28 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



In 1807 the pointer became fairly well typed, 

 Col. Thornton's Pluto and Juno being character 

 istic specimens, heavy-bodied dogs with small 

 heads and ears. Pluto was jet black and Juno 

 lemon and white, but there were plenty of tri 

 colours even before that time. His dog Dash be 

 came famous and sold for some $1,200. He had 

 one-third cross of foxhound with a correspond 

 ingly brushy stern, carried hound fashion, but 

 this seems to have been no particular detriment. 



Modern pointer history begins with Ch. Bang. 

 This remarkable dog flourished about 1879-80, and 

 there is hardly a pointer to-day which does not 

 trace back to old Bang along at least one line, 

 generally two or three in-crosses of him, Jingo, 

 Mainspring, Ch. Mike, Ch. Priam, Young Bang, 

 Rip-Rap, and King of Kent are all Bang dogs. 

 All the Graphic, Croxteth, and Vandervort's Don 

 dogs are descendants of Bang. In our chapter on 

 "Who's Who in Gun Dogs," if you turn to the 

 pedigree of Rags Royal Pauper you will find that 

 all the sires and most of the dams in his fifth gen 

 eration ancestors are Bang dogs, son or grandson 

 of the old boy. With that pedigree in hand, and 

 this chapter, you have the whole history of the 

 pointers, from the pointing hounds down to the 

 present stud dogs, spread out in an unbroken 



