her numerous offspring were the Champions Bang II. and Bow Bells, Bonus Sancho, Merry Bells, Belle of the Ball, and Grant's Maggie, all of which were sired by Price's Bang. We shall find Chang best represented by his union with Romp, a small, compactly made bitch, owned by the late Mr. Brackenbury, of Exeter; her performances in the field were of the highest order, and her excellence as a worker was transmitted to her progeny. From these Mr. J. H. Salter's well known black and whites, alluded to later on, are descended.

"Besides being the dam of Mr. Sam Price's worldrenowned Bang, Vesta's name is brought down to us through her daughter Sappho, dam of Wagg, already named, and Pearl, dam of Mr. E. C. Norrish's lemon and white Beryl, a famous bench winner at Birmingham and elsewhere, from whom again spring Mr. Norrish's Revel III. and his Saddleback, that quite recently were almost invincible in the show way. For size, substance, and quality combined, Vesta would doubtless compare favourably with any bitch of the present day, and it has always appeared to me a regretful circumstance that Mr. Price allowed her to leave this country at so early a period in her career. From her the most conspicuous representatives of the Bow kennels are descended, amongst them being the above-mentioned Bang, who, with

his son Mike, won for Mr. Price the Cloverly Stakes at Shrewsbury three years in succession; Belle of Bow, Lad of Bow, Lass of Bow, Mealy, Bang's Boy, and Climax. The two latter were his favourites in the field, and it will be remembered that he had the brace actually in his hands at the time of his lamentably sudden death, the evening before the 1st September, 1887.

"Random, the last of the team named above, mated with Mr. Huggins's Juno, gave us the typical Don Juan, sire of the well-known champions Ponto and Fan, from which Mr. Beck's celebrated Naso of Upton is descended on his dam's side, and of Fursdon Juno, dam of Graphic, another of Mr. Norrish's well-known dogs, and now in America. It is unnecessary here to follow the successful careers of Devon bred pointers in other countries, their good deeds would fill a volume.

"Returning again to the progeny of Old Bang and Leach's Belle, Mr. Bulled, of Witheridge, was fortunate in securing one of these, viz., Belle of the Ball. Not only did she bring his name to the fore as a prize winner, but she enabled him to hold his own in the strongest competition. One of the earliest of her progeny was Sambo the Devil, who from the time of his début at Margate in 1879, scored prize after prize, which quickly ran him into

champion honours. Amongst other good ones which the Witheridge kennel bred from Belle of the Ball was the field-trial performer, Lass of Devon, who was by Mr. Stranger's Don of Devon, and Devon Noble. More recently Mr. Bulled has been successfully breeding from the Village Star, a daughter of Devon Jack-Bell Bona, litter sister to Bonus Sancho. From her came his present day field trial and bench winners Devonshire Nero, Devonshire Sall, and Devonshire Lady."

However, the most successful of all Devonshire kennels, especially on the show bench, is that of Mr. E. C. Norrish, of Gay's House, Copplestone. Nor has Mr. Norrish restricted himself to the ordinary dogs of the ring, he having latterly made entries at the Field Trials, where animals trained by himself have, as a rule, performed more than fairly, though not always quite so successfully as might be wished. There is no doubt that for some years back the pointers of Mr. Norrish have obtained great celebrity and become almost pre-eminent in maintaining the prestige of the West country strain. Such good animals as Graphic, Saddleback, Vesper, Saddleback II., Revel, Beryl, Sandford Reveller, Truebill, without others that could be named, and equally first class, are quite sufficient to gain a reputation for any kennel.

"Other noted Devonshire pointers are those of Mr. Lloyd-Lloyd, of Totnes, who, as far back as 1875, I find exhibiting a bitch named Adele. From her, by Mr. Sam Price's Old Bang, he bred Hebe, who, in turn, being put to Lord Downe's Bang II. produced the field trial winners Fatima, Elias, and Hero, whose excellence cannot be gainsaid. Hebe's next litter, with Mr. W. Lort's Naso as their sire, included the good looking brace Totnes and Daphne, and the former, in alliance with Mr. J. Fletcher's Young Ponto, produced Nan, who, when the property of Mr. C. H. Beck, was the dam of Naso of Upton, by many persons considered to be one of the very best pointers ever bred, at any rate, so far as beauty was concerned.

"To Daphne Mr. Lloyd owes much of his early reputation as a successful breeder. Her career on the bench was brilliant. Shown always in the pink of condition, only bitches of extra merit could hold their own with her; moreover she transmitted to her progeny many of her most taking qualities, and some of the best in the Totnes kennels at the present day are directly descended from her. By her union with Mr. Norrish's great dog Graphic, she produced Zasme, Zero, and Zeus. The latter was a frequent winner at some of our principal shows, and, by mating him back to Old Hebe, Mr. Lloyd bred

the remarkably handsome brace of bitches Ilma and Lady Jane. Many connoisseurs considered Lady Jane the better of the brace. She was, however, some years since, sold to a gentleman in Russia, and we have thus lost sight of her. Ilma is with us still, and has added to the reputation of her kennel by producing a litter of puppies to Mr. Raper's Naso of Strasburg-a descendant of Price's old champion Bang. Another good litter which Mr. Lloyd bred from Daphne was that by Mr. Wroth's Don, the best of which were the well-known Totnes Parody and the lemon and white Totnes Onyx.

"That strain, of which Wroth's Don is a representative, deserves a passing notice. His dam, Mr. Andrew's Sappho, came directly from the Croxteth kennels, and was by Lord Sefton's Sam-his Flirt, while his sire, Mr. Norrish's Old Bob, was equally well bred, being by Mr. Whitehouse's renowned Hamlet-Pearl, Hamlet's granddaughter.

"Mr. Norrish's Donald, Revel, and Digby were all of the same family as Wroth's Don. Donald, it will be remembered, won at Birmingham in the smallsized dog class in 1879. After securing other leading prizes he went to America, where he continued his successful career. Revel proved to be a Field. Trial crack, being very smart and fast. The part she took in a sensational trial at Blandford in 1882 is