276 Modem Dogs. 



G. A. Graham, who must be said to be the chief sup- 

 porter of the modern variety, says that his own strain 

 '' he can trace back to those had by Richardson in 

 1841-42, though not beyond 1862 from father to 

 son. He says the breed had been kept up by Mr. 

 Baker, of Badylohm Castle, and Sir John Power, of 

 Kilfane, from 1840 to 1865, or thereabouts. He 

 further says that on good grounds it was beheved 

 that ''these dogs were descended from Hamilton 

 Rowan's so called, last of his race, Bran by name, 

 a fine dark grey, rough hound, that was his constant 

 companion." Captain G. A. Graham had a grand- 

 son of Kilfane Oscar, a dog he obtained from Sir 

 Ralph Payne-Gall wey, and from this he traces the 

 purity of the blood as far back as it will go. He 

 advocated a cross with the Great Dane and deer- 

 hound, and latterly, on the popularisation of the 

 Borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, has suggested a 

 third cross with that variety. 



Some of the Irish wolfhounds seen at modern 

 exhibitions are extremely fine animals, docile and 

 quiet as they recline on their benches, and by no 

 means quarrelsome, evidently quite contented with 

 their lot. Indeed, they possess an excellent reputa- 

 tion as companions, especially such as are not the 

 first cross between the two modern varieties already 

 alluded to. I think it was at Brighton show in 



