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Bells, Merry Bells, Bona Bell, and other winners. Leach's 

 Belle is by Champion Sancho out of Leach's Fan; Sancho 

 was the sire of Champion Wagg and brother of Champion 

 Chang. 



Graphic was imported in 1886. He is a typical liver-and- 

 white dog, and has scored many winnings in England and 

 this country, including the champion prize at Crystal Palace 

 in 1884 and 1885. His held performances in England and 

 America have been good, and he is the sire of many first- 

 class dogs, including Go- Bang, Champion Bracket, Cham- 

 pion Lad of Bow, Lass of Bow, Romeo, Champion Revel 

 III. , Wanda, Stella B. , Graphite, Lord Graphic, Pommery 

 Sec., Merry Legs, and Sally Brass II. 



Champion Robert le Diable is one of the most prominent 

 and popular dogs that have been bred in this country. He 

 is a grand liver-and-white ticked dog, of great symmetry, 

 weighing about sixty pounds, and built on correct lines for 

 practical work. He was bred by the St. Louis Kennel Club, 

 whelped June 12, 1883, subsequently owned by the High- 

 land Kennels, Red Bank, N. J., and now by the Hempstead 

 Farm Kennels, Hempstead, Long Island. He is by Croxteth 

 -Spinaway; she,' a small but symmetrical bitch, by Pilking- 

 ton's Garnet, out of Keswick. The latter was imported 

 by the St. Louis Kennel Club, and won first prize in Eng- 

 land, in the puppy stakes of the Sporting Dog and Field 

 Trial Club' s trials, in 1879. Robert le Diable is distinguished 

 for his successful bench-show and field-trial record, and 

 defeated a large and formidable aggregation of Pointers at 

 the Eastern Field Trials Club's meeting in 1886, winning 

 the all-aged stake. He also won first and special for best 

 Pointer or Setter in the New York Show in 1885; first at 

 St. Louis and Cincinnati, the same year; championship and 

 special for best Pointer, in 1886, at St. Louis and Pitts- 

 burgh, besides other prizes; first and special, for the best 

 Pointer with a field-trial record, for the best Pointer in the 

 show, and for the best stud dog shown with two of his 

 get, at New York, 1890. 



Tammany, by Pilkington's Tory, out of Moonstone, im- 



