52 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



detriment he has. Two Irish stocks come to mind, 

 bred for field service through thick and thin, the 

 Law and St. Cloud stocks, and puppies from them 

 will be natural hunters, as their dams and sires 

 were before them. Both stocks are well repre- 

 sented in the stud to-day, and plenty of pups are 

 for sale, so there is nothing in the way of your 

 o^Tiing a red setter if you want a dog for both 

 ducks and upland shooting, no matter whether 

 you live on salt water or in the prairie lake 

 country. 



A little history, for a starter, and then we can 

 see where we stand with a pedigree such as your 

 dog dealer will likely send you. While Signal 

 and Blue Rock were the ancestors of many of the 

 Irish setters in our country, the stock has been con- 

 tinuously enriched with fresh importations from 

 the *'ould counthry," Finglas coming over some- 

 what later, then Elcho, and of late Morty Oge. 

 Mr. Pohl, one of the foremost fanciers of the Irish 

 setter breed in the country, has recently imported 

 two more dogs of the kennel name Eheola which 

 seem bound to figure in future pedigrees, mingled 

 with his Law and St. Cloud stock. Virtually all 

 the above dogs were champions in their day. Ch. 

 St. Cloud III, the greatest of the St. Cloud stock, 



