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On account of the dog's intelligence and attrac- 

 tiveness, Mr. Turner kept Faust at his own home 

 a great deal of the time. 



A year or two later Colonel Hughes of St. 

 Louis, now of Denver, developed an interest in 

 pointers, and in his behalf Mr. Turner sent over 

 to Pilkington for a brace of dogs. The latter 

 quoted to him Meteor and Maxim at $700 for 

 the brace, saying to Mr. Turner that Meteor was 

 the best young dog in England, but that, being 

 a sheep-killer, and for no other reason, the dog 

 could be spared for America. Mr. Turner ordered 

 the brace for Colonel Hughes, but they arrived 

 in bad condition from their voyage, and Colonel 

 Hughes declined to accept them. A few days 

 later he changed his mind, and the dogs became 

 his property. Meteor never developed, Mr. Turner 

 says, any sheep-killing tendencies on this side. 

 He was regarded as a small dog for those times, 

 though he weighed several pounds above the 

 light-weight limit of fifty-five pounds. If Jingo's 

 Light, one of the present fashions in the United 

 States, had come along at that period, he would 

 probably have been shot for being dwarfish. He 

 weighs only forty-eight pounds. Though smaller 

 than Faust and Bow, Meteor developed such field 

 quality that his owner and friends were fully sat- 

 isfied, and he became one of the pillars of pointer 

 breeding in this country. 



