36 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



Watson, the famous dog authority, wrote that, ''It 

 is ahnost as a curiosity that we must now view 

 the Irish water spaniel, and not as an essential in 

 wildfowl shooting," yet of late years conditions 

 have changed and we must now have either him 

 or the Chesapeake. The latter is well described 

 in our chapter on special bird-dog families, as are 

 also the Irish water spaniels now at stud. Before 

 them came such dogs as Barney, Mike, Skidmore's 

 Shamrock, Judy, Old Irish Nell, and The 'Dono- 

 ghue. Mr. Olcott also had Chippewa Belle, a 

 daughter of Irish Queen, who was by Barney. 

 Chippewa's sire was Dan, who was by Ch. Mike, 

 the Shamrock dog. Mr. Carson later brought out 

 Marguerite and Musha, and then came Dan 

 Malone, while Ch. Poor Pat and Erin's Float, 

 brought over by the Rev. T. Moore Smith of Scotch 

 Plains, N. J., brings us down to present-day stud 

 dogs. 



Of the griffons and retrievers there is little to 

 mention here, the early history of these breeds be- 

 ing covered in the chapter Who's-Who in Bird 

 Dogs, and of the special divisions of setters, span- 

 iels and the like, most of them belong to such re- 

 cent bench standards as to deserve no particular 

 mention in a general historical treatise. The 

 above will give the dog-loving sportsman a fairly 



