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which is not quite straight, but he excels several 

 other notable dogs in carriage. In the spring of 

 this year he beat Stracathro Ralph, a very excellent 

 dog that had been successfully shown by his owner 

 and breeder, Mr. Morton Campbell, of Dun 

 House, near Montrose. The Scottish-bred dog had 

 worked into the challenge class and was always an 

 improving sort, and his opponent had also been the 

 latter, for on previous occasions he had never found 

 so great an honour in the prize lists. Stracathro 

 Ralph is a son of Christopher, already mentioned. 



But so many collies are bred for show purposes, 

 that it is no wonder new faces of extraordinary 

 merit appear to be cropping up every few months. 

 Now, in 1893, there are, no doubt, more good 

 collies on the bench many of them young ones 

 than had previously been the case. At the 

 Manchester show in March, this was particularly 

 apparent, and Mr. J. S. Diggle, of Chorlton, 

 had a couple of bitch puppies there of very great 

 merit. One of them, Parbold Phyllis, bred by Mr. 

 Hugo Ainscough, of near Southport, who just at 

 this time appeared particularly successful with his 

 strain, is all-round perhaps the best collie bitch yet 

 seen, a big one without being coarse, and a little 

 soft and fluffy in coat, still in other respects she 

 is almost perfect. However, she was but ten 



