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derful retrieving powers of whose ancestors are 
fully set forth in the records of the big bags 
of days gone by. 
He has also been successfully crossed with 
the great St. Bernard, with a resultant type pos¬ 
sessing the massive form and historic virtues of 
both. As a retriever, the Newfoundland has no 
equal. He will fetch from the water anything 
ranging from a human being to a marked stone. 
Many years ago, so I was informed by a re¬ 
liable old fisherman, the ice rafted in a remote 
harbor on the south coast. There was a small 
lake of water between the edge of the ice jam 
and the shore, and this was filled to ovet flowing 
with wild ducks, numbering thousands. A resi¬ 
dent of the place, with a six-foot Poole gun, 
came along with his dog and fired a heavy load 
into the birds. He killed over seventy, and his 
faithful dog plunged in, and in repeated trips 
brought over fifty to land. At last the exertion 
and ice cold water chilled him, and with a de¬ 
spairing cry he dropped his bird and looked long¬ 
ingly at his master. He was thoroughly ex¬ 
hausted, when the fisherman took off his coat 
and vest and plunged in and rescued his faith¬ 
ful friend. He then wrapped the dog in his 
coat and vest and hurried home, where, with 
warmth and stimulants, the good dog was re¬ 
stored to his wonted vigor and strength. 
My informant further told me of a sad acci¬ 
dent which later happened this same man and 
dog. He and his brother, accompanied by the 
dog, went some miles in the woods looking for 
caribou. The brothers separated, and in course 
of the morning our friend saw something mov¬ 
ing in the bush. He fired, and next moment, to 
his horror, realized he had accidentally shot his 
brother. In his despair he was tempted to shoot 
himself, but eventually he took the body of his 
dead brother on his back, and one can imagine 
his feelings on his sad journey home. The dog 
meantime stood sentry over the guns and game, 
and it was with great difficulty some neighbors, 
who sought him a couple of days later, could 
get him either to come home or relinquish his 
master’s property. 
Tales of his fidelity in this respect are so 
numerous as to cause but little wonder. Only 
last year two young men, while shooting near 
Cape Mutton, on the south coast, were lost 
over the cliff. When a search party went out 
they found the faithful dog lying beside the 
guns, and for several days he would not let 
anyone approach them. 
At Rose Blanche the winter fishery is con¬ 
ducted in very deep water, so that when the fish 
come to the surface the gills often break and 
the fish falls off the hook. Every boat has a 
dog or two on board, and the very instant the 
fish leaves the hook the dog dives and secures 
it and brings it to the side of the boat. In this 
way many fish are saved in the course of the 
day. 
Jukes, the eminent geologist who visited New¬ 
foundland about a century ago, tells of a dog 
he saw sitting under a flake. Sculpins were 
very plentiful, and when one would come near 
enough, the dog would dive and secure him and 
drop him in a pile behind him. Jukes says that as 
the dog did not eat the fish, it was evident that 
he was fishing, not for food, but for pleasure. 
When the present King Edward, as Prince of 
Wales, in i860 made a tour around the world 
he was the recipient of a vast number of valu¬ 
able presents, but he valued none he received 
more highly than Cabot, a pure bred Newfound¬ 
lander, presented by the inhabitants. Cabot for 
many years was a favorite of the Prince. When 
the present Prince and his amiable consort in 
the course of their journey around the world 
in 1901 visited Newfoundland the school chil¬ 
dren of the island presented them for Prince 
Eddie, their eldest son, with a splendid speci¬ 
men of a pure bred Newfoundland, harnessed 
into a highly polished natural oak dog-cart, with 
silver and nickel finish, geared with ball-bear¬ 
ing fittings and rubber tires. This graceful act 
not only came as a pleasant surprise to the 
Prince and Princess, but it also went deeper 
and touched the hearts of the father and mother 
who, after their long voyage, were yearning for 
a sight of their first-born. 
It is- regrettable that local dog lovers never 
took any steps to keep the breed pure. While 
many mongrels are degenerate specimens of the 
noble Newfoundland, there are some cross 
breeds that still retain all its best qualities. 
