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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



won the Braces three years in succession, 

 and they are unquestionably the best brace 

 of Pointers in the world. Nothing can 

 exceed the perfection of their work, and 

 together they are faultless." 



Shortly after this Mr. Price sold Mike to 

 Doctor Salter for a good figure, and refused 

 400 sovereigns for Bang. 



In Devonshire it was considered a treat 

 to see Mr. Sam Price and his dog Bang 

 in a morning on partridges : the ground 

 worked with mathematical precision ; Bang's 

 decisive point, his staunchness to wait for 



progeny, as, of course, he was patronised 

 from every part of the world. His son Mike 

 was, if anything, faster than he was, though 

 not always as sure, and his daughter Bow 

 Bells was a little charm. To see her cut in 

 and out of the wind was delightful, and then 

 her point was as effective as that of her sire. 

 Bang Bang, who was unlucky not to have 

 won the Field Trial Derby for Mr. Fred 

 Lowe in 1881, was a capital dog, and a 

 winner of Field Trials in England, Belgium, 

 and America. He was sold into the latter 

 country for 140 sovereigns. Young Bang 



MR W. SHEARER CLARK'S CH. LUNESDALE GEORGE. 



BY LUNESDALE TED DRINDRESS. BRED BY MRS. HORNER. 



Photograph by C. Rent, Wishaw. 



his master as long as the latter pleased, and 

 his perfect manners as the outside bird fell 

 and then the other. Mr. Price was an old- 

 fashioned shot, and to miss a right and left 

 was rare. With plenty of game about, and the 

 wind in Bang's favour, the bag was always 

 a very big one. Bang had some extraordin- 

 arily good Pointers amongst his numerous 



was a very good single-handed dog, but 

 jealous with another. As a sire he became 

 famous, as the Field Trial Derby winners, 

 Priam and Scamp, were by him out of Teal, 

 by Lord Downe's Mars, son of Drake, her 

 dam. Lort's Lill by General Prim, son of 

 Holford, Bang's dam being by Hamlet, so 

 doubly bred into the first winners at Southill. 



