382 Modern Dogs. 



pure and simple Newfoundlands, and it has taken 

 a few years' careful work to bring the wavy 

 retriever to what it is at the present time. Not 

 too big but just big enough. Our grandfathers 

 said, " Oh ! we want a big retriever, a strong 'un ; 

 one that can jump a gate with an 81b. hare in its 

 mouth, and gallop with one at full speed." This is 

 not so now. A comparatively small dog is well able 

 to carry a hare, and shooting is so precise that puss 

 does not run as far as she did, when properly hit. 

 Dogs are not made to assist bad shooters to fill a 

 bag, and a man who cannot, in ninety-nine cases 

 out of a hundred, stop a hare before she has run 

 seventy yards, ought not to fire at another. And 

 you do not require to have a special dog for the one 

 chance in a hundred. 



Such animals as Dr. Bond Moore used to show 

 were of enormous size and coarse to boot, and I 

 am sure would not be looked at in the show ring to- 

 day. If any of the blood of this strain remains it 

 must be in very small quantities. One or two of 

 his dogs had ugly light eyes, which, objectionable as 

 it may be in other dark-coloured dogs, is more than 

 trebly so in a retriever. The two Wyndhams that 

 came earlier were better dogs, especially Mr. 

 Meyrick's, that was winning at the leading . shows 

 from 1864 to 1870. Mr. Brailsford brought out the 



