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had ever had; the others named were also of high merit. A younger 
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 
III. 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 they 
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 
