72 The Dog Book 
According to the United States government test the Irish terrier that 
owns that pedigree is practically a mongrel, because in two generations it 
has but one ancestor with a stud-book number; since being imported, 
however, the sire, King’s Masterpiece, has earned a number by his show 
successes, but the others are still mongrels according to the United States 
government test. 
The seeker for champions in the pedigree discards it because he only 
finds Breda Mixer and Bachelor, and they are too far back. Now we will 
put it before the man who knows. 
“T see a Knox bred one. Knox has done quite a bit of good breeding 
in his time and they seem to come better right along, but that is to be ex- 
pected of course if the man knows his business; and inbred, too, and in the 
fashionable way. Did you ever notice how many good ones are by a son 
of a dog that gets good ones, out of a daughter? No; well, study that up a bit 
and get hold of a series of letters by Professor Bohannon of the University 
of Ohio on that subject. He shows some wonderful results in racehorses 
and in dogs from that system of breeding. In this case you have a son of 
King bred to a sister of King. 
“Why, man, you have a wonderful pedigree here. I have never seen 
anything like it before: full of Breda Muddler blood or what made him, and 
not once is he mentioned. Here you have King’s sire Kaiser out of Kriffel, 
by Breda Mixer who got Muddler, and Kaiser’s sire Red Idol was out 
of Breda Iris the dam of Muddler. Then King’s dam Kindle is a full 
brother in blood to Muddler, for Red Inez was a sister, if not a litter 
sister, to Breda Iris. 
“All that is repeated below in the pedigree of Koerchion, King’s sister. 
Do you know how Kriffel’s dam Knoxonia was bred? No; well, she was a 
Knox anyway, and we can take her as all right. King’s Masterpiece is a 
half-brother of our Celtic Badger, I see, for his dam is Killarney Lily. I 
met a man the other day who had lately been at Belfast, and he told me of 
his visiting Mr. Knox and spoke of his dogs very favourably. He liked 
King very much; and I remember his saying that it was little wonder that 
Badger and this Masterpiece, which he also saw, were good ones, for Killarney 
Lily was one much above the average. From the way he spoke of her she 
must be a very nice one. 
“If I neinember rightly you won a couple of times with this bitch, but 
she did not strike ‘me as one that would go on much further as she then 
