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Now to touch on breeders of the present day. 



The Duke of Sutherland owns good-looking and useful dogs, but they are small, and 

 a doubt is expressed in some quarters as to their true breeding. Regarding some of those 

 formerly in his possession there, however, can be no doubt. 



Mr. Spencer Lucy of Charlcote has some of the strain of Menzies of Chesthill, as 

 before-mentioned, and has been crossing with one or two well-known prize-takers it is 

 believed with satisfactory results. 



Mr. Gillespie of Tulloch, Kingussie, should be mentioned here, being the breeder and 

 owner of the far-famed Torrom. Though Mr. Gillespie was hardly to be considered a breeder 

 of Deerhounds, yet this dog was such a notoriously good one that, in justice to the subject, 

 notice of his breeder cannot be omitted. 



Mr. Donald Cameron of Lochiel is well known to Deerhound lovers as the breeder of 

 Pirate and the giant Torrom. These dogs were from a bitch, Loy, by Mr. Gillespie's 

 Torrom, by Campbell of Monzie's Grumach. 



Mr. H. Chaworth Musters is known widely as the owner of the above-mentioned Torrom, 

 which was purchased from " Lochiel " by a Mr. Bowles when exhibited at the Birmingham 

 show in 1869, he then being three years old. He was afterwards purchased by Mr. Musters, and 

 has been extensively bred from, with varied success. 



Mr. R. Hood Wright has also bred some very fair Deerhounds. He is mentioned before 

 as having the strain of Menzies of Chesthill in his kennels. 



The late Sydney Dobell owned a very capital breed of Deerhound, descended from a bitch 

 presented to him by Flora Macdonald of Skye. These dogs have had much to do with some 

 of the best dogs now extant. They were said to be of pure Glengarry breed. 



The last, and perhaps the most successful, breeder to whom allusion will be made is Mr. 

 Thomas Morse. The dogs bred by this gentleman have proved themselves most successful 

 candidates for public favour, and have gone to the top of the tree so far as prize-taking is 

 concerned, and no doubt, where opportunity has offered, have proved themselves as good and 

 true as they unquestionably are good-looking. Amongst them, Mr. Hemming's Linda, Mr. 

 Chinnery's Duke, and Mr. Hay's Rufus, may be mentioned. Mr. Morse decidedly owes much, if 

 not all, of his success to his judicious use of that magnificent dog Keildar, and the produce 

 have in many instances thrown to him in a marked manner, even so far as two generations off. 



Before concluding this notice of breeders, the Hon. Mrs. Deane Morgan, living in Co. Wexford, 

 Irela-nd, should be mentioned, who now has dogs descended from pure strains brought from 

 Scotland many years ago. It is believed these are fine animals, of which their owner is re- 

 markably proud. One was given by her to Mr. George Dennis, Her Majesty's Consul in Sicily, 

 and is reported by him to be an extraordinarily fine and noble animal. Mr. Dennis has lately 

 taken a very well-descended young bitch out to Sicily to mate with him. 



Mr. George Cupples has also bred many good dogs, amongst them Spey, now the property 

 of Mr. Morse selected to illustrate this article. There are several other breeders of years gone 

 by whom the writer had perhaps better mention by name, and though he personally knows but 

 little of their strains, they were reckoned to be remarkably good ones namely, Lord Seaforth, 

 McDonald of Keppoch, McKenzie of Kintail, and General Ross of Glenmoidart. 



It is now proposed to allude to a few of the largest " noted " dogs before proceeding to 

 describe generally the "cracks" of the breed that have arisen during the last thirty-five 

 years. 



