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With only an amateur's "appreciation of the 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...
With a hunter's "appreciation of the subtleties" of a springer spaniel, I have never thought my springer "ridiculous" as I followed him through the fields and watched his clever work on both rabbits and pheasants. And incidentally most of the tail feathers of the pheasants I have shot over him were longer than the old pappy-guy's gesture...
...hunting is good "up the trail" may we 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...
...Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...best Pekingese (TIME, Jan. 30) and best toy dog, got swooping dabs from his owner's hairbrush as he bounced along. Close on his heels, in ridiculous contrast, stalked huge, brindled Great Dane Gunar von Hollergarten, best working dog. Then came liver & white Norman of Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French...