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in which he coated out. Mr. Thomas, in his address to the Pointer Club 

 at Dayton, O., a year ago, on dogs he had known, told of his meeting Mr. 

 Scott with the dog in the field, and his account agrees with that of Lincoln. 

 Notwithstanding the condition of the dog, Mr. Sterling gave ^400 for him, 

 and from this gentleman the dog was passed to the St. Louis Kennel Club, 

 and later on was sold to Mr. Odell, of New Orleans, in whose possession 

 he died in August, 1884. Very shortly after Bow's arrival Mr. J. C. Macdona 

 brought over quite the best dog imported to the East so far, Croxteth, by 

 Young Bang, and Mr. GodefFroy, of Guymard, bought him. Croxteth 

 was a great deal more of a pointer to our mind than Sensation, and ad- 

 mitting all that was said about his mistakes at the Robins Island trials, who 

 that saw his really sensational work will ever forget the revelation he gave 

 of what a pointer was capable of in throwing himself into sensational 

 attitudes the moment he caught scent. He was beaten, counted out politi- 

 cally in a sense. One bad fault in Croxteth from a show point of view 

 was his light eyes. This is a matter that also calls for attention at the 

 present time, as there are far too many yellow and light eyes to be seen on 

 the benches now, and it is a fault easy to acquire and hard to breed out. 

 Croxteth was bred to quite extensively, and he was really the only dog of 

 his day in the East to which any reasonable number of present-day field 

 and show dogs trace back. 



Notwithstanding the fact that setters were the popular shooting dog of 

 that period, quite a number of good pointers were being imported. In 

 1879 the St. Louis Kennel Club brought over Faust, Keswick, Jessamine and 

 three others which seem to have left no mark. Then Mr. A. H. Moore, 

 of Philadelphia, took up the breed for show purposes and got over Donald 

 and a few bitches. Donald was a medium-sized dog of Lord Sefton's line 

 on the sire's side and out of a Hamlet bitch. He was a Birmingham winner, 

 besides taking a first in Sam Price's district — at Bristol. It was not until 

 Mr. Anthony, many years later, bought this dog and got from him one of 

 the sensational litters produced at the Graphic Kennels that American 

 breeders realised what opportunities they had missed when breeding to 

 dogs of fictitious reputation and overlooking this pointer. We believe we 

 are correct in stating that two bitches were the total public support when . 

 Donald was in Mr. Moore's possession. 



In 188 1 the St. Louis Kennel Club imported Meteor, and Mr. Vander- 

 vort brought out his Don. Meteor was a Pilkington dog, by Garnet out 



