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Maharajah of Dholpur, at the Ladies' Kennel Association Show at 

 the Royal Botanical Gardens, 1901. 



Mr. Powers breeds and exports a great many Collies to all parts of 

 the world, but is always open to buy a good one, and has made 

 many excellent deals. 



He has judged at most of the best shows both at home and 

 abroad, is an hon. member of the German Collie Club, a member 

 of the Collie Club, life member of the Northern and Midland Sheep- 

 dog Club, the Scottish Collie Club, and many others. 



He tells me he has a lot of good stock at the present time ; in his 

 opinion he never had better. He is a firm believer in breeding from 

 the best and most typical bitches obtainable, and he considers he 

 owes his success to having always followed this plan. 



Mr. Powers is very popular with a large circle of friends, and a 

 very downright, outspoken fancier, who has the courage of his 

 opinions, and not at all spoiled by success. He has shown much 

 judgment and ability in connection with his hobby, and there are 

 few amongst Doggy People who have done better with Collies than 

 the subject of my sketch. 



I am able to give with this sketch a good portrait of Mr. Powers, 

 and of Barwell Constance, his latest debutante. 



Mr. James Pratt 



I HAVE been for a great part of my life a keen lover of Skye Terriers, 

 both Drop- and Prick eared. I do not know I have any preference for 

 one sort over the other, and the subject of this sketch and I have 

 had many a chat about dogs. Mr. Pratt must be one of the oldest 

 Skye fanciers left amongst us. At one time he had the finest kennel, 

 at any rate in England, of the breed, and told me he has bred more 

 than a thousand of them in his time ! 



In the first volume of the Kennel Club Stud Book it will be found 

 that some of the longest pedigrees for Skyes are those of his speci- 

 mens, which were carefully bred from black and dark grey parents 

 for many generations. 



In the portrait I have received from this well-known fancier he will 

 be seen wearing a Scottish bonnet, one hundred years old, and 

 formerly belonging to Gordon Cumming (whose books on Big Game 

 Hunting in Africa, etc., we have, some of us, read), accompanied by 

 his Skye White Piper, whom he considered an albino, so rarely is 

 pure white seen in that variety ; and on this point the writer, in a 



