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Sir St. George Gore's Gruim has already been noticed. He was said to stand 32 to 33 

 inches (?), and was a very well-shaped and excellent dog. He was at his prime about 1843-44. 



Black Bran, a 31-inch dog, in reality a black brindle, was a remarkably good dog about 

 1850-51. 



The Marquis of Breadalbane's King of the Forest was a dog of extraordinary size, being, 

 it is supposed, 33 inches high. He was held to be a good dog. 



An unusually fine dog, called Alder, was shown many times about 1863-67 -the property 

 of Mr. Beasley, bred, it was asserted, by Sir John McNiel of Colonsay that stood about 

 31^ inches, and probably weighed nolbs. This was a very well-shaped dog, not too bulky, 

 of a dark brindle colour ; coat very hard. Unfortunately, this dog never got any descendants 

 worthy of himself. He was a grand animal. 



In later years we have Torrom, first shown at Birmingham by his breeder, Mr. Donald 

 Cameron of Lochiel, in 1869, he then being three years old. He afterwards passed into the 

 possession of Mr. H. Chaworth Musters, and won numerous prizes, being known as Champion 

 Old Torrom. This dog, as far as could be ascertained, threw back to some ancestor of 

 gigantic size probably Lord Breadalbane's King of the Forest. He was an extraordinarily 

 heavy dog for a Deerhound, and usually considered lumbersome, and found too much, so for 

 work by his owner, who got rid of him for this reason. His head was very massive, and his 

 coat very full and soft ; legs by no means straight a weakness which many of his descendants 

 have inherited. He was a medium brownish colour, faintly brindle, very long in make ; ears 

 very coarse, and tail of extreme length. He stood 3.1 inches, girthed 35, and weighed, fat, 

 about 1 10 Ibs. 



His two sons Monzie, out of Brenda, bred by and the property of Mr. Musters, and 

 Young Torrom, out of Braie, bred by Mr. Hancock are both dogs of great size, standing 

 31 inches and weighing about 105 Ibs.; the former considerably the better dog of the two. 

 The latter dog was exported to America some three years ago-. 



Of a different strain going direct back to McNiel's dogs we have Hector, the property 

 of Mr. Dadley, head-keeper to the Marquis of Bristol a splendid dog, of darkish brindle colour, 

 good rough coat, and well-shaped, by Giaour, out of Hylda ; height, 31 inches; girth, 35; 

 weight, 105 Ibs. A good dog with deer, and thoroughly well-bred probably the best-bred 

 dog now extant. 



His two sons Oscar, the property of Mr. Phillips, Croxton House, Boxford, a very fine 

 symmetrical dog, of great length, rather pale-fawn brindle, out of Lufra, a bitch of small 

 size and somewhat uncertain pedigree, standing 31 inches and weighing about 105 Ibs. ; and 

 Sir Bors, the property of Lieutenant-Colonel Leyland, a dog of similar colour, out of Lufra 

 also (a prior litter), a very grand dog in every way. He stands 31 inches, girths 35, and 

 weighs 105 Ibs. 



To go on to a general notice of the cracks. First to be noticed is Mr. Gillespie's 

 celebrated dog Torrom, which is here described in Mr. Gillespie's own words : " He did 

 not stand very high, but was remarkably well formed for strength and speed ; his weight 

 I do not know ; colour steel-grey (what we call blue) ; coat long and silky, with an under- 

 growth of close downy hair of a darker shade ; ears small, and darker in colour than body, 

 with silver-grey dots and tipped with silver-grey silky hair ; he also had a great deal of the same 

 silver-grey silky hair on his face ; tail long and straight, with half turned to one side when erect ; 

 legs very strong, but clean and beautifully formed ; feet small, round, and cat-like ; chest very deep 

 and round ; neck long, arched, and strong ; head small, but with wonderful power of jaw (I haVe 



