28o Modern Dogs. 



loolb. ; Fintragh, 29f inches, and iiolb. weight. 

 Colonel Gamier showed a particularly fine young 

 dog at the Kennel Club's Show at Islington in 1888, 

 which unfortunately died soon after the exhibition. 

 The hound, called Merlin, stood 1,1, inches at the 

 shoulders, and, though unfurnished, scaled 1501b. 

 He was fawn in colour, and undoubtedly the finest 

 specimen of the race I have seen or has yet appeared 

 at any of our shows. Already have I referred to 

 Mr. Angelo's Goth II., who at eighteen months old 

 measured 34 inches at the shoulder, and scaled 

 1341b. Another hound of Mr. Angelo's, called 

 Torrum, and who has killed several deer, is i^i^ inches 

 at the shoulders; whilst Mr. Trainor's Thuggum Thu, 

 shown at the Kennel Club's Show in October, 1896, 

 was quite 34 inches in height, and a well-made dog, 

 too, but, like all of his cousins, inclining very much 

 to the deerhound type. Another very good speci- 

 men is Mr. Crisp's Bran, bred by the Earl of 

 Caledon, and standing 33 inches at the shoulder. 

 He is a steel brindle in colour, but, unlike Thuggum 

 Thu, who inclines to the deerhound, shows his Great 

 Dane descent, though in jaw and other particulars 

 he excels. Perhaps a better bitch has never been 

 shown than Captain Graham's Sheelah, described 

 by one admirer of the variety as the best bitch he 

 ever saw. She was about 30 inches at the shoulders, 



