
POINTER DOGS AND BITCHES PEDI- 
greed and not; all broken; state which wanted. 
H. H. McGovney, Lake City, Florida. 
RABBIT, BEAGLE, FOX, COON, SKUNK, 
opossum hounds; pet and farm dogs; swine 
Catalogue, 4c. stamps. Kiefer’s Kennels, Lan- 
caster, Pennsylvania. 
SELL BEAGLE BITCH RAISED IN THE 
woods; real hunter; one that will stay. Leo 
Coodrich, Turtlepoint, Pennsylvania. 
WESTMINSTER KENNELS, TOWER HILL, 
Illinois, offers fox, wolf, coyotte, coon, skunk, 
opossum hounds. Crackerjack rabbit hounds at 
$17.50 each. Dogs just starting to trail, $13. 
Choice puppies. Broken dogs sold on ten days’ 
trial. Description price list ten cents, stamps 
or coin. 
HUNTING DOGS 
BEAGLE, RABBIT HOUNDS, FOXHOUNDS, 
coon, oppossum, skunk, squirrel dogs, setters, 
pointers, bear, deer, wolf hounds. Circulars, 10c 
Browns Kennels, York, Pennsylvania. 
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG STAG HOUND FOR 
sale. Write John Prettyman, Dunlap, Iowa. 
BRED POINTER BROOD AND SHOOTING 
bitch, 3 years old, a well trained shooting mitch 
and a nice retriever. Just bred to a registered 
dog. Price $250. Litter sister, just as good a 
shooting bitch, very handsome; due in season 
any time. Price $200. Llewellin setter bitch, 
2 years old, thoroughly trained and as well 
bred as any Llewellin could be. Just been 
bred to a Llewellin stud dog. Price $250. 
Llewellin setter bitch, 3 years old, unbred. Ex- 
cellent shooting bitch and a proven brood bitch. 
Due any time. Price $200. Registered pointer 
and setter dog. Best of breeding, trained by a 
professional and absolutely perfect shooting 
dogs, fine retrievers, $400 each. Pointer dog, 3 
years old, registered and a dandy in the field. 
Does it all. Price $250. Registered setter dog, 
2 years old, good range and speed and a fine re- 
retriever. Very stanch on point, $275. Har- 
mon Sommerville, Amite, Louisiana. 
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HUNTING RABBITS WITHOUT A 
DOG 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
1 AM twenty years old and I admire 
Forest and Stream and the good 
work it is doing just as much as though 
I were a veteran. 
I read in your January number H. B. 
Atkinson’s views on rabbit hunting and 
I cannot help disagreeing with him, es- 
pecially his dogless expedition. 
Undoubtedly there is much satisfac- 
tion in getting rabbits without the aid 
of a beagle, but is there much satisfac- 
tion in knowing that a good many rab- 
bits which one has shot at on the jump 
are now carrying broken legs or other 
injuries? During the past hunting 
season I have found three or four rab- 
bits in one day that had died of shot 
wounds, and more than one telltale 
bunch of fur showing the deadly work 
of a fox or an owl; undoubtedly this 
can be laid at the door of the dogless 
gunner. 
Once in a while a bird or rabbit can 
be found after having been shot and 
wounded but more often it is left to 
suffer. Once a person has hunted with 
dogs and is awake to the fact that he 
is running down a good bit of game 
that would otherwise be left after hav- 
ing been wounded, I think he would 
forego dogless expeditions. 
I think Mr. Atkinson is right in say- 
ing that it is poor sportsmanship to 
shoot a rabbit in its bed. Game is dis- 
appearing too fast not to give every 
kind of game a fair chance for its life. 
If there was more co-operation among 
gunners our game would be on the in- 
crease instead of the decline; but how 
is one sportsman going to offset the 
Who said rabbits? 
damage done by a dozen pot-hunters? 
The State of Maryland is doing a fine 
work in stocking its reservations with 
game, which in a few years should pro- 
duce good shooting but let us hope for 
the good of the sport that the State will 
enforce its game laws. 
Harold W. Newkirk, Maryland. 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
H AVING just finished reading a let- 
ter on rabbit shooting in a recent 
number of your magazine, which start- 
ed off by condemning the use of a dog 
and comparing it to deer drives of roy- 
alty, where the deer were driven up for 
kings to shoot, I must protest the grow- 
ing tendency among sportsmen to pro- 
nounce judgment on a legitimate sport 
without thought as to the sentence they 
are handing out. 
The only bright side to this arrange- 
ment is that the judge does not read up 
on the case before giving his sentence. 
Does the rabbit shooter go forth with 
his trusty hound and pick out a rock on 
which to mount, while the hound scours 
the countryside in quest of rabbits 
which he drives frantically by to be pot- 
ted? He does not. 
In the first place the dog goes where 
you go. He is not fond of breaking 
through berry thickets unless you are 
inclined to jump in too. In the second 
place he does not drive the rabbit but 
just tags along as it were, the rabbit 
leads the way. Thirdly, the rabbit has 
to start moving before the dog can trail 
him. Sometimes the dog starts the rab- 
bit, but more often he is jumped by 
much stomping through thick cover by 
the hunter. 
It is after the rabbit is started be- 
fore the dog, that the hunter mounts 
the rock, stump, or picks out his sta- 
tion, and it is a gamble whether he 
gets a shot at him or not, if he dashes 
by; he has been known to hole up. 
Sometimes he runs on the wrong side, 
or so frantically that you miss him, and 
it takes quick judgment to pick out the 
rock he will pass. 
In this state the bag limit on rabbits 
is five in one day, and in the season just 
past I only made it once. The aver- 
age bag of our party, with three 
hounds chasing them frantically by us, 
is not over three rabbits each, and this 
is when the trailing is at its best. 
There is another side to the dog ques- 
tion — the wounded rabbit. I have seen 
a rabbit make off on one leg faster 
than you could follow and find him. 
But the dog will locate him, and bring 
him to you. If only for that give me 
the dog. 
If you know the habits of rabbits, you 
can kick out and shoot as many without 
a dog as with one. But there is a fas- 
cination and a sporting chance about a 
rabbit running before a beagle that 
should have to call for no apology from 
a sportsman. A. E. Brown, Mass. 
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