November, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
679 
DOGS I HAVE SHOT OVER 
II. BONNIE LASSIE 
By JOHN M. BRIDGES 
Bonnie Lassie, nineteen months old 
1 AM sending you a photograph of my 
dog, “Bonnie Lassie.” I believe her to 
be a mighty good setter; she is just nine¬ 
teen months old. 
I am also sending a letter from my 
friend, Dr. Stuart, who has been in France 
for the past two years. This letter I be¬ 
lieve would be interesting to all sportsmen 
an dog owners, and I have obtained from 
Dr. Stuart’s mother permission to send it 
to you. 
Central Hotel, Nantes, France. 
June 4, 1918. 
Dear John :— 
I was mighty glad to get your letter 
enclosing the photo of your dog this morn¬ 
ing. Believe me she surely is a beauty and 
I don’t blame you for being proud of her, 
:and her breeding is without reproach. If 
I ever get a chance to get over to England 
i shall make a visit to the Llewellyn Ken¬ 
nels, of which I have marked down the 
address in my note book, and if possible 
get a dog puppy to bring home with me 
to breed her, too. The great difficulty is in 
getting to England these days, and about 
he only way to work it is to go home by 
hat route, which seems at present a long 
vay in the future. 
I suppose mother has told you that I 
ave a dog over here that I bought when I 
/as in Brest last fall. He can’t touch your 
og for looks, but is a dandy hunting dog. 
had every Sunday and one afternoon free 
week last autumn and winter to go gun- 
ing and had some fine sport, for I was 
icky enough to be stationed in very good 
unning country, much better than we have 
•ound Carlisle. I killed over him 203 
irtridge, 74 wood cock and between 250 
id 300 Wilson snipe last fall and winter, 
say nothing of a lot of moor hens, rab- 
ts, etc. I wish you could have been there 
January and February for the snipe 
ooting, for I have never had anything 
:e it in my life. There are miles and 
ties of marshes and literally alive with 
snipe. It’s no trouble at all to raise three 
or four hndred snipe in a day’s hunting 
but as with us they are when one starts in 
shooting. The people over here very sel¬ 
dom shoot at them for they are too hard 
for them to hit and do not amount to 
enough when you get them, for shells cost 
eleven cents apiece for 16 gauge and 12 or 
13 cents for 12 gauge. 
There are lots of woodcock but they 
come usually in the very thick evergreen 
brier patches, about eight or ten feet tall, 
that abound in Brittany, and are very hard 
to raise and to hit afterwards unless you 
are in the open and can shoot after they 
clear the top of the thicket. The bird dogs 
here are all taught to flush the woodcock 
themselves and you place a little bell on 
your dog’s collar and send him into the 
thicket, and then wait until you hear him 
stop for an instant before a woodcock, 
and get ready to shoot when you hear the 
“fluff-fluff-ff” of his wings whistling as 
he beats up out of the brush. Like the 
partridges over here, they are from to 
14 larger than our woodcock, although 
their general appearance is exactly the 
same. 
The third variety of game bird one finds 
in abundance in what the French call a 
“pouldeau” and the English a moor-hen. 
It is a slate gray bird, the size of a pigeon, 
that lives in the reedy marshes and along 
the creek banks. It has a very powerful 
effluvia and is dearly loved by all bird dogs, 
but is not much fun to hunt. It is very 
difficult to make fly and as it flies like a 
rail is easy to hit. With characteristic 
economy the bird dogs over here are taught 
by the Frenchmen to catch pouldeau them¬ 
selves and save their shells, which they 
very often do by making a grand plunge 
into a bunch of reeds, and if the dog 
doesn’t catch him, one can shoot him as 
he flies out. I remember one time last 
fall when my dog was pointing a pouldeau ] 
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