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Title: 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
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ations away before Mr.Foljambe had to give up shooting throughhis affliction of blindness, but that is justwhat the hunting men left to blossom outin magnificence by about the earliest fieldtrials, 1865. There never were better dogs 238 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. on game than about that time or perhapsfor some twenty-five years before, and theylasted well into the eighties. They wereas hard as nails for work, no day was longenough for them, and although with beautifultempers in regard to breaking, they were likeBulldogs if stirred up at all. Sir ThomasLennard once gave a couple of tenants adays shooting over Mallard by Drake and row or avenue of Pointers there is a lack ofboldness of expression in countenance, afalling off in bone and substance, andamongst the bitches somewhat the look ofthe toy. What have they been doing withthem ? was my expression, after lookingat a Kennel Club Show lot for ten minutes.Of course it is well known that many of theold breeders have died, and others have
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WAITING THE FLIGHT.Photograph by C. RdJ, Wishan Young Bang. They worked splendidly, and,finding lots of birds, the farmers weredelighted with the sport. Bang, though,had been getting jealous at the other wipinghis eye, as it is called, once or twice, and in apatch of potatoes went for his opponent, andthe two fought like tigers, Tom Knowlton,their excellent breaker, having as much as hecould do to separate them. The question is,though, has the excellence of the mid-century been maintained down to date ? arethe modern Pointers for the moor or fieldequal to Drake, Champion Bang, Macgregor,Mr. Barclay Fields Dick, Sir Thomas Len-nards Priam, or Mr. Lloyd Prices Belle ?The show benches give a refutation to thatidea. In a Crystal Palace or Birmingham given up. Mr. Sam Price has been deadnow for some years, and so have Mr. ThomasStaffer, Mr. Barclay Field, Mr. J. H. White-house, Mr. Heywood Lonsdale, the Duke ofWestminster, H. Brailsford, and Mr. W.Lort ; but still there are Mr. Norrish and

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