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Sam out of Lily. Flake was by Dr. Strachan's Flash out of a very pro- 

 lific brood bitch known as Schieffelin's Juno, by the Marquis of West- 

 minster's Ponto. Juno was the dam of Dr. W. S. Webb's Whiskey, a 

 winner and a well-known brood bitch in her day. At the time of Beau- 

 fort's successes we were told that there was a foreign cross close up on his 

 dam's side; but while she was short pedigreed on two or three of the lines, 

 it does not seem possible that there could have been any near cross breeding, 

 otherwise this Flake-Guido lot would not have been so exceedingly excellent. 

 We have Beulah's extended pedigree before us as we write, and the only 

 line carried out to any length is that of the sire of Schieffelin's Juno, and 

 this dog, Ponto, came from the Marquis of Westminster's kennels. No 

 name even is given to the dam of Juno, but that by no means implies that 

 she had neither name nor pedigree. It all happened thirty or more years 

 ago, and to get a dog from Eaton Hall with the assurance that the sire was 

 Ponto might have been all Mr. Schieffelin cared about at the time, and 

 afterward the pedigree probably could not be traced. Flash, the sire 

 of Flake, was a good deal of a native. His sire George was brought over 

 by Sir Frederick Bruce, who got him from the Duke of Beaufort, and 

 that is all about him. Flash's dam was General Webb's black bitch Pee, 



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and the two generations of names beyond her mean nothing nowadays. 

 As to Guide's Lily, dam of Beulah, it is stated that three of the four in 

 the second remove in her pedigree were imported, but there is nothing 

 that means anything to an investigator of the present day in the names 

 or owners given. Both Flake and Guido were lemon and white, Juno 

 was orange and white, and her sire Ponto was also lemon and white, but 

 Flash and his dam Peg were black. The Orgill pointers ran to lemon and 

 white, but Beulah threw liver and white to the liver and white Bow, son 

 of Bang, the great English pillar of the stud book. Prof. W. W. Legare 

 is the gentleman entitled to the credit of breeding Beaufort, after which 

 Beulah passed into the possession of Mr. A. H. Moore, of Philadelphia, 

 who in turn presented her to the Hon. John S. Wise, who certainly tried 

 hard enough to produce another Beaufort, but success does not always 

 follow effort in dog breeding. 



The Whitehouse Kennels and Whitehouse's Hamlet had a great repu- 

 tation before the Bangs came out, and it was the descent from Hamlet 

 that was dwelt upon in regard to Sensation; but looking back now through 

 the pedigrees of some dozen of the crack dogs of the past ten years the one 



