134 Modern Dogs. 



exhibiting about 1870. The following year had the 

 celebrated Warrior, that won so many prizes up and 

 down the country, mostly in variety classes. How- 

 ever, prior to him came one or two exceptionally 

 good dogs, Mr Beasley's bitch Countess especially 

 so ; nor must Mr. Hickman's excellent bitch Morna 

 be omitted, for he was not only good to look at, but 

 could boast a lineage which contained some of the 

 bluest blood of the day. Following a few years 

 later was that fine old dog Bevis (Mr. Hood 

 Wright's), so sober and sedate that in his declining 

 years he took to the stage, and appeared with great 

 success at one or two of the Sheffield pantomimes 

 at Christmas. 



There are now, at least a dozen shows held 

 annually, at which classes are provided for this 

 variety, and naturally new breeders have sprung 

 up. Mr. E. Weston Bell, of Rossie, Perthshire, has 

 got together a kennel containing a number of 

 splendid deerhounds ; and Mr. W. H. Singer, of 

 Frome, Somerset ; Mr. Walter Evans, Birchfield, 

 Birmingham; Mr. Rr. H. Wright, Newton-le- Willows; 

 Mr. H. P. Parker, Stourbridge ; Mr. W. Gibbons, 

 Stratford-on-Avon ; Mr. A. Maxwell, Croft, near 

 Darlington ; Major Lewis, Bath, all possess deer- 

 hounds of the highest merit. Perhaps the best of 

 the race, at the time I write, in the summer of 



