72 The Dog Book 



According to the United States government test the Irish terrier that 

 owns that pedigree is practically a mongrel, because in two generations it 

 has but one ancestor with a stud-book number; since being imported, 

 however, the sire, King's Masterpiece, has earned a number by his show 

 successes, but the others are still mongrels according to the United States 

 government test. 



The seeker for champions in the pedigree discards it because he only 

 finds Breda Mixer and Bachelor, and they are too far back. Now we will 

 put it before the man who knows. 



" I see a Knox bred one. Knox has done quite a bit of good breeding 

 in his time and they seem to come better right along, but that is to be ex- 

 pected of course if the man knows his business; and inbred, too, and in the 

 fashionable way. Did you ever notice how many good ones are by a son 

 of a dog that gets good ones, out of a daughter ? No; well, study that up a bit 

 and get hold of a series of letters by Professor Bohannon of the University 

 of Ohio on that subject. He shows some wonderful results in racehorses 

 and in dogs from that system of breeding. In this case you have a son of 

 King bred to a sister of King. 



"Why, man, you have a wonderful pedigree here. I have never seen 

 anything like it before : full of Breda Muddler blood or what made him, and 

 not once is he mentioned. Here you have King's sire Kaiser out of Kriffel, 

 by Breda Mixer who got Muddler, and Kaiser's sire Red Idol was out 

 of Breda Iris the dam of Muddler. Then King's dam Kindle is a full 

 brother in blood to Muddler, for Red Inez was a sister, if not a litter 

 sister, to Breda Iris. 



"All that is repeated below in the pedigree of Koerchion, King's sister. 

 Do you know how Kriffel's dam Knoxonia was bred ? No ; well, she was a 

 Knox anyway, and we can take her as all right. King's Masterpiece is a 

 half-brother of our Celtic Badger, I see, for his dam is Killarney Lily. I 

 met a man the other day who had lately been at Belfast, and he told me of 

 his visiting Mr. Knox and spoke of his dogs very favourably. He liked 

 King very much; and I remember his saying that it was little wonder that 

 Badger and this Masterpiece, which he also saw, were good ones, for Killarney 

 Lily was one much above the average. From the way he spoke of her she 

 must be a very nice one. 



"If I remember rightly you won a couple of times with this bitch, but 

 she did not strike me as one that would go on much further as she then 



