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the Archangel being well known ; but after the death of his 

 Romanic, smothered in a railway van on his way to a show (some- 

 what the same fate as the writer's celebrated Bull bitch Rozelle 

 suffered on a like occasion) soon after his owner had given the late 

 Mr. Lamphier 150 guineas for him, Bull-dogs were given up in 

 disgust, and Mr. Lloyd Price went in for Pointers only, mixed with 

 a few Setters, of which Ginx's Baby, Rum, and Regent (pure 

 Laveracks) were probably the best known. 



Of Pointers he found a fine old strain ready to his hand at 

 Rhiwlas, from Jim Terry and Nelson of this strain, unknown as to 

 pedigree, but undoubted as to work, and handled by his grand- 

 father's old keeper, Mr. John Davies With the assistance of some 

 purchased bitches, he soon got to be known in the show world with 

 Ben, Snapshot, Lady Alice (who took the Champion Cup at 

 Birmingham many years since as best Pointer in the show), etc., etc., 

 selling Snapshot in America for one hundred guineas. 



Then he was fortunate enough to pick up at the Manchester Dog 

 Show a neglected, out-of-condition, leggy, and weedy-looking young 

 bitch named Belle, of no well-ascertained pedigree, but said to 

 have been bred by Lord George Bentinck. In Belle he was enter- 

 taining an angel unawares, for, broken at five years old, in itself no 

 mean performance, by a young underkeeper, Mr. F. Anstey (now with 

 Hatfield Harter, Esq.), to do which he had to walk some hundreds 

 of miles, for Belle could travel, and had not much idea of her duties 

 at first beyond running rabbits, once she found out what was 

 required of her she never let any other dog be first at a grouse, or 

 get the outside range of her, and she would stand for a week once 

 she found them. 



She won the big ,500 Stake at the First Bala Trials, beating all 

 the cracks of that day, and dogs have much deteriorated since the 

 giants of those days. Ranger, Countess, Rector, Statters Dick, 

 Plunkett, etc., all went down before Belle, who was unquestionably 

 the best Pointer bitch on grouse ever unslipped on a moor. 

 Partridges she did not care for : she was broken on grouse, and to 

 grouse she remained faithful. Small fields and hedges gave no 

 scope for her grand action and wonderful ranging powers. Five 

 hundred guineas were refused for her from Mr. May, a Canadian ; 

 however, she died at home, aged only nine years, having made the 

 reputation of Rhiwlas and young Anstey, who afterwards broke 

 many another, but none like her, a bitch named Belle Faust being 

 perhaps the nearest approach. 



