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for woodland shooting. Sir Eoger, the Lingfields, 

 the Alberts, the Queens, Mallwyds, Wellingtons, 

 Uhlans, Ch. Deodora — these are Laverack names 

 that mean good grouse dogs as well as great bench 

 winners. 



A glance at the Irish setters, for to my mind a 

 renaissance of that noble breed is about due in 

 our country. For your combined bird dog, salt- 

 water retriever and hunting companion, handsome 

 and easy to keep looking presentable, the Irish- 

 man is hard to beat. The owner of one of the best 

 collections of Irish setters in the country is Mr. 

 Otto Pohl, and his ambition is to place one of them 

 among our field trial winners. This kennel of eight 

 dogs comprises all field hunters, free from the 

 bench-show specialisation that has kept our Irish 

 setters back during the last decade. This tend- 

 ency to specialise has done the fancy lots of 

 harm, as new sportsmen purchasers have been 

 loath to buy Irish setter pups that may not own 

 a hunting sire or dam for three generations back, 

 preferring English that they know will be natural 

 hunters, besides which the reputation for stub- 

 bornness that the Irish setter has accumulated 

 also militates against him. And further, he is 

 hard to see in the woods, which is the only real 



