Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05
FIELD AND KENNEL
CORNELL .

will prove of great interest. Mr.. Ken
nerly was better known under his pen
name of ''Old Dominion 1t must be
remembered that the Importation of high
class English settlers and pointers from
England first assumed Importance about
1879 when Leicester Dart. Gladstone and
others arrived.
The dog that Mr.. kennerly describes
dates back to about 1885,. He was for a
long time firm believer in the so-called
natives but in the latter years OF his
life became convert to the pure
bloods." although he always had a soft
spot in his heart for the old-time
natives. Writing to the American
Field in 1885,. he says: We'll do l re-
member the very start. the foundation of
all the bird dogs in our section of the
country, now nearly fifty years ago. They
all came from a little orange and white
setter 'rouge,' presented when a puppy
to my old friend Dr. FauntlerOy, by Mr..
Wesley De Butts of LOudoun county. A
man by the name of Richards got hold
of white pointer bitch and entire
neighborhood was stocked with products
of these dogs. d lot of 'drOppers and
unmitigated mongrels which for speed,
range and everlasting endurance never
had their equals earth. l can today
distinctly recall more than dozen or
them every one of whic! was the grand
est of field dogs, only hunting dogs,
nothing OF Mr.. Munson's pointer blood in
theirs-'Fouge' had to be rebroken at
the commencement of each season, and
should his grave ever be discovered by
some enterprising prospector he will as
suredly think he has struck it rich in a
lead mine, sfor If he had one pound of
lead in him he had forty bags
In the same letter this is found: My
esteemed friend Charles Keller of Wash
ington made me his annual visit last
fall he is improving rapidly i'm his
shooting, and if he can only contrive to
obtain his furloughs Oftener from that
everlasting government office he is
bound one day to hoe his row. with the
rest. The only objection l have to him
as shooting companion is that he will
steal my dead birds This will sound
to old-timers like an echo from a long
forgotten past. ''Old Dominion has
but Charley Keller, known to every old
time sportsman i'm Washington, is still
holding down that everlasting govern
ment office in the War Department, and
finds furloughS as infrequent as of yore.
Charley is rearing American grandclil-
dren now, in place of Irish settlers, but
when he sees good setter his eyes have
an old-time fire in them that indicates a
willingness to swap back
1t was given out last week at the White
House that the President was much
amused and interested by the perform
ances given by Jasper, the educated dog.
There are many visitors there of whom
this announcement is not made.
A news item announces that munich
pal abattoir has been opened i'm Berlin.
where dogs are slaughtered for food.
There are lots of them around here that
are not worth killing, let alone eating.
Recently in looking over the photo
graphs of number of settlers that have
ynrp<,
in late years the type of dog that r.
Purcell Llewellin. the noted English
breeder. preferred was called. In
letter written some years ago he said:
I'VE. try to get large bodies on short
legs
Joe Hunter has left for his annual hunt
in North Carolina. He has three settlers
to shoot over. He is one of the old
timers who believes in killing birds when
he goes out.
A. gentleman in this city has recently
received puppy sired by the great point
er champion, Manitoba Rap. The evening
the puppy arrived he was being inspected
by a friend of the owner. The first COM
ment made by this gentleman was: Il
have. never seen brighter more in
telligent expression and ! have never seen
more beautiful eyes given an animal. \
few days after this the owner received a
letter from T. II. Race, part owner of
Iianitoba Rap. and from whom he pur-
chased the puppy. saying: IL want to call
your especial attention to one thing i'm
this fellow the intelligence of his express
sion and the beauty of his eyes-they are
almost human which is indeed fact.
Pointer and setter breeders have surely
to reckon with the get of Manitoba Rap
when they make their bows in the trials
Of the Grand Circuit"
All true sportsmen were shocked to read
Of the sudden death of Senator Jeff Davis
at his home in Little Rock. Few men
loved bird dogs more than Mr.. Davis. and
he was never happier than when talking
about them. The senator was absent from
Washington during the greater part of
last summer but returned to the city the
evening before the democratic convention
Ito which he was a delegate at large,
which met in Baltimore. He telephoned to
two of his friends in this city to call at his
hotel If possible that evening. Now, Mr..
Davis had promised these gentlemen tick
cts to the convention, and they went down
expecting to get them and to hear little
news OH the political situation. When
they reached the senator's room at the
Raleigh he greeted them cordially and
then said. sit right down. / want to have |
good talk about bird dogs and about
bird dogs he talked all evening in pref |
erence to politics. But he had the tickets |
ready for them the next morning, for he |
never forgot to redeem promise.
Verify there is nothing new under the |
sun. If you hear some enthusiast re-
counting some wonderful performance of |
his day refer him to an entry in the |
diary of good Samuel Pepys. who, in |
recording daily the little happenings for
which future generations were to call
him blessed puts this one down under
date lines of September II. 1861: ITO
DIR. Williams. who did carry me into his
garden. where he hath abundapce CT