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bit of a dog man, and Mr. Turner asked him if 

 he knew in Ireland anybody who could select 

 the best Irish setter on that side. The Irishman 

 promptly gave the name of Mr. Cooper of Cooper 

 Hill, Limerick, Ireland. Correspondence with 

 Mr. Cooper followed. A bench show was on 

 hand at Dublin, and to that show Mr. Oppen- 

 heimer, then living in Russia, had sent the young 

 dog, Elcho. Mr. Cooper purchased Elcho and 

 the Irish setter bitch. Loo II, for Mr. Turner, and 

 sent them over. Elcho was a beautiful dog of 

 rich color and by far the best Irish setter from a 

 bench-show standpoint that had been seen in 

 America. His field qualities, however, were not 

 first-class, and Mr. Turner sold him to Dr. Jarvis 

 of Vermont, after getting from his loins the great 

 bench-show dog, Berkeley, which Mr. Turner sold 

 for $1000 to Mr. A. H. Moore of Philadelphia. 

 Berkeley was a good dog in the field, but lacked 

 style on point, nearly always dropping. A paint- 

 ing of Berkeley, by Tracy, still adorns the breeder's 

 library. 



Mr. Turner imported Erin and Thor from 

 Ireland. Erin was a dog of high field quality, 

 but of very bad temper. On one occasion he 

 attacked Mr. C. B. Whitford, who was his trainer, 

 and Mr. Whitford was compelled to knock him 

 down with a piece of fence rail. Mr. Turner 

 thinks that Erin was never quite the same dog 



