. All about Airedales; a book of general information valuable to dog lovers and owners, breeders and fanciers. Airedale terrier. 150 ALL ABOUT AIREDALES them, but never runs them. At night when I pick up the milk buckets he is off for the cows and drives them up slowly, and no matter where I am, he is always on hand ready to ;— J. W. Gregg, Gazelle, California. Hunting in Washington. In the pursuit of big game in the State of Washington, experiences with the Airedale are similar. Mr. A. E. Mc- Sorley, formerly of Elma, has hunted the Airedale much in company with hounds. He writes: &
. All about Airedales; a book of general information valuable to dog lovers and owners, breeders and fanciers. Airedale terrier. 150 ALL ABOUT AIREDALES them, but never runs them. At night when I pick up the milk buckets he is off for the cows and drives them up slowly, and no matter where I am, he is always on hand ready to ;— J. W. Gregg, Gazelle, California. Hunting in Washington. In the pursuit of big game in the State of Washington, experiences with the Airedale are similar. Mr. A. E. Mc- Sorley, formerly of Elma, has hunted the Airedale much in company with hounds. He writes: "I killed two wildcats yesterday and enjoyed a fine chase. We had three Airedales and three hounds and I tell you we had some fine music. * * * Last week we took Ruler out with a couple of hounds after a big bear. They gave him a hot chase all day, in and out of hearing, but the timber and brush was so dense we could not get near enough for a shot. Night coming on, we had to go home without the dogs. The next afternoon a farmer came to town with the hounds. He had heard the dogs baying and barking in the woods near his place, and went out there and killed the bear they had kept treed all night. He had at- tempted to skin the bear, but the Airedale would not let him touch it. I hitched up my rig and drove out with him five miles and found Ruler a mighty glad dog to see me and be released from his vigil. "The dogs trailed a bob-cat the other day for several hours. Hearing them making toward the head of the gulch, I took Lady Marvel with me and crossed to where the cat would have to come and no sooner got there than Marvel saw it coming along a wind-fall and she closed in with it at once and after a hard fight killed it alone. As the other dogs came up trailing, I held them, to see if she could make the kill herself, which she certainly did with utmost ;. Lady Marvel An old-timer, a winner in 1903 and a real sporting Please note that these image
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