The Rev. Hans K Hamilton 



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colour,- with white markings, blaze up face, three-quarters broad 

 collar, white chest, feet, and tip of tail. She had just come home 

 from the shepherd, with whom she had been at work." 



I may mention, with respect to the last paragraph, that I believe 

 it is the invariable rule that the specimens bred in this kennel are 

 trained to do their work as sheep dogs, and none are sent out but 

 genuine workers. 



Although it is not generally known, I have the breeder's authority 



From photo by French & Co., Wallington 



REV. H. F. HAMILTON'S COLLIE WOODMANSTERNE TARTAN 



to say the puppy referred to in the Stock-keeper notice quoted above 

 as Christopher is not the one afterwards so well known under that 

 name, as he unfortunately died, as a puppy, of distemper ; and it 

 was his brother Percival, who was renamed Christopher, and took 

 numerous honours under that title. 



I have just named a few of the early efforts and their results. 

 To describe all the grand Collies that have gone through Mr. 

 Hamilton's hands would be almost a work of impossibility, but 

 no one has probably turned out so many champions, which included 



