Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
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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ion,and they are unquestionably the best braceof Pointers in the world. Nothing canexceed the perfection of their work, andtogether they are faultless. Shortly after this Mr. Price sold Mike toDoctor Salter for a good figure, and refused400 sovereigns for Bang. In Devonshire it was considered a treatto see Mr. Sam Price and his dog Bangin a morning on partridges : the groundworked with mathematical precision ; Bangsdecisive point, his staunchness to wait for progeny, as, of course, he was patronisedfrom every part of the world. His son Mikewas, if anything, faster than he was, thoughnot always as sure, and his daughter BowBells was a little charm. To see her cut inand out of the wind was delightful, and thenher point was as effective as that of her sire.Bang Bang, who was unlucky not to havewon the Field Trial Derby for Mr. FredLowe in 1881, was a capital dog, and awinner of Field Trials in England, Belgium,and America. He was sold into the lattercountry for 140 sovereigns. Young Bang
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MR W. SHEARER CLARKS CH. LUNESDALE GEORGE. BY LUNESDALE TED DRINDRESS. BRED BY MRS. HORNER. Photograph by C. Rent, Wishaw. his master as long as the latter pleased, andhis perfect manners as the outside bird felland then the other. Mr. Price was an old-fashioned shot, and to miss a right and leftwas rare. With plenty of game about, and thewind in Bangs favour, the bag was alwaysa very big one. Bang had some extraordin-arily good Pointers amongst his numerous was a very good single-handed dog, butjealous with another. As a sire he becamefamous, as the Field Trial Derby winners,Priam and Scamp, were by him out of Teal,by Lord Downes Mars, son of Drake, herdam. Lorts Lill by General Prim, son ofHolford, Bangs dam being by Hamlet, sodoubly bred into the first winners at Southill. THE POINTER. 237 Priam, an extraordinarily good Pointer, wasthe sire of Mr. Salters Paris and Osborn Ale,Field Trial Derby winner of 1884 and 1885.Mr. Salter had an exceptionally good littlebitch also in Romps Ba

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