. Rod and gun . lly and will killa fair percentage of their hares. Basset hounds give beautiful tongue,and when bred to type, with due regardto color and conformation, it is a greatpleasure to watch them at work. On this side the Atlantic they wouldprove to be most valuable for huntinggame to the gun. Hares, rabbits, foxesand other denizens of the woods andfields would make ideal quarry for them,and if bred large enough, bassets wouldprove very useful on much larger andsavager game. I should like to see this type of houndreceive more attention in America thanhas hitherto been accorded to it, b
. Rod and gun . lly and will killa fair percentage of their hares. Basset hounds give beautiful tongue,and when bred to type, with due regardto color and conformation, it is a greatpleasure to watch them at work. On this side the Atlantic they wouldprove to be most valuable for huntinggame to the gun. Hares, rabbits, foxesand other denizens of the woods andfields would make ideal quarry for them,and if bred large enough, bassets wouldprove very useful on much larger andsavager game. I should like to see this type of houndreceive more attention in America thanhas hitherto been accorded to it, but I donot want to see it transformed into amere show type, and spoiled for fieldwork, as have so many other breeds ofsporting dogs. Shows are all right for some few breeds,such as bull-dogs, pugs, and other mon-strosities, but the working types, as onecan easily see in these modern days, areinfinitely better if they receive the leastpossible contamination from the tar-brush of the show-rinp-. A Famous Gun Borer. E\ERY lover of the gun will be de-lighted with the appearance on ourcover for the present month ofUncle Bob Edwards, the noted borer ofthe Ithaca guns. Uncle Bob. as he isfamiliarly and widely known, is the old-est and by far the best-known barrel bor-er in the world. Sportsmen travel fromfar and near to Ithaca to see the veteranto whose skill they owe many fine shots. As far back as l»bl, during the ever-memorable civil war, Uncle Bob madebarrels for the government, and period of upheaval did his work asquietlv, calmlv and efficiently as he eveidid in the piping times of peace. Hislong experience has increased his skiland the Ithaca guns show today how welhis efficiency is maintained. Another of Uncle Bobs distinctions i- A FAMOUS GUN BORER 163 that he is the only man in the UnitedStates who ever made twist and Damas-cus barrels in America. The Ithaca Gun Company have en-joyed the advantages of Uncle Bobs serv-ices for tw^enty-six years, and the com-pany c
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