. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . r ten yearshe may have the best kennel of Pointers in CHAMPIONS LUNESDALE WAGG. andLUNESDALE GEORGE. BRED BY LIEUT. F. R. HORNER. good many years now Elias Bishop, ofNewton Abbot, has kept up the old breedsof Devon Pointers, the Ch. Bangs, the Mikes,and the Brackenburg Romps, and his havebeen amongst the best at the shows andthe field trials during the past few 1905 he showed a good work
. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . r ten yearshe may have the best kennel of Pointers in CHAMPIONS LUNESDALE WAGG. andLUNESDALE GEORGE. BRED BY LIEUT. F. R. HORNER. good many years now Elias Bishop, ofNewton Abbot, has kept up the old breedsof Devon Pointers, the Ch. Bangs, the Mikes,and the Brackenburg Romps, and his havebeen amongst the best at the shows andthe field trials during the past few 1905 he showed a good workmanlike-looking dog called Denbury Ranger at theCrystal Palace, and he was rightly awardedfirst in more than one class, and at the sametime Bishop had the winner of the FieldTrial class in Fiscal Policy, by Don are, of course, exceptions to the rulethat many of the modern Pointers do notcarry about them the air of their true business,as at the last Kennel Club Show there werethree good-looking ones in the Maiden classin Mr. Charles Drurys Haisthorpe Shot,Mr. A. J. Mildons Ruby, and Mr. D. Ferndale Halburton, and Radium,that might have been good enough for. mr. w. proctors MELKSHAM FIRST CHOICE BY CH. LUNESDALE WAGG CH. CORONATION. .;; by F. 0. Hignett xnd Sen, I the world. There may be many more bredwith care from existing strains, as so manypeople had Pointers five and twenty yearsago to have made it easy to breed from freshblood as required ; but it would appear that THE POINTER. 241 fewer people keep them now than was thecase a quarter of a century ago, owing to theadvance of quick-shooting, otherwise driving,and the consequent falling away of the old-fashioned methods, both for the stubble andthe moor. However, there are many stillwho enjoy the work of dogs, and it wouldbe a sin indeed in the calendar of Britishsports if the fine old breed of Pointer wereallowed even to deteriorate. The apparentdanger is that the personal or individual ele-ment is dying
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