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the special, for the best pointer. She is not so good in head even as Graphic, 

 and not nearly so good in neck as Beaufort, neither has she so good a tail, 

 and has not enough the best of him in other respects to overcome these points. 

 She is a very taking animal to look at, and, as we have before remarked, 

 is the best large bitch we have ever seen, but we do not think she is quite 

 good enough to beat Graphic even." Mr. Anthony thought otherwise, 

 and his opinion was that at that show Revel III. was the best in his kennel. 



The late J. M. Tracy judged at New York a month later, and he 

 also put Robert le Diable over Graphic, but it was not accepted without 

 protest; indeed Forest and Stream, then the leading kennel paper in New 

 York, stated that "last year and the year before the pointer judging was 

 remarkable for the number of erroneous decisions made, and we regret 

 there was no improvement this year in this respect." Exhibitors of the 

 present day have little idea of what owners had to put up with twenty 

 years ago in the way of judging. 



We cannot devote the space that would be necessary to give anything 

 like an adequate idea of the successes of the Graphic Kennels during the 

 next few years, but it was anything but a pleasant experience outside of 

 winning prizes, for the length to which personal attacks were permitted 

 in the press at that time can hardly be imagined now. Mr. Anthony stood 

 it as long as he could and then pulled up stakes. From the third and 

 last edition of their kennel catalogue we quote: "We have been driven 

 from the arena of competition on the one hand by libellous and vindictive 

 partisans who have been permitted not only the use but the abuse of the 

 kennel press to belittle the kennel, and, if possible, to injure us; on the 

 other by judges in the field who did not know good work when they saw 

 it, while in the show-ring kennel partners of exhibitors are at times appointed 

 to judge their own partners' dogs in competition with those of outsiders." 

 There was a great deal more truth than poetry in that statement, and the 

 Graphic Kennels disposed of some of their dogs and divided the others. 



Mention must be made of some of the breeding done by the Graphic 

 Kennels. From Donald and Revel III. came two good litters, one of 

 which included Rumor, Slander, Revel VI. and Donald VI. The first 

 two names were aimed at those who had been attacking the kennels. Rumor 

 was a most exquisite small-sized dog, but just as he was old enough to 

 show the decision to withdraw was arrived at and he was never exhibited. 

 Mr. Anthony held at the time that this was the best pointer the kennel 



