i6o The Sporting Dog 



with the black of the Newfoundland and the in- 

 troduction of the spaniel, produced the liver color 

 of the true Chesapeake Bay dog. In course of 

 time the Chesapeake Bay has, in Maryland, be- 

 come a distinctive breed. 



"At the Carroll Island Club, of which the 

 writer has been a member for over thirty years, 

 and the records of which go back for over a 

 century, this strain of dogs have been carefully 

 bred, and for many years the pedigrees have 

 been kept. The same care in breeding the 

 Chesapeake Bay has been followed at some of 

 the other clubs. 



" From Carroll's Island the stock has been sent 

 to the Curri tuck-sound clubs, and also to the 

 Pacific coast. On the island are still preserved 

 many of the old names of celebrated dogs. We 

 have now a Jimmie, Turk, Dan, Jack, Gill, 

 Mollie, Lady, Tim, Drake, Belle, etc., the wonder- 

 ful retrieving powers of whose ancestors are fully 

 set forth in the records of the ' big bags ' of days 

 gone by." 



On the bench the chief exhibitor among the old 

 Chesapeake Dog Club set was Mr. J. D. Mallory, 

 who usually took out most of the ribbons when 

 he put his dogs down. 



Both the Irish water-spaniel and the Chesa- 

 peake Bay dog are gallant swimmers and hardy 

 retrievers. The Irishman is sadly weak in the 



