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I should conscientiously say that, from what I 

 have observed in his work of late years, and I have 

 seen all the best dogs run, that the Irish setter 

 is as dashing, as energetic, as stylish as the best 

 English dog I ever saw. I believe he, as a general 

 rule, will do a long and hard day's work better than 

 any other breed of setter. His stamina is extra- 

 ordinary. I shall never forget that big, strong dog 

 "Wrestler" (Mr. W. H. Cooper, of Derbyshire), 

 that ran at the Irish Trials in 1891. Each morning 

 he followed, or rather preceded, the cars, during 

 the long ten miles' drive to the moors, on his way 

 racing over the fields and inclosures, and, indeed, 

 doing an ordinary day's work before his trials com- 

 menced, and when he did run his first heat he was 

 even then too wild. No Laverack or Gordon setter 

 would have been allowed to do this, and it must 

 have proved even too much for those untiring 

 liver and white little dogs to which allusion has 

 previously been made in the article on English 

 setters. 



Perhaps after Plunket most attention was attracted 

 to Irish setters by the good work of a bitch, called 

 Aveline, belonging to the Rev. R. O'Callaghan, which 

 ran at the Kennel Club meeting in the spring of 1885. 

 She was a handsome bitch, so much so, indeed, as 

 to obtain the cognomen of " beautiful," and as the 



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