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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
birds without any previous quartering of
the ground, which, added to his steadi
ness in backing other dogs, rendered him,
it is averred by chroniclers, the best
pointer that had up to then been pro
duced. Some idea of the value of a good
working pointer of a hundred years ago
may be gauged by the following : Dash
was sold to Sir Richard Symonds for
160 ($800) worth of champagne and
Burgundy which had been bought at the
French Ambassador's sale; a hogshead
of claret, an elegant gun and a pointer ;
with the stipulation that if any accident
befell the dog that might render him unfit
to hunt, he was to be returned to Colonel
Thornton at the price of fifty guineas
($262). The dog had the misfortune to
break his leg and was sent to the Colonel,
who paid the fifty guineas according to
agreement, and he was afterward kept
as a stallion, with, however, little suc
cess. Pointers range much more widely here
than they do in Europe, for the simple
reason that the enclosures are ever so
much more capacious and a fast and good
nosed dog is in great demand. Game is
generally more widely distributed than
on the other side, where estates are
strictly preserved and poaching laws very
severe on the trespasser with a gun or
dog in search of game. The remarkable
thing about American dogs is their "bird
sense" ; in other words, the manner in
which they will pick out for themselves
the most likely place to find game. They
will not bother and lose time in hunting
localities where there is little chance of
satisfying their quest, and the conse
quence is that newly imported dogs more
than often find themselves outran and
outpointed by the homebred animal.
Still, there have been cases where English
pointers have won in the field in England,
then here and afterward in England.
In 1800 the late Mr. Hey wood Lonsdale,
of Ightfield Hall, Whitchurch, Salop,
England, sent across a team to compete
at the principal trials. They were han
dled principally by the late William
Brailsford, whose father was one of the
promoters of the first dog shows in Eng
land. The Lonsdale pointers had never
seen a quail in Britain, for there are none,
but Tghtfield Deuce obtained the highest
honors here on that game, and subse
quently repeated her previous English
success on partridge.
The best show pointer in America to
day is Champion Coronation, the property
of Mr. George Bleistein,of Buffalo, N. Y.
She won the gold cup, value $825, for the
best champion of her year before she left
England, and she has been equally suc
cessful here.
There is nothing more delightful than
to shoot over a brace of pointers. They
are such beautiful creatures to look upon
and so full of style and dash. As a re
sult, there is a great demand today for
good looking pointers, and $1,000 is not
an out of the way price even for a show
animal that has no work in him. But so
vast are the sporting interests in America
that no dog no article of trade is more
salable today than a good working and
well trained pointer. Every man who
has a gun and is fond of the sports of the
field wants one, and that means every
body. A large number of men in the
United States and Canada earn an excel
lent competency through breaking dogs,
and, it might be written, they enjoy a
splendid outdoor and consequently a
healthy life at the same time. The cost
of breaking a dog is from $25 to $50, and
he should be in the trainer's hands when
the pointer is from nine to ten months
old.
It is very wonderful to observe the in
stinct or common sense of a pointer.
Somehow or another, when the scent of
game strikes his peculiarly sensitive ol
factory nerves, he becomes cataleptic.
He cannot move, and he will shiver with
pent-up excitement. He knows he is on
to something, which he cannot see, but
to which his nature tells him he must
"stand." And there he points, while his
trainer encourages him to go up closer to
his game. The crucial moment is at
hand if it be a bird it will flush ; if it
be fur it will move away within his very
sight. It is in the spirit of all dogs to
chase; if he dares to he will be rated
until he does not know his soul is his
own ; he has made a mistake, he knows
it, and he is aware for what he is being
punished. And so is he taught that the
gun is the instrument of destruction and
not he.
Puppies at the Kennel.
The local kennels, always a place of
interest for visitors, are particularly at
tractive just now owing to the presence
of as fine a lot of puppies as one could
wish to see.
They romp and frolic in the sunshine,
tumbling over one another in their eager
ness, and young and old are among those
who gather to watch them.
The demand for Pinehurst dogs during
the past summer, was far in excess of the
supply, and already sportsmen are pick
ing hunters from the little fellows which
are now entertaining visitors.
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