The dog in various outports substitutes the 
• NEWFOUNDLAND DOG AND CART PRESENTED TO PRINCE 
EDWARD BY THE CHILDREN OF THE ISLAND. 
horse for faithful service to its master. He 
helps to haul fuel and timber, and in many 
places the mail carriers have to depend solely 
on their dogs. The fierce snow-drifts during the 
stormy winter nights would often cause the 
death of the mail men were it not for the 
sagacity and fidelity of their trusty dogs, who 
will pilot their charges in safety to some haven 
of refuge when all human skill would prove 
of no avail. 
It is not yet too late to make an effort to 
keep the strain comparatively pure; in fact, the 
kennel clubs of England and the United States 
have succeeded in keeping purer breeds than 
we have, and some effort should be made locally 
to get a pedigree stock. 
Newfoundland has been ever famous for its 
dogs, and those who know them and love them 
agree that they are strong, beautiful and majes¬ 
tic; brave, kindly and faithful; and will indorse 
the poet’s saying, that they possess all “the vir¬ 
tues of man without his vices.” 
W. J. Carroll. 
Cow Moose and Calf. 
Mr. Townsend Lawrence, who took the ex¬ 
cellent photograph of the cow moose and her 
calf, seen on the front cover of Forest and 
Stream this week, has told us how the picture 
came to be taken. He says: 
“We knew that moose were in the habit of 
crossing the head of this bay, in Island Lake, 
N. B., keeping near the shore in the shallow 
water, and with a flat stump as a tripod we 
watched for them there morning and evening. 
After about ten days of this we took this photo¬ 
graph just after sunset, with five seconds’ ex¬ 
posure, and at about forty feet. I think the 
moose would have come closer if they had not 
seen the movements I made in adjusting the 
camera. I had plenty of time to make the ex¬ 
posure, for a moose will always stand perfectly 
motionless for a time, when it finds itself sud¬ 
denly face to face with man at a short distance. 
A motionless man—down wind, of course— 
seems usually to be regarded by them as a stump 
or a rock and therefore as harmless. Even 
clothing of a striking color does not seem to 
disturb them. I have seen them pay no appar¬ 
ent attention to a man wearing a white cap, so 
long as he did not move, although they caught 
any movement which he made very quickly. 
"This photograph was taken in October, 1904, 
and was my first good live game photograph. 
To take big game pictures during the hunting 
season is quite a different matter from taking 
them in the summer when the animals are off 
their guard.” 
Alameda Sportsmen. 
Four hundred sportsmen, members of the 
Alameda County Fish and Game Protective As¬ 
sociation and their invited guests from other 
cities, attended the third annual barbecue of the 
Alameda County Association at Camp Bonita, 
California, on Aug. 8. 
The day was ideal for the outing. The setting 
for the banquet, with long lines of tables placed 
under the spreading branches of giant oaks, 
could not be surpassed, and the attendance was 
gratifyitigly large. 
According to a California paper it was a ban¬ 
quet to be remembered. The finest of beef and 
mutton, roasted under the watchful direction of 
Walter R. Welch, of Santa Cruz, that past 
master in the art of barbecuing meat, of whom 
more anon, salad, vegetables, bread and butter 
and liquid refreshments. 
Through it all the best of good fellowship 
prevailed. These men are good sportsmen. 
They were out to get acquainted with each 
other and formality was banished from the 
grounds. Much talk there was of game preser¬ 
vation and the enforcement of game laws, and 
none left the barbecue without a firm resolve 
to be a better citizen and a more loyal Cali¬ 
fornian. 
There were many interesting features con¬ 
nected with the day’s events. One of these was 
the reception tendered Walter R. Welch, fish, 
game and fire warden of Santa Cruz county, 
who had charge of the barbecue. Hundreds of 
Welch’s friends shook him by the hand. Scores 
spoke a word of encouragement to the man who 
is making a clean fight in Santa Cruz against 
an “interest ridden” board of supervisors which 
seeks to oust him from his position. Welch is 
recognized as an independent man who is honest 
in his desire to see the game laws enforced with 
favor to no man, and his work in behalf of 
game preservation has come in for much com¬ 
mendation. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
