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there cropped up in the latter a mirled specimen of more 

 than usual excellence. I think that it was at Dundee 

 show, in 1880, that the judge (Mr. Hugh Dalziel) placed a 

 dog of this colour (Mr. G. L. Lowe's Tweed) at the top of 

 a very fair class, which included Trevor and Highlander, 

 and the same judge, at a smaller exhibition at Fakenham, 

 in Kent, selected another of the same variety, Mr. 

 Brackenridge's Scott, for premier honours. Such dogs as 

 those were more or less flukes, but, by judicious crossing, 

 Mr. Arkwright breeds these mirled specimens almost to 

 order. On many occasions such have been successfully 

 exhibited, and his dog (Blue Sky) and his bitch (Blue Ruin) 

 were particularly good specimens, the latter the best bitch 

 of her year. Mr. Arkwright, in the spring of this year, 

 sold all his collies at Aldridge's, Blue Ruin being purchased 

 for 99 guineas by Mr. Panmure Gordon. 



From Westmorland Dr. James, Kirkby Lonsdale, one of 

 the oldest exhibitors and best of judges, at times intro- 

 duces some dog or bitch of unusual excellence. Indeed, 

 for some years this gentleman has, perhaps, given more 

 attention and devoted more time than anyone else in 

 his attempts to produce the proper article. But breeding 

 even dogs is almost as uncertain as breeding shorthorns, 

 and a man must be both lucky and clever to obtain 

 specimens anything like approaching perfection. He 

 owned the well-known Trevor by Trefoil Maud by 

 Cockie, for a long time, a dog with great character in 

 every way but in his stern, which he preferred to carry 

 right over his back, although good training and the 

 judicious use of a stick when in the ring altered matters 

 considerably, and the brush was carried with a downward 

 curve. Trevor was an oddly-coloured dog, it being a 



