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elsewhere. No setter cross has ever been used, but 

 one of the older stock, Paris, was a Labrador, still 

 he was a great winner on the bench in his day. Mr. 

 G. T. Bartram's good old dog, Zelstone, used with 

 great success of late years as a sire, has likewise 

 an undoubted strain of Labrador in him. 



I have entered into the particulars of this kennel 

 pretty fully for two reasons because it is the 

 leading one at present, and that from which almost 

 all others have sprung, and, secondly, because it has 

 been previously stated that Mr. Shirley's retrievers 

 were purely and simply crosses from the Labrador. 

 That they have but a slight tinge of that breed in 

 them, and are mainly indebted for their excellence 

 to careful selection from old local strains, is very 

 evident from what I have written. 



Lieut. -Colonel Cornewall Legh, near Knutsford, 

 also owns a considerable kennel of a strain that 

 have proved themselves equally acceptable as 

 workers as on the show bench. Mr. H. Liddell, 

 Otterburn Hall, Northumberland; Mr. John Morrison, 

 Standeford, near Wolverhampton ; Mr. C. A. Phillips, 

 Eccles, Lancashire ; Mr. G. T. Bartram, of Braintree, 

 w^hose Zelstone is alluded to above ; the Rev. 

 W. Serjeantson ; Mr. Harding Cox, and Mr. A. 

 Money- Wigram, have all, at one time or another 

 possessed, or still possess, capital specimens of the 



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