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Dog and Gun: A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents
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The least well known of Johnson Jones Hoopers works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions between 1856 and 1871. Hooper is Alabamas most celebrated antebellum author, and here he gives insight into the meaning of a culture where every male hunts and a man who shoots as a gentleman will be assumed a gentleman. Beidlers introduction to this reprint edition explores the social, literary, and technical dimensions of Dog and Gun, which he sees as an important commentary on class distinctions in the antebellum South, as well as a straightforward treatise on hunting. Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting clearly distinct from hunting for food in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs. He takes us back to an autumnal ritual of the hunt, where one is always a boy with his first gun to the natural mystery of quest, competition, predation, pursuit, survival, bravery, endurance, and eventual defeat, called the mystery of the hunt.

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title	:	Dog and Gun : A Few Loose Chapters On Shooting : Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents Library of Alabama Classics
author	:	Hooper, Johnson Jones.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0817305610
print isbn13	:	9780817305611
ebook isbn13	:	9780585265629
language	:	English
subject	Fowling, Shooting, Bird dogs--Training.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	SK313.H78 1992eb
ddc	:	799.2/4/097509034
subject	:	Fowling, Shooting, Bird dogs--Training.

Page i

Dog and Gun

Page ii

The Library of Alabama Classics,
reprint editions of works important
to the history, literature, and culture of
Alabama, is dedicated to the memory of
Rucker Agee
whose pioneering work in the fields
of Alabama history and historical geography
continues to be the standard of
scholarly achievement.

Page iii

Dog and Gun

A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting,

Among Which Will Be Found
Some Anecdotes and Incidents

Johnson J. Hooper

With an Introduction by
Philip D. Beidler

Page iv

Introduction Copyright 1992
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America

The Library of Alabama Classics edition is
a facsimile of the 1856 edition.

The paper on which this book is printed
meets the minimum requirements of American
National Standard for Information Science
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hooper, Johnson Jones, 1815-1862.
Dog and gun : a few loose chapters on shooting, among which will
be found some anecdotes and incidents / Johnson J. Hooper ; with an
introduction by Philip D. Beidler.
p. cm. (The Library of Alabama classics)
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Orange Judd, 1856.
ISBN 0-8173-0561-0 (alk. paper)
1. Fowling. 2. Shooting. 3. Bird dogsTraining. I. Title.
II. Series.
SK313.H78 1992
799.2'4'097509034dc20 91-21116

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available

Page v

Contents.

Introduction by Philip D. Beidler

vii

Facsimile of Dedication

Facsimile of Title Page

Chapter I.
The Gentleman's Amusement,

Chapter II.
How to Choose a Good Gun,

Chapter III.
On the Charging of a Gun,

Chapter IV.
The Setter and Pointer,

Chapter V.
Field Training,

Page vi

Chapter VI.
Remarks on Training,

Chapter VII.
Advice to the Sportsman,

Chapter VIII.
On the Shooting of Quail,

Chapter IX.
Duck Shooting-the Mallard,

Chapter X.
A Woodcock Story-Quail,

Chapter XI.
Partridge Shooting,

Chapter XII.
Treatment of the Distemper,

Chapter XIII.
Snipe Shooting in Florida,

Facsimile Of Advertisements

106

Page vii

Introduction.

Philip D. Beidler

By 1856, when Johnson J. Hooper, author of the legendary Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, sought to publish a comparatively ''serious" volume, Dog and Gun, one of his motives seems to have been certain: he had grown tired of being known as Johnson J. Hooper, author of the legendary Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs. It was one matter, he had discovered, to bask in the genial celebrity of being automatically associated with his back-country rapscallion and confidence-man extraordinaire. It was another, as his biographers have reported, when people confused him with his creation. His runaway success as a premier Southwestern Humorist had backfired into a crisis of literary and personal identity.

This situation must have been particularly galling to the erudite Whig lawyer, journalist, judge, and politician who had created his crass, illiterate, unprincipled hero as the ultimate low-life Democrat; and who had created him, moreover, in a book intended to be a satire of the kind of campaign biography popular with the Jacksonian mobocracy.

Coming from a respectable newspaper family in Wilmington, North Carolina, educating himself in law, and marrying in 1842 the daughter of a rich East Alabama merchant-planter, Hooper had quickly moved from legal practice to editorship of the

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