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obtained from us, than has been the case with others 

 similarly situated, who have sought to breed St. 

 Bernards, Setters, Spaniels, and any other variety of 

 dog in perfection ; and more money has been spent 

 on any of them than on the pointer. 



South Carolina produced a Beaufort, whose 

 excellence as a show dog has never been gainsaid, 

 and for whom that good judge, Mr. C. H. Mason, 

 of New York, paid a very large sum of money. 

 Count de Beauffort sent from Belgium Master 

 Dan, who beat our cracks at the Kennel Club 

 Show in 1889; Mr. G. Raper had Naso of Strasburg 

 from Germany, a dog that, when in his prime, 

 must at any rate have been as good as the best; 

 and other foreign bred pointers have on several 

 occasions more than held their own at our usual 

 field trial meetings. Nor does this short list by 

 any means exhaust the names of the good dogs of 

 the variety produced outside the British Isles. 



