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wheaten in colour, with a few black hairs inter- 

 mingled, and with black points, and showed neither 

 undue deerhound or Great Dane blood. Moreover, 

 she proved an excellent brood bitch, being dam of 

 Dhuart and Mr. Hood Wright's Starno, both excelling 

 in type, which is so difficult to find in the present 

 generation. 



It is rather unfortunate that so fine a dog has not 

 attracted popular fancy. Had it done so, there 

 would have been as much a run on the Irish w^olf- 

 hound as there has been on other and perhaps less 

 deserving varieties. The club to look after its 

 interests is fairly successful, but there is a sad lack 

 of enterprise amongst the general public. Even the 

 natives of the Emerald Isle themselves have refused 

 to answer the call, although, in the national emblem 

 of Erin, an Irish wolfhound is lying beside the harp, 

 and, as a rule, the prizes at Dublin for the national 

 breed of dogs are swept away by the Saxon invader. 

 Their terrier they patronise, but neglect the woll- 

 hound and the Kerry beagle. Had it not been for 

 a Scotsman, Captain G. A. Graham, this canine 

 relic of a mighty race might even now be extinct. 

 To prevent its becoming so, earnest admirers of 

 the dog, such as he, with the Hon. Miss Dillon ; 

 Colonel Gamier ; Mr. W. K. Angelo, Brighton ; the 

 Earl of Caledon ; Mr. Hood Wright, Frome ; the 



