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An hour or more later one of the keepers found the 

 dog on a stiff point. Had it been red and white 

 such a thing could not have happened. At 

 the same meeting and at others the difficulty of 

 distinguishing the red dogs was brought prominently 

 forward when they were running against liver and 

 white or lemon and white pointers or setters, for the 

 latter could be observed with less than half the 

 difficulty it took to discern the native animals. 



Nor have I found that birds lie one bit the better 

 to dark coloured dogs than they do to those of a 

 lighter hue. 



The Rev. Thomas Pearce (" Idstone"), writing of 

 the Irish red setter twenty years ago, remarked that 

 he would not be surprised were they to become 

 popular. That they have done so there is no doubt. 



For many years the Rev. J. C. Macdona's Plunket 

 stood alone in his race as the one Irish setter that 

 had ever proved his excellence at Field Trials. 

 This dog, after winning second prize in the aged 

 stake, to Mr. Statter's Bruce, at the National 

 Meeting, Shrewsbury, in, 1870, was purchased by 

 Mr. Purcell-Llewellin, who won the prize for setters 

 with him at Vaynol the same year, and other field 

 trials and bench honours subsequently. Plunket, 

 who was bred by the Hon. D. Plunket, had Captain 

 Hutchinson's Bob for his grandsire ; he was a 



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