r 2 "GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA," "ISLAM," 



thoroughly house-breaking her, then presented her to Colonel J. James 

 La Rue, of West Virginia. She was bred to blood, and proved a worker 

 in the field from the word go. We will imagine her pedigree much as 

 the long pedigrees of horses seem to me in catalogues and stud-books. 

 We will say her sire was a bull-terrier out of a King Charles slut. Her 

 grandsire was an Italian greyhound out of a black-and-tan slut. Her 

 great-grandsire was a spitz out of an Irish setter, and so on ; take them 

 all in as one very expensive catalogue by a horse-breeder of great 

 repute does in extended pedigrees, but best explained thus : 



Saint Bernard, Newfoundland, mastiff, English bull-dog, pointer, 

 setter, greyhound, Russian blood-hound, Scotch deer-hound, French 

 poodle, Dutch beagle, Spanish blood-hound, Scotch terrier, water- 

 spaniel, cocker, fox-hound, otter-hound, two cur clogs, Skye terrier, pug, 

 colly dog, harrier, fox-terrier, English pointer, and the bitch sent to me 

 by Commodore Parker which I presented to Colonel La Rue as a thor- 

 oughbred pointer ! 



Now, these names represent dogs, and many a man would accept 

 the breeding of the pointer slut just as I here make it up, were they to 

 read it in print. I am knowing to a great many deceptions in the 

 breedings of horses fully as ridiculous as I here illustrate through mixing 

 of dogs. Alfred, imported by Thomas Weddle in 1833, was an English 

 draught-horse. In these days he figures in paper pedigrees as " Sir Al- 

 fred," the imported English thoroughbred. Turk, also imported by him 

 at the same time, was a Cleveland Bay (as was Bellfounder, imported 

 ten years earlier). In these days he figures as an English thorough- 

 bred, and the get of both these horses was taken into Kentucky for 

 stock purposes, also into the East and the West. General Dudley and 

 Henry Clay, Jr., both took such horses from here into Kentucky, where 

 the Alfred and Turk stock were well liked. 



Imported Emigrant was another of the Alfred type ; but to-day he 

 figures as the thoroughbred English horse "Imported Emigrant." 



Men are not all interested in breeding of horses or dogs; but some 

 who have acquired wealth, gratify a latent desire for a horse or dog, 

 then, with greater ignorance than a boy, accept printed pedigrees as 

 authentic, contending with great energy for their truthfulness. 



The mixing of all these dogs as I have given them, is but "crossing 

 and out-crossing," as advocated by some papers. Each well-bred horse 

 has a type of its own, which can be crossed out then back upon ; but 

 to create a new and self-sustaining type, resort must be had to the 

 primitive. One cannot get far away from a primitive, then resort to it 



