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Mr. Purcell-Llewellin with three or four first prizes, others being 

 taken by Messrs. J. B. Wilson, G. de L. Macdona, T. Cunnington, 

 and B. Field. In Gordon Setters Messrs. Mapplebeck, Rankin, 

 Richardson, J. W. Morris, C. B. Hodgson, Major Meyrick, and Mr. 

 J. D. Sims were the chief winners in the two classes provided for 

 them. Irish Setters, also, with two classes, were represented in the 

 prize list by Messrs. G. de L. Macdona, Milliard, Fletcher, Johnson, 

 McHaffie, and Jephson. Retrievers had a good entry in their eleven 

 classes, Mr. J. VV. Morris being well in front in the Curly Classes, 

 other winners in the two varieties being Messrs. C. J. Cotes, G. 

 Brewis, Bartram, Granville, Waddington, C. Cox, E. G. Farquharson, 

 J. A. Platt, G. T. Teasdale-Buckell, J. D. Gorse, and P. J. Tassell. 

 In the different varieties of Spaniels the winners contained some 

 well-known breeders and exhibitors, Messrs. J. Fletcher, Skidmore, 

 Brandreth, W. Arkwright, T. B. Bowers, W. Gillett, W. Page, H. B. 

 Spurgin, J. Kendall, and H. Saxby taking all the prizes in the ten 

 classes. Fox-terriers were good entries, and contained a very repre- 

 sentative lot "in the money" Mr. Fred. Burbidge with Nimrod, 

 Dorcas, Bitters, Saracen, Popsey, and Buxom, and Mr. J. H. 

 Murchison with Squib, Olive, and Clara, others being Messrs. 

 Southwell's Spades, Kendall's Little Jim, Kirby's Beauty, Gibson's 

 Bertha, Abbott's Fan, Arkwright's Vulcan, and Jack Terry's Tip. 

 In Wirehairs the winners were Messrs. Carrick's Venture, Easten's 

 Thorn, Richardson's Bramble, and A. Fitzroy's Madge. 



Sheep-dogs were also a very typical group in the prize list, com- 

 prising : in Roughs Messrs. Jubb's Mec, Skinner's Vero, Ashwin's 

 Cocksie (afterwards a well-known winner and sire of much good 

 stock), W. W. Thomson's Marcus (another great winner and sire, 

 who, I think, ended his days with the popular President of the Collie 

 Club), Messrs. Spen's Tyne, W. W. Thomson's Bess, Pilgrim's Eily, 

 and Messrs. Charles's Meg ; in Smooths Messrs. Mapplebeck's well- 

 known Fan and Ashwin's equally celebrated Nellie (who ended her 

 days a respected inmate of my kennel, and her lifelike portrait hangs 

 near the writer now) were the winners. Bull-dogs brought out a lot 

 of the talent of that day in Messrs. Adcock's Toro III., Affable, and 

 Ajax II., Verrinder's Slenderman and Whuskie, Guy's Dick, Bartlett's 

 Nellie, J. W. Berrie's black brindle King Cole (a notable dog in his 

 day), Bowman's Draco, and Robert Fulton's Rose. Bull-terriers 

 divided the prizes between Messrs. Vero Shaw and Alfred George, the 

 former showing a grand team in Tarquin (one of the best large-sized 

 specimens I remember), Sallust, Slaughter, and Riot, and the latter his 



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