The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
WONDERFUL HUNTING DOGS.
True Stories Told at n Meeting of
Maryland Nimrods.
Baltimore Sun.

Sportsmen find plenty of food for CONVEX
sation in the results of the field trials held
last week in Baltimore. The headquarters
street, have been crowded daily with dog
owners and gunners who have had lively
chin trials.
Mr.. E. B. coe. whose dog won first prize
in the all-age stake at the field trials, said
he had kept tab and found that the number
dogs that are broken better than his had
now reached forty-three. OF these only one
mad a dog entered in the second trials which
the club proposes TO hold.
A member of the club said:
IT has been remarked that a man who
becomes the owner of a dog. a gun or fish
ing rod is at once converted into a prevari-
Gator"
That's so,,' said Mr.. Charles AlIard. "but
truth is stranger than fiction all the time. /
don't see the necessity of stretching a yarn
derful.
Now there was q pointer jip I once
owned. Poor girl, she died long ago, but she
hunted straight for the gun. One day / saw
her on a point. Suddenly she crouched to
the ground. / found she had a live part
from her and killed it. Still the jip did not
arise. Running my hand under her, I pulled
out four more live birds which she had cap
tured."
There was a dead silence for a moment
Broken at last by the crash of a stack OF
empty powder cans which the proprietor OF
the place, Mr.. William Linthicum. topples
over whenever a true story so enormously
4 LIE lid III IL SDIQIG. usually ne
is rewarded with sulphurous reproaches or
q brash offer to bet that the story can be
proved.
81 was once on the Eastern Shore" began
Mr.. Henry Beck, as Mr.. Linthicum stacked
up his cans. when l saw the biggest flock
of blackbirds 1t has ever been my lot ia
observe. As they rose 1 fired at the flock,
but did not kill a bird"
The hearers all arose to take Mr.. Beck's
hand, but he waved them aside.
I'm not through yet" he added. II found,
however, on examining the ground fully a
quarter of a peck of birds feet and legs.
Blest il / hadn't shot to low"
Crash went the cans, and q stuffed cam
vas-oaek duck, which had been suspended
from the ceiling, dropped through the cigar
showcase and shattered the glass.
A sportsman who lives near Eikridge said
he owned a setter dog which, when on a
point, would lift his hind foot and tap thu
ground one time for each bird in the flock.
Edward Cordell said he had a single barrel
which he had killed four mallard ducks. The
four arose simultaneously from the river.
and he shot four times. killing one bird for
each pull of the trigger
e. Il. Coe said his dog flushed a woodcock,
which flew toward him and jammed its
head into the muzzle of the gun, the bird
thus killing itself and saving a load of shot
and powder. Mrs. Rod Coe, father CT the
young man, substantiated the story.
Richard Cantler related that he once sold
a setter puppy. The dog saw its new
the yard. Ever after that the dog, at COM
mand, brought in the wood, piece by piece,
until odrered to stop.
JONI H. WlllldT Sdlu ne was uuchiiiS WIFI
Mr.. Jack Sutton, at the mouth of Romney
creek. A red-head duck flew By just out of
range. Sutton, for practice, threw his gun
10 his shoulder, with no intention of shoot
ing. The duck saw the act and quickened
his fight, but suddenly fell dead into the
broken its neck in watching the gunner.
Mr.. Rod Coe related that Capt. Henry
Wilmer, of Queen Anne's county, owned a
ducking dog. When the Captain ran out Of
shot he showed the dog the empty bag ana
the dog trotted home and brought a fresh
supply. The dog distinguished the different
sizes of shot by taking the shot bags be-
tween his teeth.