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months old when she made her debut and early 

 maturity I do not like to see. Still, she won the 

 challenge trophy as the best collie in the show, 

 beating Great Gun and all the other cracks, and 

 was ultimately given reserve to a Newfoundland, 

 who won the special awarded to the best non- 

 sporting dog in the hall. Thus Phyllis was pro- 

 nounced second best a very high honour for a 

 puppy to attain. Before this she had won several 

 prizes at a collie show held at Birmingham. 



Other of the more successful breeders are Messrs. 

 Birch, Sefton, near Liverpool, their Sefton Hero 

 being, perhaps, their crack, a winner of over one 

 hundred prizes, a dog for which a large sum of 

 money was refused, still I should place him a little 

 lower in the scale than those previously alluded to. 



In addition to the names given, the following 

 have at one time and another obtained celebrity 

 as owners of collies of special excellence, viz., 

 Mr. C. H. Wheeler, Birmingham ; Mr. R. Chapman, 

 Glenboig ; Mr. W. H. Charles, near Stratford-on- 

 Avon ; Mr. H. Ralph, London; Messrs. Holmes 

 and Halliday, Gainford, near Darlington ; Mr. 

 W. W. Thomson, Mitcham ; Messrs. Birch, Sea- 

 forth ; Mr. H. Ainscough, Parbold, Southport ; 

 Mr. H. Panmure Gordon ; Miss L. Harvey, near 

 Perth; Mr. H. Nimmo, Wishaw ; Mr. B. R. Haigh, 



