242 Modern Dogs. 



Some of the oldest of our modern kennels have 

 their foundation from the stock purchased at the Edge 

 sale in 1845, an d Mr. Thomas Statter, of Stand Hall, 

 near Manchester, whose death occurred so recently 

 as in 1891, was there, and bought a brace of dogs 

 that did him great good in the future. The late 

 Prince Consort was likewise a purchaser at the same 

 sale, and so were the Duke of Portland, who bought 

 Rake, and others ; and Mr. George Moore, of 

 Appleby, Lincolnshire, who, for a time, had a 

 kennel of pointers as good as any man in the 

 country possessed. Then, just prior to this period, 

 Mr. Osbaldeston and Mr. Meynell, so great 

 with foxhounds, had spent considerable time and 

 expense in improving the pointer, but it may be said 

 that their blood, with that of the Squire of Thorn- 

 ville Royal, all lapsed into the Knowsley and the 

 Edge strains, and from these to others, such as the 

 few dogs that Lang, the Cockspur Street gunmaker, 

 sold for such high prices, Mr. Comberbach's, and 

 Mr. Statham's, of Derby. 



The Edge strain appears to have been pretty well 

 distinct from the others, and has proved of infinite 

 benefit to the admirers of the pointer who followed 

 him. His were medium-sized but particularly 

 elegantly moulded dogs, dark liver and white in 

 colour, with more than a tendency to a golden or 



