352 Modem Dogs. 



There is sufficient evidence in Mr. Bennett's 

 communication to prove that the original Irish 

 setter was red and white, and that the fine red race 

 were the rarer of the two. Even among the earlier 

 days of dog shows few of the best dogs were wholly 

 red, and one of the most shapely and successful of 

 them, Dr. Stone's Dash, was red and white. But 

 the rage was even then abroad for the whole- 

 coloured dogs, and those who procured them would 

 not look at any other, and attacked Dash wherever 

 he won, and called him a mongrel. 



As a fact the red and white dog is the more 

 useful, and the wholly red dog's popularity is the 

 result of the show bench. Those who have ever 

 shot on the mountains and bogs of Ireland cannot 

 fail to have noticed the difficulty there is at times 

 in discerning the red dog, when on a wide range, with 

 a brown heather background, he comes to a point. 

 By no means is it unusual to lose your dog under 

 such circumstances, and if he is not altogether lost, 

 and his skeleton found still pointing when the 

 shooter goes that way in twelve months time, it is 

 through the good sense of the dog, who would never 

 commit suicide under such conditions. A couple 

 of years ago, at the Field meeting, held in county 

 Tyrone, Mr. J. G. Hawkes lost one of his dogs 

 under such circumstances whilst running a trial. 



