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The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
re all fine dogs, we should say; indeed, very fine. But the finest we ever saw in the field, we think, was one that belonged to Mr. Peter W. Grubes, and was named Zach, after General Zachary Taylor, How he came to be so fine a dog we could never understand. Dogberry tell us that "reading and writing come by nature," and so, we suppose, came Zach's accomplishments; for, though his master is a great fisherman, we do not understand that he is equally expert upon the wing. Accomplished, however, Zach was, in a degree beyond any other dog we ever saw in the field. He could quarter the ground better, move faster, find more birds, and scare up fewer before thZach was, in a degree beyond any other dog we ever saw in the field. He could quarter the ground better, move faster, find more birds, and scare up fewer before the huntsmen came up, than is conceivable by anybody that never saw him. He was all yellow, built like a greyhound, and a perfect model of symmetrical beauty. He came of a race that had long been famous for their achievements in the field; but he, we suspect, was superior to all of them. His The race, we suspect, is extinct