Word: quails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclose a picture of my young Setter "Princeton" pointing quail in the fall of 1929, No.. 150917 A F D S Book. Sire: Florendale Lou's Beau (93779). Dam: Paliacho's Shenandoah Queen...
...have not run Princeton in the Quail Trials of the South during the past winter, although he is an even greater dog on quail than he is on prairie chicken, for the reason that I wished to use him for my own private shooting...
...quail that live on the Old Hancock Place near Grand Junction, Tenn. were "fixin','' as southerners say, to pair off, and a pair of quail is harder for a dog to smell than a bevy. Also, it rained hard, washing the game smells out of the air. The Setter Katie Dee ran a great three hours in the wet, but then the judges voted a postponement and the National Championship Bird Dog Trials were not finished until last week...
...year, are the most important in the U. S.; next come the Free-for-All, won a month ago by Mary Blue at Union Springs, Ala. Correspondingly important are two western trials, the Manitoba and the All-America, run in Saskatchewan every September, in which prairie chicken instead of quail is the game. Elsewhere in the U. S., approximately 160 minor field trials, including derby championships, were held last year...
Near St. Petersburg, Fla., a rattlesnake spied baseballer George Herman ("Babe'') Ruth hunting quail, sneaked after him. bit a hunting dog in the leg, sneaked away without biting "Babe" Ruth. While his friend administered serum to the dog. "Babe" Ruth, incensed, set out after the snake with a large...