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a rule, train them for field trial work. This has 

 been noticed to such an extent as to draw forth 

 the remark that the field trial dog and the show 

 dog are two distinct articles. I am of opinion 

 that the absence of the show dog from the public 

 field arises from the fact that he has not been 

 afforded training opportunities, and is not from 

 natural unfitness. Of course, there are good and 

 bad dogs of all strains, and it is not every dog, even 

 from the best of parents that ever w r orked at a trial, 

 that will come forward creditably in a similar 

 position, and I am fully certain that, did Mr. 

 Cockerton, already alluded to, enter his dogs for 

 field trial work as Mr. Llewellin and others do 

 their's, the former would give quite as good an 

 account of themselves as the others. 



Monk of Furness, one of show strain and a bench 

 champion, was as good a dog in the field as ever ran, 

 and at times, says Nicholson, had done better work 

 than any other of his kennel. He performed credit- 

 ably at the National Trials, though it was not 

 one of his best days. He, however, was the sire 

 to Mr. Nicholson's Master Sam, Mr. F. Lowe's 

 little bitch, Nun of Kippen, and Mr. T. Lauder's 

 Sweep the Green, whose public work was quite as 

 good as any one need wish to see ; and a bitch 

 that Mr. Cockerton has now one of the very best 



