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brilliant in the extreme. The former made a unique 

 performance by winning both the puppy stake and 

 the all-aged stake, the latter including all varieties 

 of setters and pointers, and she was second, too, in 

 the open puppy stake, beaten by Mr. Lonsdale's 

 Ightfield Rosa. She also, if I mistake not, was 

 third with Woodbine in the braces. Such a per- 

 formance as this over a rough country, at once 

 stamps the excellence of the strain from which she 

 comes. Other good dogs of Mr. Cooper's were 

 winning at the Irish trials in the autumn of 1892. 

 Here his kennel performed unusually well, Clonsilla, 

 a smart bitch, especially distinguishing herself. 



Mr. Taylor's (Dorset) dogs, though successful on 

 the bench, have not yet been tried in public on 

 the mountains, nor have those of his namesake 

 Mr. A. E. Taylor, of Cheadle ; neither have I seen 

 Major Jameson's great bench dog Ponto, or his 

 kennel companion Drenagh anywhere but in the 

 show ring, where they appear to be pretty nearly as 

 good as they can be. 



In what I have written an endeavour has been 

 made to do justice to a handsome and valuable 

 variety of the dog, which, from some cause or other, 

 did not receive its due during a certain era, say from 

 about 1840 to 1880. The development of field 

 trials, the spirited and concerted action of several of 



