312 The Dog Book 
By judicious mating Mr. Mott succeeded in keeping well to the front up 
to the time of his retiring a year ago. For some time most of the dogs. 
named were shown in Mr. Brokaw’s name, that gentleman having purchased 
them, Mr. Mott still having them in charge; and when Mr. Brokaw gave 
up exhibiting some of the best were repurchased by their breeder. 
At this time the Strideaway line began to attract attention, and 
through Dustaway and his descendants it is an excellent strain, breeding 
true and producing dogs of merit. Another strain that also came before’ 
the public in the nineties, and has bred on and improved, is that of Mr. 
R. E. Westlake, now of Mill City, Pa. It is about twenty years since 
we judged at a small show at Wilkesbarre and there met an enthusiastic 
pointer exhibitor who proved to be Mr. Westlake. Acting upon Mr. 
Mason’s advice, he had purchased a pointer which was bred to Beaufort, 
and from Westlake Grace’s first litter two first-prize puppies resulted. 
Mr. Charles Heath had also befriended the man who was not afraid to 
ask for information, and perhaps to him more than anyone else is due the 
present position of the Westlakes, for his watchword was: “Improve 
your ‘brood bitches by careful selection.” ‘The first selection from this: 
Beaufort litter was the peculiarly-named bitch Beau Beaufort, who: was 
bred to Robert le Diable, and from that litter Molly Beaufort was picked 
out as the best. Molly was so like her sire in colour and markings and 
her owner thought so much of her, that he entered her in three classes 
at New York. He was sent out without a mention, came in for the, second - 
class and again got the gate. He was on hand early for the third class, . 
when the judge asked him what was the use of his coming in again. The 
reason for the success of the kennels may be surmised in the answer: “Well, 
sir, I have paid for three classes, and if the chain holds out I propose going 
through the programme.” Then he asked if he had not a pointer worth 
noticing. “Yes,” was the answer, “if you had not clipped her tail.” The 
tail being clipped was certainly not the novice exhibitor’s doing, but it 
served its turn, and when on the top of that came an offer which was raised 
to $300 and refused, the young man from the coal regions went home with 
a very large amount of food for thought. At New York arrangements 
had been made to breed Molly to Lad of Kent, and from this mating came 
no less than ten winners, three of which became champions: Belle Westlake, 
Westlake’s Startle and Daisy Bell. Westlake Startle won the Brokaw 
Challenge Cup, which ‘called for five wins to take it outright.. She was 
