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a fairly good but not great performer in the trials 

 and was a success in the stud. Sportsman was a 

 very large dog of this cross and had no little pre- 

 tension to bench-show excellence. He was taken 

 to California and became prominent in the breed- 

 ing ranks of that state. Breeze Gladstone was 

 the most successful of the cross on the bench. 

 He was a strongly marked white-black-tan, of size 

 rather above the average, and was smoother in 

 conformation and much better in head than most 

 dogs of his breeding. 



Paul Gladstone may be mentioned in connec- 

 tion with Bohemian Girl, the latter being the 

 mother of his best progeny. Paul was a small, 

 cobby, white-black-tan dog of fair field trial 

 form. He was an almost unchallenged bench 

 winner for two or three years. He was by no 

 means without faults, however, and I think would 

 hardly rank high on the bench if he were alive 

 to-day. His head was too short and, for the char- 

 acter of his muzzle, too thick. 



Bohemian Girl was possibly the best daughter 

 of Count Noble. She was a large and rangy 

 black-and-white, with a slashing way of going 

 and admittedly the best field setter of her sex at 

 the time. In her public running she was owned 

 by Mr. Walter Mellier of Kansas City, but was 

 sold by him for $1000 to Mr. Shelley Hudson of 

 Kentucky. Bred to Paul Gladstone, Bohemian 



