410 BRITISH DOGS 



We have Hinks's Dutch (13,813), a bow-legged dog, that was not 

 entered in the Kennel Club Stud Book until he was about six years 

 old, and had won, through his progeny, the prize as best stud dog of 

 his breed, at Aston Show, 1883. The Kennel Club Stud Book gives 

 the age of Dutch as about six years, and his sire as Old Victor. 

 Now, the Old Victor of the Stud Book is No. 2,791, and he died in 

 1872, six years before Dutch was whelped. The dam of Dutch is, 

 on the same authority, stated to be Hartley's Champion Countess. 

 If this is the bitch entered 6,600 in the Stud Book in Mr. Hartley's 

 name, she was whelped 1874, and is, as given in the table, by 

 Young Gambter out of Old Daisy. Now, there are three bitches 

 named Daisy, all Hinks's property, and bred by him K.C.S.B. 

 2,801, 2,802, and 2,803 a ^ whelped in 1866, and out of Old Daisy; 

 and it is highly improbable that the same Old Daisy had a litter in 

 1866 and another in 1874. Moreover, Daisy (2,801) is said to be 

 by Turk (2,782), and the date of that dog's birth is stated to be 

 1866, the same year as that of his daughter Daisy not impossible, 

 but most improbable. Then Daisy (2,802), whelped 1868, is said to 

 be by Hinks's Madman, and that dog is in the Kennel Club Stud 

 Book 2,740, whelped in 1862, and a i5lb. dog, and he had for his 

 great-granddam Old Daisy. 



The names Madman, Victor, Prince, Puss, Daisy, occur very 

 often ; and as the pedigrees of Bull-terriers are given in the 

 Kennel Club Stud Book, it is often quite impossible to identify 

 the dogs and, in fact, instead of the clearness and certainty essential 

 to the value of a pedigree, we have a mass of statements alike 

 confusing and contradictory. For the past ten or twelve years 

 breeders of repute have been more particular, and pedigrees are 

 now fairly well kept. 



Maggie May's sire may be Hinks's Prince (2,760), a dog that 

 used to be shown as White Prince, and under that name was 

 disqualified at Northampton, as having been castrated, by the 

 late Mr. John Walker and the late Mr. Edward Sandell, as judges a 

 decision which was confirmed on reference to the veterinary surgeon. 

 The late Mr. Hugh Dalziel believed the sire of Maggie May to 

 be the same dog, as he well remembered, as representative of 

 The Field, protesting in that paper against the decision of the 

 gentlemen named, because a minute examination made him certain 

 there was no scar, as there must have been had the operation 

 taken place. 



Against the late James Hinks (one of the most straightforward 

 of men) undoubtedly lies a just cause for complaint, for to his 

 carelessness is due, to a considerable extent, the confusion that exists 

 regarding pedigrees. 



In the descriptive points of the breed as drawn up by the 

 Bull-terrier Club it may be thought that a very wide margin as regards 



