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ment after three years' successes, he was good 

 enough to beat the best. Another almost perfect 

 deerhound was Mr. Hickman's Lord of the Isles, of 

 whom a Cameron of Lochiel said he was beyond 

 criticism. The head of this splendid hound is 

 printed on the little pamphlet issued by the Deer- 

 hound Club, and which contains its rules. Unfortu- 

 nately Mr. Hickman only obtained one litter of 

 puppies by him, but of these Fingal was sire of 

 more good hounds of one uniform type than perhaps 

 any other dog of the variety who has succeeded 

 him ; to wit, Enterprise, Earl H., Ensign, Esquire, 

 Rossie Blake, Brian, Bruar, Beppa, Blue Bonnet, 

 and some few others. 



Lord of the Isles, bred by Mr. H. P. Parkes, in 

 1875, was a grandson of Morni, and during his show 

 career was pretty well invincible. Tara, a daughter 

 of CuchuUin and Morna, all with Morni for their 

 sire, were '' lions " in their day ; and Mr. Hickman 

 subsequently owned Barra, Princess Marjorie, and 

 many more, which were always well able to at any 

 rate hold their own, at the Birmingham, London, 

 Warwick, and other large shows where they were 

 entered. Following a few years later was that fine 

 old hound Bevis (Mr. Hood Wright's), so sober 

 and sedate that in his declining years he took 

 to the stage, and appeared with great success 



