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had ever had; the others named were also of high merit. A youngei 

 brother to Rumor was a New York winner for Mr. Muss Arnolt, who had 

 quite a nice kennel of pointers at that time. The last occasion of the Graphic 

 partners showing at New York was in 1888, when Bracket beat Robert 

 le Diable, Revel III. won in her class and Lass of Bow in open heavy 

 bitches; her brother Lad of Bow being beaten by Fritz, a good son of 

 Beaufort, who unfortunately produced nothing anyway near as good as 

 himself. Mr. Heath continued for a year or two to show Graphic, Revel 

 in. and those which he had for his share, and Bracket was afterward 

 shown by Mr. Muss Arnolt. 



Nothing has been said about what the Westminster Kennel Club had 

 been doing during this time. This was essentially a pointer club, but 

 as it never exhibited at its own show in New York, the only wins the W. K. C. 

 dogs obtained were elsewhere. Sensation we have already mentioned. 

 After him came the smaller Bang Bang, by Bang, who had made a very 

 nice record in England and on the Continent in field trials. He was quite 

 a different type of dog from Sensation. One of the few lemon and whites 

 of the Bang strain, he had a black nose and was dark about the eyes, which 

 were considered dreadful drawbacks to this quite good little dog. After 

 that came Naso of Kipping. Now this was a pointer, and if the W. K. C. 

 had begun with a dog like this we think the Babylon Kennels would have 

 become world famous. When we first saw this dog we wondered what the 

 partisans of Sensation and of Bang Bang, each of which had in turn been 

 one of the nine wonders of dogdom according to their claims, could possibly 

 think of the old dogs when the newcomer was in front of them, or how thev 

 could reconcile the widely different types of the three as each being correct 

 and a world beater. Naso of Kipping was not quite right about the eyes, a 

 sort of ferrety look, perhaps from their being rather small, and there was not 

 quite enough stop. The eyes were also a little light in colour. After that 

 was said, and perhaps a passing reference to the benefit of a little more 

 squareness to the muzzle, one had to go over Naso from all points of view 

 to find any more faults, and the more one looked at him the better pleased 

 he was bound to be. His muscular development was superb, and without 

 any heaviness in shoulders. As he was as well bred as anything ever 

 imported, being by Naso II. out of Maggie, by Champion Bang out of 

 Leach's Belle, it would have been very remarkable had this dog not proved 

 of great use at Babylon. Outsiders were not slow to recognise what kind 



