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...subtleties of modern advertising" I have compared the Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s advertisement in TIME, Oct. 21 with the letter of Mr. George M. Rascoe, TIME, Nov. 11, p. 72. From the latter I quote: "His dogs are a springer spaniel . . . and some sort of a fox hound. . . . For either birds or rabbits the two dogs would be as ridiculous as the riding boots. . . . And now the old pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort of an American game bird. . . . Personally, I'm going...
...from a 10 or 16-gauge gun at that distance is indeed an expert. The riding boots are of course ridiculous-but hunting is not always a matter of walking a great distance. To limit "up the trail" hunting to rabbits and birds is as presumptive as calling the hound a fox hound. More likely, it is a rabbit hound which many eastern hunters find quite indispensable. The red-mittencd gentleman's gesture might fit in many a hunting yarn...
...rich because his father is vice president of Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard (class of 1930) young Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Warburg, another rich man's son, started a Society for Contemporary Art, exhibited painting, sculpture, photography. As an undergraduate Kirstein founded the magazine Hound & Horn, kept it intellectually alive until 1934 when dancing became his dominant interest. With Edward Warburg, Kirstein then founded the School of American Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving...
...assume that he is going either for birds or rabbits? You don't need dogs for rabbits so we will say that he's after for birds. His dogs are a springer spaniel - all right for ducks and other water fowl - and some sort of a fox hound. Do you shoot foxes for sport in the East? For either birds or rabbits, the two dogs would be as ridiculous as the riding boots...
Used as early as the 15th Century to hunt badgers, dachshunde are also useful for rabbits, foxes, woodchucks, any other animal which goes to ground. In a field trial credit is given not only for finding & trailing game but also for the energy & skill with which a hound enters its quarry...