72 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



Chesapeake, now gone forever. Among present- 

 day sires the get of Beaver III appear both in the 

 stud and puppy pedigrees offered on the dog mart. 

 Clark's Sea Wolf and Clark's Sea Tramp are 

 typical Chesapeakes, both by Beaver's Rex out 

 of Edmund's Lusitania and Finey's Pride, re- 

 spectively. Other good puppies offered are by 

 Water King ex Bessie H. Mr. Pulitzer's Brownie 

 was the star bench show Chesapeake of 1916. 



Going further back into the Chesapeake hier- 

 archy, we soon get to Ch. Chester (Brownie- 

 Pride), the finest of the breed. Chester Mat- 

 thews, a present-day dog, is Hale's Dick — Juda, 

 in the direct Chester line, while Furlike, another 

 good one, is Ferg's Bingo ex Juda of the Chester- 

 Mollie Evans strain. A typical three-generation 

 Chesapeake pedigree would be as follows : 



(Beaver's Re. grnT "er Girl 



Clark's Sea Wolf 



Edmund's /Water King 



■ \r ■ ■ 



Lusitania \Dolly J. 

 THREE GENERA-nONS OF CHESAPEAKE LINEAGE 



which should give the reader a fair idea of the 

 family lines. It is quite as essential to get a pure- 

 bred Chesapeake as a pure-bred setter or pointer, 

 for crosses and mongrels never can specialise like 

 thoroughbreds. Nerve and stamina are what are 

 wanted in your Chesapeake, a dog that will crash 

 through thin ice, cutting his own channel after a 



