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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 fee. of 
that period, quite a number of good pointers were being imported.. In 
1879 the St. Louis Kennel Club brought over Faust, Keswick, Jessamine Me 
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 1881 the.St. Louis Kennel Club imported ee and Mr. Vander- 
vort- brought out his Don. Meteor was a Pilkington dog, by. Garnet out 
