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famous with Belle, Gre- 

 cian Bend, Romp, Mend, 

 Dandy Drake, Luck of 

 Edenhall, Bow-Bells, 

 Ruler, and Elias ; and Mr. 

 George Pilkington equally 

 so with Tory, Garnet, 

 Faust, by Lord Sefton's 

 Sam Fauvel, and Fancy. 

 Then there was Mr. 

 Beckett, celebrated for 

 his good dog Rector, three 

 times the winner of the 

 All-Aged stakes at Shrews- 

 bury ; and Mr. Salter with 

 quite a world -wide repu- 

 tation for his Mike Romps, the quickest many more ; but still there should have been 

 and best of their day. The Americans, no a sufficient supply left to maintain the 

 doubt, got a good many of the best dogs traditions of the breed. 



SOLOMON'S SEAL, WITH SEALINGWAX BACKING. 





SHAMROCK. 



LAIRD. 



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during the 'eighties. They bought Bang Mr. William Arkwright, of Sutton Scars- 

 Bang, Croxteth, Sensation, and a great dale, Derbyshire, has probably the best 



kennel in England at the present 

 time,* and that gentleman has 

 written some very useful volumes 

 on Pointer breeding. He ignores 

 the Foxhound cross, which I 

 uphold in the strong conviction 

 that it was resorted to by the 

 celebrated sportsmen in the early 

 periods of the last century, 

 greatly to the benefit of a future 

 generation. Mr. Arkwright, how- 

 ever, discovered and revived an 

 old breed of the North of Eng- 

 land that was black, and bred 



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* The photographs on this page are by Mr. W. Arkwright of his own Pointers at work. 



