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kennel by Captain McMurdo, and to King of 

 Kent produced the phenomenal Rip Rap and his 

 younger sister, the beautiful little liver-and-white 

 Maid of Kent. Both of these dogs competed on 

 equal terms with the best setters and beat them as 

 often as not. Rip Rap decisively defeated Rowdy 

 Rod, the best Derby setter of 1890 ; and conquered 

 all criticism in 1891 by a famous four-hour heat 

 in what was equivalent to a championship stake, 

 which he ran with a high-class Count Noble setter 

 called Count Eric. Maid of Kent met the Llew- 

 ellin, Antonio, in the last heat of the same 

 stake, and many thought that she thoroughly out- 

 worked him, though he obtained the decision. 

 From Mr. Dexter's kennel appeared in succession 

 Tapster, Zig Zag, Selah, Delhi, and Khartoum, 

 along the same line of breeding. 



Pearl's Dot, the unequalled mother of heroes, 

 was by Trinket's Bang out of Pearlstone. After 

 winning a Derby in Indiana, she was sent to 

 the breeding ranks, and achieved so much that 

 her name is likely to appear in almost as many 

 pointer pedigrees as that of old Rhoebe among 

 the setters. To King of Kent she produced 

 Strideaway; to Jingo, Young Jingo; to Rip Rap, 

 the black-and-white Young Rip Rap, Ripstone, 

 and Dot's Pearl ; Pearl's Fan is a half-sister. 

 Dot's Pearl, owned by Mr. Turner in Chicago, be- 

 came the worthy successor of her mother. She 



