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Bow, Mealy, Bang's Boy, and Climax. The two latter were his 

 favourites in the field, and it will be remembered that he had the 

 brace actually in his hands at the time of his lamentably sudden 

 death, the evening before the ist September, 1887. 



Random, the last of the team named above, mated with Mr. 

 Huggins's Juno, gave us the typical Don Juan, sire of the well- 

 known champions Ponto and Fan, from which Mr. Beck's 

 celebrated Naso of Upton is descended on his dam's side, and of 

 Fursdon Juno, dam of Graphic, another of Mr. Norrish's well- 

 known dogs, and now in America. It is unnecessary here to follow 

 the successful careers of Devon bred pointers in other countries, 

 their good deeds would fill a volume. 



Returning again to the progeny of Old Bang and Leach's Belle, 

 Mr. Bulled, of Witheridge, was fortunate in securing one of 

 these, viz., Belle of the Ball. Not only did she bring his name to 

 the fore as a prize winner, but she enabled him to hold his own 

 in the strongest competition. One of the earliest of her progeny 

 was Sambo the Devil, who from the time of his debut at Margate 

 in 1879, scored prize after prize, which quickly ran him into 

 champion honours. Amongst other good ones which the 

 Witheridge kennel bred from Belle of the Ball was the field-trial 

 performer, Lass of Devon, who was by Mr. Stranger's Don of 

 Devon, and Devon Noble. More recently Mr. Bulled has been 

 successfully breeding from the Village Star, a daughter of Devon 

 Jack Bell Bona, litter sister to Bonus Sancho. From her came 

 his present day field trial and bench winners Devonshire Nero, 

 Devonshire Sail, and Devonshire Lady. 



However, the most successful of all Devonshire kennels, 

 especially on the show bench, is that of Mr. E. C. Norrish, of 

 Gays, Sandford, near Crediton. Nor has Mr. Norrish restricted 

 himself to the ordinary dogs of the ring, he having latterly made 

 entries at the Field Trials, where dogs broken by himself have, as 

 a rule, performed fairly, though not quite so successfully as might 

 be wished. There is no doubt that for some years back the 

 Sandford pointers have obtained great celebrity and been pre- 



