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Show PEltMgM ... By Grantland Rice More than 100 years ago an English brig was wrecked off the coast of Maryland. Mary-land. From that wreck came the antecedents of the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Retriev-er, one of the best friends the American sportsman and conservationist has today. to-day. The crew and cargo and two Newfoundland puppies, a male and female, were rescued from the wrecked ship by an American vessel. History does not tell us that either the crew or cargo were particularly important, but the record of the dogs speaks for itself. The salvaged canines wTere wonderful retrievers. In time they were bred with the Maryland hounds. Through years of breeding and cross-breeding that marvel of hunting efficiency, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Even though his ancestors were rescued from an English ship, the Chesapeake Chesa-peake Bay Retriever is the only native..American sporting dog, because those anctesors were enroute from Newfoundland when their craft piled up and they were crossed with hounds as American, as apple pie for breakfast. In recent years interest in the Chesapeake Bay retriever hag grown by t- ' Many women of Greece have taken up the study of dentistry and have qualified either at the Athens University or abroad. bounds and leaps. This interest has spread, of course, to other breeds of dogs that have a natural instinct for retrieving game, or which can be taught to retrieve. Most of these other hunting dogs do not have backgrounds quite as spectacular as the Chesapeake Chesa-peake Bay retriever, but their family tree can be traced back farther. The spaniel family, for instance, is one of great age. We find mention of spaniels as far back as 500 years. Later this family was divided into two groups the land and water spaniels. The springer ' spaniel member of this family conies by his name in rather a peculiar manner. His antecedents were originally known as spring- ' adapted to use in the fieldi he has other virtues of equal importance. im-portance. The work of the setter is of the same tye as that of the pointer The setter is a longhaired long-haired dog, which the pointcrf of course, is not. So much for the history and antecedents of a few of our best sporting dogs. One might go on for days discussing the background back-ground and sporting uses of setters, set-ters, spaniels, retrievers, fox hounds, beagles, bird dogs, et al, without doing justice to the subject. sub-ject. Many dog lovers spend lifetimes studying and discussing the subject, but never learn all there is to know about dogs. ing spaniels, because of their habit of springing towards game to flush it. They do their job in the field well. That job is to put the game in the air, not to point it, and to retrieve it. The cocker sapniel is such a fine pet, such a sterling companion compan-ion that he has become not only one of the most popular hunting breeds in the country, but a universal uni-versal house pet as well. This long-eared little fellow dterives his name from the fact that he was primarily used for woodcock hunting. It is not known where the pointer point-er originated. It was once believed be-lieved the dogs first used in England En-gland for pointing come from Spain and Portugal, but it seems more likely that pointers came into in-to being in Spain, Portugal, the British Isles and throughoul eastern- Europe at the same time At any rate, the pointer comes bj his name in a perfectly ' loglca manner. He was the first doi known to "stand" game, in the sense that we use the term today and was developed as a distincl breed many years ago.. There seems little doubt that the fox hound, greyhound, spaniel, pos sibly the bloodhound and maybf the bull dog, all had a share ir his lineage. The modern pointer is everj inch a specialist gun elog. Ideal |