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mended: John Charlton, Newcastle; Charles Lloyd, Howick, 

 Alnwick ; and Edward Cowen, Blaydon. Commended: Charles 

 Hibbert, Greenbank, Smallshaw, Ashton-under-Lyne ; and Thomas 

 Scott, Longhurst. Twenty-three competitors. 



'"SETTERS. Best, one of Pape's celebrated double-barrelled guns, 

 worth from 15 to 20. First : William Jobling, Morpeth (Black- 

 and-tan). Very highly commended: Thomas Robson, Ord Street, 

 Newcastle. Highly commended: Thompson Coe, Middlesbrough. 

 Commended : R. Story, Quarrington,^ Ferryhill ; William Wilkinson, 

 Darlington ; Thomas Green, Blanchland, Riding Mill ; John Grisdale, 

 Na worth Castle, Brampton ; Matthew Taylor, Whickham ; and Robert 

 Kerp, Monteviat, Jedburgh. Thirty-six competitors.' 



"Mr. Shorthose, who is seventy-seven years of age, being seven years 

 Mr. Pape's senior, was not associated with Pointers at this time, but 

 had kept English Water-spaniels from a lad, when at home with his 

 parents, who lived about a mile from the River Trent, in Staffordshire. 

 Mr. Pape, on the other hand, being a well-known gunsmith, was 

 associated with Pointers and Setters, which were then used largely, 

 almost exclusively, for shooting over. Indeed, Mr. Pape had a well- 

 known breed of Pointers, and his father before him kept many 

 breeds of dogs. 



"The show being a success, it induced the late Mr. Richard 

 Brailsford, the late Mr. Frederick Burdett, the late Viscount Curzon 

 (afterwards Earl Howe), and the late J. H. Walsh ('Stonehenge') to 

 organise a similar Show of Sporting Dogs in Birmingham at the end 

 of the same year (1859), and this led to the formation of the present 

 Birmingham Dog Show Society, which has held a show in the 

 Midland metropolis every year since that date." Our Dogs. 



As I am sure many of my readers will like to have the details 

 of this historic show before them, I will not apologise for quoting, 

 almost verbatim, from the interesting article which appeared in 

 the last Christmas number of the above-named popular paper, so 

 well known amongst Doggy People in this and other countries. 



The Mr. R. Brailsford mentioned as an exhibitor and judge at 

 the first dog show, and who, if I am not mistaken, was in some 

 way connected with Lord Derby's kennels, was the organiser, or 

 promoter, of what is stated to be the first show ever held at 

 Birmingham in November of that same year (1859), although it was 

 confined to Sporting Dogs only, and not many classes of them, as 



