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Club trials, and was placed third in the open com- 

 petition at the latter meeting. She had greater style 

 and dash than either of the dogs that ran so well 

 for Mr. Milner, and I fancy could have beaten both 

 of them. She went to America. 



Mr. McGofFs Mac's Little Nell, born in 1884, 

 and purchased by Mr. Ellis, was one of the 

 most wonderful little setters I ever saw, though 

 she could barely be 4olb. in weight. She went as 

 fast as the big ones, had an excellent nose, and 

 dropped on scent instantaneously ; in her day no 

 one would have been surprised to have seen her beat 

 anything that she was ever put down against. Her 

 field trial successes, when she died in the winter of 

 1892, had been greater than those of any other Irish 

 setter. 



Mr. Perrin's dogs, although fair performers at the 

 trials, excelled more on the show bench, his Hector, 

 Kate, and Wee Kate being cracks in their line. 

 Similar remarks apply to the Killineys of Mr. 

 Waterhouse, and to the several dogs Mr. Giltrap, 

 the popular secretary of the Irish Setter, has from 

 time to time owned, and still owns. At Glengariff, 

 Kenmare, Mr. J. G. Hawkes spends his leisure 

 in training his dogs, several of which have run 

 successfully at the Irish trials. His Blue Rock, 

 first prize Birmingham in 1890, and such animals as 



