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his Signal, Muskerry, Miss Signal, are quite as 

 good dogs as any man might be proud of owning. 

 Muskerry, the sire of most of Mr. Hawkes' dogs 

 and other winners, I have not seen, but am told he 

 is a valuable and handsome animal, and has shown 

 extraordinary stamina, though on several occasions 

 he has been terribly hard run. Mrs. Bellew has 

 a large and valued kennel at Tenchurch, Enniskerry, 

 and her Susi, who won in the bitch class, at Curzon 

 Hall, in 1890, is a particularly good specimen. Mr. 

 W. W. Despard, Rathmoyle, Queen's County, has 

 at times shown some excellent dogs, and an 

 omission would be caused were no mention made of 

 the many Irish setters that Mr. W. H. Lipscombe 

 has so often brought from Dublin to compete at our 

 English trials, though they may have not met with 

 that amount of success such enterprise deserved. 

 Mr. Falkiner Nuttall, of Cullinamore, co. Sligo, has 

 for years had many good dogs, of which perhaps 

 Loo VII. was his best. 



Mr. O'Callaghan's success with the " beautiful 

 Aveline" has already been noted, and not inferior 

 to her was his Coleraine, a bitch previously alluded 

 to. On the bench, too, this kennel is often at the 

 big shows seen pitted against that of Mr. Ellis for 

 supremacy, and victory is sometimes one way, and 

 sometimes another. But such dogs as Fingal, 



