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of the strain have been in the hands of Prince Solms, among which 

 Naso II., Duke of Hessen, and Naso of Kippen, all field-trial 

 winners, come from the Prince's kennel ; whilst Naso of Kippen, 

 who has lately been exported at a long price, leaves behind him, in 

 this country, three good sons in Mr. Beck's Naso of Upton and 

 Rapid Ben (winner of the Field Trial Derby last year), and the 

 Rev. W. J. Richardson's Rex of Milton. Mr. J. E. Lloyd Lloyd 

 has also shown some very beautiful bitches in Daphne, Zasme, lima, 

 and Lady Jane ; but these have not appeared at field trials. Mr. 

 Norrish's name, too, has been well known to the public through 

 Graphic, Beryl, Glee, Revel, Revel III., Beau Ideal, and others. 

 Sir Thomas Lennard, Mr. R. J. Lloyd Price, Mr. George Pilkington, 

 Mr. J. H. Whitehouse, Mr. Barclay Field, and Mr. Heywood 

 Lonsdale, have all done much to make the modern Pointer the 

 most fashionable of sporting dogs." 



The views of Mr. G. Thorpe Bartram, given in a contribution 

 to the First Edition of " British Dogs," and since revised by him, 

 are interesting. As a breeder, an exhibitor, and one devoted to 

 the field sports in which dogs are employed, his remarks are 

 well worthy of attention. Mr. Bartram says : 



"The Pointer is now, and has ever been, most essentially a sporting 

 dog. Although his origin is not quite clear, nor the country from 

 which he was imported into England satisfactorily made out, still, 

 he is generally credited with coming to us from Spain. Even now 

 we not infrequently hear the phrase ' That is a regular old- 

 fashioned Spanish Pointer ' applied to a heavy, lumbering dog, 

 such as was much used by our forefathers. If his footing upon 

 British soil cannot be traced back so far as the Setter's or, at 

 least, as the Setter has existed amongst us in some form or another 

 still, he seems to have been bred in this country for the purpose 

 for which he is now used, and for that alone. In France, America, 

 Spain, and Portugal, he is also used for sporting purposes. 



He has always, as far as I can ascertain, been considered in 

 England a distinct breed of dog, cultivated for finding game by 

 scent, and trained to 'pointing' it when found i.e. to come to a 

 standstill upon scenting it. So innate is this propensity to point 

 in a well-bred puppy of this breed that we frequently see him point 

 the first time he is entered to game. This is regarded by some 

 sportsmen as evidence of an original disposition to point peculiar 

 to this breed ; but all the information that I have obtained on this 

 matter goes to show that it was first only the result of training, and 

 now exists more as a communicated habit than anything else. It 

 is advanced, in favour of the predisposition theory, that the Setter 

 has been bred, trained, and used for precisely the same purpose, yet 



