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pointers began to win a reputation. One varia- 

 tion was introduced and attracted some attention 

 for a few years, but not much has been heard of 

 it for some time. This variation consisted of the 

 black Papes, imported from the kennel of Mr. 

 Pape of Newcastle, England. They were hand- 

 some dogs and of considerable quality, but for 

 some reason did not appeal to American breeders. 

 I can recall only one dog of that blood which com- 

 peted successfully against the prevailing strains. 

 That was Mr. Scudder's Rank. He was black 

 and his dam was a Pape, but his sire was the well- 

 known Croxteth pointer, Maximus, so that, after 

 all, his moderate success in the field trials can be 

 claimed as much for Croxteth as for the Papes. 



Pointer history is marked by two epochs. The 

 first was the importation of a series of large and 

 handsome dogs by the groups around the West- 

 minster Kennel Club of New York and the St. 

 Louis Kennel Club in the West, though Croxteth, 

 the most serviceable, perhaps, of that lot of im- 

 portations, did not belong to either of these groups. 

 The second epoch began when Edward Dexter of 

 Boston and Captain McMurdo, his adviser and 

 handler, brought over and bred from Mainspring, 

 King of Kent, and Mainspring's sister. Hops ; 

 dogs of handier size, more snappy on birds and 

 of better sustained speed. 



The dogs of both these epochs were of the 



