House and Garden 
Spencer Borden of Fall River, Mass., Mr, M. Roose¬ 
velt Schuyler of Nyack, N. Y., and Mr. E. H. Hoff¬ 
man of Lyndonville, Vt. I'hey do not favor the intro¬ 
duction of the blood of other types for the purpose of 
getting more size. And when that blood happens to 
be quite heterogeneous—the hackney for instance— 
they scoff at such experiments and declare that it 
leads to sure mongrelization. 
The picture presented here is of Mr. M. Roosevelt 
Schuyler’s bay stallion “Rob Roy.” He is surely of the 
old-fashioned type. He is not fifteen hands in height, 
but he is blocky, symmetrical and full of grace and 
speed. He has trotted a mile in less than 2.20 with¬ 
out training, except the ordinary road driving. He 
is thirteen or fourteen years old, but he still keeps his 
speed and the road is never too long. 
His pedigree is most interesting to study. On 
every side and almost in each line of descent it goes 
back to “Justin Morgan,” the founder. “Rob” was 
sired by “ Ethan Allen 2d ” a colt of Peter’s “ Mor¬ 
gan,” out of “Nellie,” who was sired by “ Ethan 
Allen.” “Rob’s” dam was a daughter of “Star¬ 
light,” out of a daughter of Peter’s “ Morgan.” But 
the important thing in this horse’s pedigree is that 
the degrading Hambletonian and Abdallah blood 
is absolutely lacking. 
A CONTRAST 
TN the picture below we see two horses—one a 
mammoth and the other a miniature. The 
large horse is an imported Clydesdale stallion “ Baron 
Doune. ” He was a winner of first prizes at both the 
Iowa State Fair and the Minnesota State Fair. 
The little fellow, the hackney pony “Jupiter,” is 
now twenty three years old. He was practically 
unbeatable in the show ring, winning three years in 
succession at Chicago; he was also a great jumper 
and was never beaten at this game by anything of his 
size. East autumn this pony’s grandsire, “ Mars,” 
was still alive in England. 
These horses were imported and are owned by 
Alex. Galbraith & Son, Janesville, Wisconsin. 
ENGLISH BLOODHOUNDS 
By J. L. Wlncliell 
HERE is a prejudice, born of ignorance, as to 
the English bloodhound. He is a very valu¬ 
able dog and very companionable. His appearance, 
to those who know him not, is against his popularity, 
but to those who have studied him, who have lived 
with him his face and his mien are both filled with 
dignity. The prejudice we have against him is that 
we naturally have against a detective. To hunt men 
seems repugnant to our nice sense of the proprieties. 
No woman would ever have fallen in love with Sher¬ 
lock Holmes. But for a dog to hunt a man seems 
particularly repugnant and so we have in an idle and 
ill considered way put the bloodhound under the ban. 
Then again bloodhounds in modern times have been 
used to find criminals and other unfortunates, the 
criminal being the greatest unfortunate in the world. 
Bringing a man to justice is an obnoxious thing, for 
a dog to do it seems a bit unnatural. In the old days, 
when in England stealing was a capital offence and 
punished by death, it was held that a man who stole 
a dog was guiltless though a man who stole a dog’s 
skin was guilty, for the learned judge charged that it 
was not meet that a man should die for a dog, but a 
dog’s skin was property and the stealing of it was 
theft. Ideas may have changed in the intervening 
English Bloodhounds 
Mother, and daughter eight months old 
Bred and owned by J. L. Winchell 
“ Baron Doune ” and “ Jupiter ” 
Owned by Alexander Galbraith & Son, 
Janesville, Wis. 
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