San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-31
FOWLING AND
FOWLERS.


hot weather experienced by our
sportsmen materially interiered
with good sport and work of the
dogs.
T. w. Campbell, while out quail
shooting was unfortunate enough
to have his pointer dog bitten on
the nose by rattle-snake. Mr. G.
applied,ammonia to the wonnd and
thoroughly canterized same, which
no doubt had much to do with
saving the dogs life. AT last &C
count the dog was doing nicely and
the swelling had gone down.
Plover is quite scarce on theMar-
celina and sportsmen report that
birds down there are good sprint
ers.
G. B. E., J. W. and E. c., three
jolly good fellows formed shoot
ing party that went to the Hertz.
age place on the Pleasanton road
last Sunday afternoon. They re-
turned with little game but much
experience. While hunting quail
the dog came to a stand near a
clump Of bushes; the boys drew
near ready for rise, when 10 and
behold the dog grabbed hold of
skunk. "You can imagine in what
haste we decamped," said one of
the party. To make the story
short dog did not ride home; each
accused the other of having been
hit; people along the road thought
the party had been skunk hunt
ing and were successful dog in the
country besig disinfected.
Sportsmen and owners of bird
dogs complain that a gang of bad
boys exists in this city who make
it a practice to lure away from
back yards and from the streets
young bird dogs, which they take
to their homes and keep
there until reward is offered by
the owner for their return. Police
should be on the look out for these
boys and when they see member
OF the gang leading an unwilling
dog they should hold them both
pending an investigation.
Many of these dogs are valuable
property and the boys lay them
selves liable to imprisonment in
the state Reformatory.
One way to cure a puppy of kill
| ing chickens is to tie about his
neck the chicken he has done to
death and compel him to wear it
as a token of disgrace, until the
iglominy, of which a dog may be
acutely conscious, shall have
wrought in him repentance and
change of heart. The plan works
admirably with the puppy, but
that is because he is only dog
and lacks human sense. II he
knew as much as a man he would
make headlong for the nearest
studio to have himself and the hen
photographed.
That is what the score fisher
man does. When he has caught
as many as he can log alone or
with the guides assistance, he
poses before the camera, and then
if any doubter refuses to believe
his fish story, he triumphantly
produces the photograph to prove
that he was as mighty a fish
killer as claimed. Next to the as
tonishing satisfaction some fisher
men in killing for count, is this
astonishing custom OF having
themselves photographed in fla
granite delictu, as it were.
The ennobling influences of field
sports are much talked of and
written about, and correctly so.
One Of the ennobling elements in
the sports of shooting and fishing
is willingness to stop when one
has taken his fair share. But
there is nothing elevating in the
bloodthirsty gluttony of the "fish-
hog" or "game hOg"-detestable
names for detestable beasts. On
the contrary, the indulgence of
bestial proclivities in this direc-
ton degrades. The brute who
kills a bushel Of fish to be dumped
on the bank, or midsummer deer
to rot in the woods, comes home
not a nobler but a coarser man
than he went out.
There are anglers and there is
angling. Fishing for count is not
angling, nor are such fishermen
anglers. Is it not high time that
the distinctions were more clearly
realized and the lines more sharp
ly drawn and discriminatory
observed; and that the fisherman
who has himself photographed
with his fish and then consigns
them to the compost heap were
relegated in public estimation to
the limb of the puppy with the
hen about it's neck?-Forest and
Stream.
Messrs. Geo. A. Chabot, Alex
Half and Julius Oppenheimer
Jr., were out at the old Hord
ranch quail hunting last Sunday
and report poor luck.
MesSrs. Joe George and o. G.
Guessaz left for Gum Hollow