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than this, and, judiciously used, Mr. Salter has 

 produced therefrom some of the fastest dogs of the 

 present day. He had given Mr. Samuel Price, of 

 Bow, Devonshire, a long price for Mike in 1876, 

 and perhaps this dog, with his sire Bang, were as 

 good a brace of pointers as ever ran, and Romp 

 was not far behind them. 



One who has often shot over both Mike and 

 Romp said there was nothing between the two, 

 excepting that when any particularly brilliant piece 

 of work came to be done it was the bitch that did it. 

 Mr. Salter believes that the excellence of the strain 

 arose from the dam's side rather than that of the 

 dog, and, from what I have seen of Bang and 

 Romp's progeny in other kennels, I believe this 

 supposition to be quite correct. 



At our English field trials the Mike-Romp strains 

 have won, in the United States likewise ; and there 

 is no reason to doubt that the most valuable kennel 

 of pointers in the States at the present time is that 

 of Mr. Dexter. Such dogs as his Rip- Rap, Maid of 

 Kent, and one or two others, one would very much 

 like to see competing in this country, for, from the 

 reports in the American Press, their work, and 

 especially that of Rip- Rap, must be well-nigh 

 perfect. 



Romp, a black and white mottled bitch, ran at 



