1 1 8 Modern Dogs. 



Megs on open his purse, on this occasion paying, 

 it is said, ^530 to Mr. Boddington for Metchley 

 Wonder, a dog that I had engraved for " The 

 Collie or Sheep Dog," published by Horace Cox in 

 1890. Wonder has been a remunerative invest- 

 ment in many ways, and as a fact, there is no better 

 dog living at the present time, though others have 

 been bought and sold for even higher prices. 



The Messrs. Stretch, of Ormskirk, have been 

 peculiarly successful with their collies, and in 

 addition to those bred by themselves, they have 

 displayed excellent judgment in the purchase of 

 others. From Mr. Hamilton they obtained Chris- 

 topher, a sable dog that did so well in the change 

 of kennels that Mr. Mitchell Harrison, of the 

 United States, paid the equivalent (in other dogs 

 and cash) of ^1000 for this handsome son of 

 Metchley Wonder and Peggie II. Since then, 

 Messrs. Stretch have sold individual dogs for 

 several hundred pounds apiece and, with one or 

 two others, are considered about the most suc- 

 cessful collie breeders of the present generation. 

 They have had Ormskirk Memoir, Ormskirk Or- 

 mond, Ormskirk Golddust, purchased by them from 

 Mr. Astley, who had claimed him for ^50 at a 

 small south country show, and many other dogs 

 and bitches equally good. The extent of their 



