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for a great many years by Mr. Pape, 

 of Carlisle, and his father before him. 

 With these Mr. Arkwright has bred to the 

 best working strains that I have alluded to 

 in previous pages, with the result that he has 

 had many good field trial winners. For a 



CHAMPIONS LUNESDALE SCEPTRE, 

 LUNESDALE WAGG, AND 

 LUNESDALE GEORGE. 



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good many years now Elias Bishop, of 

 Newton Abbot, has kept up the old breeds 

 of Devon Pointers, the Ch. Bangs, the Mikes, 

 and the Brackenburg Romps, and his have 

 been amongst the best at the shows and 

 the field trials during the past few years. 

 In 1905 he showed a good workmanlike- 

 looking dog called Denbury Ranger at the 

 Crystal Palace, and he was rightly awarded 

 first in more than one class, and at the same 

 time Bishop had the winner of the Field 

 Trial class in Fiscal Policy, by Don Pedro. 

 There are, of course, exceptions to the rule 

 that many of the modern Pointers do not 

 carry about them the air of their true business, 

 as at the last Kennel Club Show there were 

 three good-looking ones in the Maiden class 

 in Mr. Charles Drury's Haisthorpe Shot, 

 Mr. A. J. Mildon's Ruby, and Mr. D. C. 

 Davie's Ferndale Halburton, and Radium, 

 that might have been good enough for 



anything, and Mr. S. Atkinson's Fullerton, 

 and Mr. Davie's Ferndale Wagg, were the 

 sort of dogs to catch the eye of the sports- 

 man. It was the majority one had to 

 complain about, and with no entries for 

 a field trial class, there was certainly a 

 suggestion that the owners of up-to-date 

 Pointers do not care much about the ranging 

 and game-finding properties of their now 

 favourite breed. 



There is a notable departure from this 

 apparent apathy in regard to field merit, 

 as the Marquis of Waterford, whose age in 

 the Peerage is stated to be thirty-two, took 

 the late Mr. Whitehouse's view nearly ten 

 years ago, and has bred first-class Pointers 

 to first-class Foxhounds, and then continued 

 with the Pointer. His lordship has there- 

 fore broken the ice in respect to the earlier 

 generations, and now possesses useful Pointers 

 of the restored order. In another ten years 

 he may have the best kennel of Pointers in 



MR. w. PROCTOR'S MELKSHAM FIRST CHOICE 



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Photograph by F. C. Hignctt and Son, Lostock. 



the world. There may be many more bred 

 with care from existing strains, as so many 

 people had Pointers five and twenty years 

 ago to have made it easy to breed from fresh 

 blood as required ; but it would appear that 



