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cock and pheasant, and is thoroughly suitable for 

 .a " one dog man." 



The Anglesea setter, the Newcastle setter, the 

 Featherstone setter, and others that could be men- 

 tioned are but local strains of the general variety 

 as it is diffused throughout the country. In no case 

 have they been kept sufficiently pure to justify any- 

 one placing them as varieties of their own. The Earl 

 -of Tankerville has had good setters, and so has Lord 

 Waterpark ; likewise, Mr. Jones of Oscot, the late 

 Mr. F. R. Bevan, Mr. W. Lort, Mr. Bayley, Colonel 

 Cotes, Mr. R. Lloyd Price, Mr. Cunnington, Mr. 

 Paul Hackett, but none of them laid claim to any 

 particular strain of their own. 



The Russian setter has often been alluded to by 

 previous writers. " Stonehenge " gives us a picture 

 of one, but such a dog has either died out altogether 

 or been returned to the country that gave him birth. 

 As a fact I do not believe the Russians ever 

 had a setter of their own. For years Mr. Purcell 

 Llewellin offered a prize for him at the Birming- 

 ham show, but in no instance was there an entry 

 forthcoming. Possibly, in promising such a thing 

 the Welsh squire was poking fun at the breed, and, 

 in a way of his own, endeavouring to prove to the 

 public what he thought himself, that such a thing 

 as a " Russian setter" had only existence in fancy. 



