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In writing to 
and Swim like! 
|a setter of similar type. 


Types of Cover Dogs 
(Continued from page 393) 
although we have many individual set- 
ters of the so-called imported strain, 
that are capital cover dogs. They are 
so because their owners who have been 
breeding to a cover dog ideal for about 
a quarter of a century, have changed 
the original type of their dogs and fixed 
new characteristics in their strain so 
thoroughly that they are regularly 
transmitted at this time by heredity. 
| Pee ALLEN and Stephen Packer 
did much the same thing for that 
group of settlers that became so nu- 
merous in New England in the early 
seventies. They selected their best 
cover dogs and bred them to the best 
cover dogs they could find and in that 
way created a rather typical group. 
Their dogs were not slow because 
they lacked the conformation for speed. 
They were well-made rather handsome 
dogs of medium weight, trim built and 
able as well as willing to hustle in an 
old huckleberry pasture for a bevy of 
quails and then come down to a slow 
cautious pace in cover while looking for 
ruffed grouse or woodcock. They were 
cautious rather than timid, and had a 
peculiar habit of hunting as far ahead 
as their nose would carry. But they are 
gone. The sportsmen of New England 
are interested at this time in creating 
There is no 
reason why they should not succeed in 
creating a cover group of setters that 
would be superior to the old time Web- 
ster setter, for we know more of breed- 
ing than was known at that time, and 
have field trials and sportsmen’s associ- 
ations aplenty to help along such an 
undertaking. Moreover we have any 
number of individual dogs of superior 
merit upon which to rear such a breed- 
ing structure. These dogs are to be 
found not in New England alone, but 
in the middle states and Canada. If 
they can be selected in an official way 
and the work of selection carried on 
for a few generations, it would not take 
long to pick out a setter particularly 
suited to cover work, by his pedigree. 
HIS work awaits the action of our 
eastern sportsmen’s associations, 
the eastern and northern field trial 
clubs, and breeders who are interested 
in the cover dog as distinguished from 
the racing field trial setter of the south 
and west. 
Hunting Copperhead Snakes 
(Continued from page 395) 
seem to know that they have done their 
utmost, and with continued irritation 
they will reluctantly crawl away, seek- 
advertisers mention Forcst and Stream, 
Tt will identify you. 
ing cover in deeper crevices. R 
treat to them when their poison sa 
is emptied seems to be the better pa 
of valor. 
sane so soon as a few days in. 
captivity I have noticed that they 
lose their vicious striking habit on least 
alarm, and become quite docile. They 
can be moved from one box to another 
on the end of a stick, or their direc- 
tion in crawling changed by means of 
a stick without eliciting any strikes, 
However, injury to them in any way 
will call out the usual reaction, no mat- 
ter how long they are in capitivity. 
On most of my snake hunts a few 
friends ventured, and occasionally only 
one, but on this particular gloomy, 
sultry Saturday afternoon I was alone 
in my desire for excitement. After 
climbing the mountain and searching 
carefully every foot of likely ground 
with no luck, I decided to explore new 
land. A large rock attracted my at- 
tention, due to the fact that it had sey- 
eral possible snake dens in its crevices 
on top. Making my way through the 
brush, I soon climbed up only to find 
things suspicious looking. A _ cool 
breeze was very welcome, and sitting 
down to enjoy it, I wondered, as the | 
perspiration dripped from my face, 
whether I would even get a thrill out 
of this hunt, let alone any game. 
willing to rest long, I slid down the 
opposite side of the huge rock in a 
sitting position, but bumping over a 
small crevice made me halt to inspec 
it. 
TES my surprise there were two cop- | 
perheads with heads erect for ac 
tion, and how they failed to strike my 
legs as I passed by, I don’t know. | 
While clinging on to the face of the 
rock I managed to bag them, one at a 
time, without injuring them in the | 
This exceeded my fondest hopes, | 
least. 
Un- | 




to bag two live copperheads without | 
an assistant, and it called for a last | 
look at their summer home. 
Using the same manner of ascent to 
the crevice and gazing about, I became 
the more alarmed at the sight that 
greeted me this time. 
the outline of two more heads loomed 
up in the dark fastness of the deepest | 
Incidentally, cop- | 
perheads carrying their unborn young 
always travel in twos or fours, never | 
With patience and an uncer-— 
part of the crevice. 
singly. 
tain foothold on the rounded surface 
of the rock, I managed to bag the re- 
maining two snakes and thus, beyond 
all expectation, returned home with 
four live specimens. As evidence that 
they were handled gently during cap- 
ture, I wish to state that in the latter 
part of September each gave birth to 
* 
live young, four to eight in number. 
Unmistakably | 
PR | AE SO a ae 
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