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did, or in fact could have served. This is why Frisco, 

 grandson to Elcho, has not been successful as a sire with 

 mongrel bitches, while matched with a pure Palmerston, the 

 produce is all that can be desired. I possess at this 

 moment two sons of Frisco and Grouse II. Shandon II. 

 and Fingal III. and the daughter Aveline. All are bench 

 winners at the largest shows, as well as grand in the field; 

 and one has but to see them to feel at once that he looks 

 on thorough-breds of their species. 



" Desmond II., belonging to Mr. C. T. Thompson, of Phil- 

 adelphia, bred by me, and winner of field trials at Philadel- 

 phia, is of precisely the same blood. This same cross it is 

 that has produced so many bench and field-trial winners for 

 'Claremont' (Doctor Jarvis, of New Hampshire). . . . 

 I have still living, and quite good f or * stud purposes, my 

 Champion Ganymede. He is the sire of Champion Ty- 

 rone, Kildare, and Geraldine, besides many others, and 

 the best type of Irish Setter now living, to my mind. 

 Geraldine II. is granddaughter to Ganymede and Frisco. 



"I fear I have already written too much anent my 

 favorites, but I am sure, under the circumstances, you will 

 excuse me. < < ROBERT O' CALLAGHAN. ' ' 



Both Stonehenge and Vero Shaw record the following 

 as the most noteworthy of the old strains from which the 

 present race of Irish Setters is descended: Among val- 

 uable strains of the Irish Setter are the O' Conner, better 

 known as the La Touche, made famous through Cham- 

 pion Palmerston; Lord Dillons, Lord de Freyne's, also 

 called the French Park breed; Lord Lismore's, Lord Clan- 

 carty's, the Mount Hedges, Lord Rossmore's, and the Mar- 

 quis of Waterford's. In modern days, Doctor Stone, Major 

 Hutchinson, Captain Cooper, Captain French, H. B. Knox, 

 Hon. D. Plunket, Captain Alleway, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. 

 Lipscombe, Mr. O'Brien, and Miss Warburton; and I must 

 include, last, although by no means least, Rev. Robert 

 O'Callaghan. All have won bench-show honors with their 

 dogs, but only Mr. Plunket, and later Rev. O'Callaghan, 



