^6 The Sporting Dog 



was of just the right size for our American shoot- 

 ing, not large enough to carry extra lumber and 

 not too small for strength. Like many other 

 dogs which are enthusiastic and courageous in 

 the field, he was quiet and undemonstrative in 

 the kennel and on the bench. His white, black, 

 and ticked coat was a trifle rougher than that of 

 the usual bench show pointer and lacked the sat- 

 iny finish which the old pointer breeders regarded 

 as essential. He looked all over a hard, strong, 

 wise hunter. When I saw him, Robert le Dia- 

 ble, the greatest product of the St. Louis Kennel 

 Club's breeding, was also on the benches. He 

 was a much more showy animal than Rip Rap, 

 liver-and- white with thick ticking. Being in the 

 challenge class, he did not come into competition 

 with Rip Rap, but would have beaten him, I sup- 

 pose, under any bench judge, if they had been of 

 the same weight and in the same ring. 



Mr. George J. Gould exhibited for two or three 

 seasons a kennel of pointers, which, in 1897, in- 

 cluded Lady Gay Spanker, Miss Rumor, Fur- 

 lough Mike and others. Lady Gay Spanker was 

 held to be the best of her sex on the bench at that 

 time. Mr. Gould used his pointers in his shoot- 

 ing expeditions, and they were by no means mere 

 exhibition dogs or playthings. 



Meteor's Dot H, now holding the honors of a 

 championship, had an eventful history on the 



