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

grapes, and he did show me a dog he
hath which do kill all the cats that come
hither to kill his pigeons. and do after
wards bury them. and do it with so much
care that they shall be quite covered;
that if the tip of the tail hang out lie
will take up the cat again and dig the
hole deeper-which is very strange" 1t
certainly was friend Samuel, and
Oft in the Silly night.
Ere slumbcr's chains have bound Is,
We'd gladly give a Ileweilin two
For one like him around
The entries for the National Champion
ship, the most coveted of all stakes in
this country, have closed with five point
ers and fourteen settlers eligible to start
at Grand Junction, Tenn. January "a.
1919. Not all of these will start, but
there will undoubtedly be a good field.
The pointers are comanche Frank, Sc
curity. Success, Martins Kentucky Dot
and John Proctor. The settlers are, JACK
Counts Whitestone, Cowley's Pride. Ben
stone. Manitoba May. Powhatan. Pitch
fork Roy. La Besita. Phillipdes, Babb!e-
brook Joe. Mobile and Momoney.
Grand old Count Whitestone is dead.
but he has six sons and daughters to try
for another championship sfor his name.
Field and Kennel is not given to
making dope" on field trial races. but
would not be surprised to see Momoney
and Comanche Frank run one-two.
The catalogue of the Washington Cat
Club is out. Miss Marion l.. West is
secretary of the club and Mrs. l.. II. Blk
by manager of the show, which will be
held January 16 IL and Is. The place for
holding it has not been. definitely decided
on yet. but it will probably be held i'm the
old Masonic building at 9th and + streets.
To one not verSed in cat lore the cata-
logue is an interesting document. For in
stance, one learns that IAN Ameri-
can-ored cat is q cat born in America. J"
A brace of cats is two. and Il team
is three or more. But the most aston
ishing thing about it is that there are
25S different classes of cats enumerated,
and 36S prizes to be awarded. pedigree
is not required for each cat. But then it
would indeed be "a wise cat that knows
its own" etc.
Wi-fam Il. Major. jr. a well known
New York sportsman, who shoots grouse
or cartridges every fall in Connecticut
and quail every winter i'm the south, con-
tributes his heaviest pheasant to that
three-pound controversy. MIR. Major sell
dom fails to bag the legal limit of thirty
six, and says the heaviest grouse he ever
killed weighed thirty-five ounces.
Bear in mind that Alexandria county
Va. lying just over the river, closed it's
season January l. Ignorance of the law
won't save you.
The alleged killing of the English
pheasantS recalls an eXperie nee of that
brilliant but eccentric genius Leo Wheat.
formerly well known in Washington and
in choice Bohemian circles in every con-
tineHtal capital as we'll. He was a gre at
bass fisherman and on his beautiful
estate near Berryvil.e. Va. damned "a
spring branch and made a fish pond. He
would catch bass in the Shenandoah,
carry them home alive, weigh them. mark
the weight and date on IA specially de-
signed tag. attach the tag to the tail of
the fish and release it in his pond. He
had his pond stocked to repletion when d
freshet carried away his frail dam, and
with it his fine bass all Of which landed
in a safer pond on the farm of a Pennsyl-
vania Dutchman. lower down the stream.
He hated Wheat. but liked his bass. and
after he had eaten the last of them all
of the tags We're returned to Wheat with
the message that der fish vas fine Mr..
Wheat never damned his stream again.
but devoted his great talents in that par
ticular line to the Dutchman.
Brooker Hooe, who lives on the Knox
farm. in Prince Georges county, has been
preserving four coveys of birds all
through the season for the benefit of his
broken leg did not mend in time for him
to fire shot. But the birds are all there
for brooders and there will be something
doing next fall.
Frank Symanoski has had good luck
shooting on the Eastern branch and has
bagged a fine lot of ducks.
George Mountjoy and party of
friends spent week in the vicinity OF
Norfolk and had splendid sport. The
hunting was very hard on dogs not &C.
customed to the country, as the birds
took cover in the canebrakes, and dogs
not used to this could not handle them.
But it did not stop the home dogs. and
Mr. Mountjoy says we nave lots to learn
about bird dogs.
Cecil Hufty says he found more birds
during the season in the country around
Washington than did the majority OF
those who took long trips.
A well known sportsman of this city
owns a very promising young dog, but
has not time at his disposal to devote
to its training. He thinks SO highly Of
her qualities that he communicated with
two leading southern trainers for their
terms for handling her long enough to
get her under control and give her some
experience on birds. The major part of
her breaking he wished to do himself.
Each trainer offered to take the dog for
$3.50 month. One of them, and he is
one of the best i'm the country. said that
he could do nothing with dog under
four months time. This gives some idea
of the actual cost of having dog broken.
One hundred dollars is about the lowest
figure at which a first-clasS trainer will
consider turning over dog as ready to
be shot over.