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Beulah blood. Seph G. won first in 

 her class. She was a great grand- 

 daughter of Beulah, through Bellona, 

 and as she was in whelp to Graphic I 

 engaged three dog puppies. I then 

 bred Young Beulah to Robert le Diable. 

 Roswell was the nami of Young Beu- 

 lah's pup by Robert ; Romeo the name 

 of my Graphic-Seph G. puppy. They 

 were about the same age. Roswell was a 

 promising youngster. He was a beauty 

 and as fast as the wind ; but he died 

 young. 



Romeo was broken by Short and 

 made a fair run, but he never was a first- 

 class dog. He was handsome from 

 head to back ribs, but was deficient in 

 his hind quarters. Nor was he ever 

 fast. As a sire he was not satisfactory, 

 and his temper, like that of his sire, was 

 fiendish. He had a great nose. I secured 

 Pomps, however, by him out of Nebula, 





STRIDEAWAY. 



and she was a model of good disposi- 

 tion, intelligence and work. 



Having lost Roswell I bred Pomps to 

 Robert le Diable and the puppies were 

 beauties. In them, you see, 1 had com- 

 bined Beulah, Meteor, Graphic, and 

 Croxteth or Robert. I bred her 

 three times to Robert and the offspring 

 was good. One of these puppies, Soult, 

 took first at New York in 1891, the 

 last time poor Tracy judged. This 

 puppy contracted pneumonia at the 

 show, and died two weeks later. Then 

 Pomps died and I lost that line. 



Old Zobeide (Vandevort's Don ex- 

 Beulah) left me a daughter by Croxteth 

 named Eva W, a full blood sister of 

 Ossian (Croxteth ex-Amine), and I had 

 a fairly good dog by Romeo ex-Young 

 Beulah, named John White. His puppy 

 by EvaW, is named Beulah III. (Peggy), 



and she, of all my dogs, is the only fe- 

 male I now have left. Old Romeo, 

 deaf as an adder, and his son, John 

 White, are my only dogs. This is Peg- 

 gy's first year in the field. Short broke 

 her. She is as pretty as the pictures on 

 a wad box, and is all I could ask. 



In her I have the blood of all the 

 dogs I most admired, Old Beulah and 

 Young Beulah, Zobeide, Vandevort's 

 Don, Croxteth, Graphic, and three 

 Bang crosses. 



I came near losing the blood, but in- 

 tend to replenish it now and save at 

 least three females. I will place them 

 with friends in Virginia, for New York 

 is no place to keep dogs, and will direct 

 their breeding. 



It has always been a source of regret 

 to me that I did not obtain a Main- 

 spring cross. He was one of the best 

 little field dogs we have had of late years. 



There is no doubt that King of Kent 

 is the greatest sire we have ever had, 

 and but for the appearance of Stride- 

 away I fully intended to breed to Rip 

 Rap or King of Kent. I prefer Stride- 

 away, because of his color, for I confess 

 to the old-time prejudice against black 

 and white pointers ; and King of Kent 

 is getting old. For these reasons I pre- 

 fer his young son. Moreover, I believe 

 in the theory of atavism, and would ex- 

 pect a reproduction of King of Kent, 

 with more confidence, in the second 

 than in the first generation, especially 

 as Strideaway's blood, on his mother's 

 side, is so good. 



Bang-Bang is another pointer that 

 would have been a great fielder, in my 

 opinion, if he had not passed so much 

 of his life in the kennel. 



Pearl's Dot, the dam of Strideaway, 

 and Trinket's Bang, her sire, were also 

 two mighty good dogs. 



Well, the next question is, To what 

 pointer should Peggy be bred to obtain 

 the finest field dog? I have studied 

 that anxiously. There is the Duke of 

 Hessen blood ; there is the Duke of 

 Kent ; there is the Lad of Kent. They 

 are all exceedingly good dogs ; but af- 

 ter thinking it all over, 1 believe 1 have 

 picked my dog, and little Strideaway is, 

 in my opinion, the most desirable sire 

 now living. 



He is not a beauty, but what of that ? 

 How often do dogs reproduce them- 

 selves in the first generation ? 



