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There are, however, brown retrievers that have 

 better reputations, some are curly-coated, others 

 wavy or straight coated. The latter are repeatedly 

 produced from black parents, are very handsome, 

 and equally useful as any other. Personally I 

 have a great fancy for this pale or chocolate 

 brown, wavy-coated retriever. He is a novelty, 

 and if he shows dirt more than his black parents, 

 his coat is equally glossy, and he is quite as good 

 tempered and sociable. The white or pale primrose- 

 coloured eye is objectionable in this variety as it is 

 in the black. Mr. A. Money-Wigram showed an 

 excellent specimen called Merle, which won second 

 in a class for " retrievers any other colour than 

 black," at the Kennel Club Show in June, 1889, and 

 first in the same class in 1892. It is rather odd 

 that in the Kennel Club Stud Book for 1892 the 

 awards in several of these retriever classes at the 

 Club Show are altogether omitted. 



One of the prettiest retrievers I ever saw, and one 

 of the best all round in coat, curl, docility of expres- 

 sion and otherwise, was Mr. J. H. Salter's handsome 

 brown bitch Beauty III., and she was not misnamed. 

 She was so good as to be able to win even against 

 the blacks ; her coat remained crisp and hard, and 

 in disposition and temperament she was quite an 

 example to other dogs. Beauty was born of 



