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namesake not relative Mr. S. W. Smith, at Leeds, 

 was almost equally strong in the rough-coated 

 division, as he is at the time I write. Other admirers 

 were likewise coming to the front, if they had not 

 already done so. Mr. Norris-Elye, Mr. Duerdin- 

 Dutton, Mr. L. Oppenheim, Mr. Hedley Chapman, 

 Mr. H. I. Betterton, Mr. G. W. Marsden, jun., Mr. 

 A. J. Gosling, Mr. J. W. Rutherglen, Mr. Hughes- 

 Hughes, Miss Campbell, Rev. R. T. Thornton,, 

 Mr. W. R. Reid, Mr. Marshall, Mr. T. Thorburn, 

 Mr. H. G. Sweet, Dr. Inman, &c., but it was not to 

 one of them we were to be indebted for the next 

 wonder in canine form. 



In 1887 Mr T. H. Green, who then resided 

 at Wallasey, near Birkenhead, not far removed 

 from where Mr. Macdona's champions had, twenty 

 years before, rolled on the sands and dabbled 

 in the sea round about Hilbre Rectory, introduced 

 a dog called Sir Bedivere, who was by Nero III. 

 Bena. Standing as high as Plinlimmon, equally 

 heavy and quite as good in body, legs, feet, and 

 general character, Sir Bedivere possessed a perfect 

 head, so for the two years that he remained with us 

 he took all before him whenever he competed in 

 the show ring. His markings and his colour were 

 superb, and although other good dogs have been 

 brought out since, I fancy that Sir Bedivere's equal 



