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hind legs up to stifles, and on the under side of the flag, but not running into its 

 long hair. 



I have selected Mr. Coath's Lang to illustrate this breed, and Mr. Baker has 

 furnished a wonderful likeness of this elegant dog. On the show bench he has 

 been very successful since the retirement of his sire Reuben from old age, having 

 won first and champion prizes at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Crystal Palace (twice), 

 Birmingham (thrice), and Alexandra Palace. At the Shrewsbury field trials of 

 1872 and 1873, he was entered, and showed great pace and a fine style of going; 

 but in the former year his pace was too great for the absence of scent and covert 

 which prevailed there, and he was put out by Mr. Armstrong's Don, in one of 

 those unsatisfactory trials to which owners of dogs have so often been reduced 

 there. In the next year he showed well at first with Mr. Barclay Field's Rake, 

 but was put out from chasing fur. At the same meeting he was bracketed with 

 Mr Macdona's Ranger in the braces, but not being quite steady behind, they were 

 beaten by Mr. Barclay Field's Bruce and Rose. He is a fine slashing dog, of good 

 size, possessing plenty of bone without lumber, and excellent legs and feet. His 

 pedigree is an excellent one, being as follows : 



Lang (Mr. Coath's) 



Reuben 



rMilo (Malcolm's) [ Pand y (JoUing'B) 



C (Pedigree unknown. From 

 TSuwarrow (Birch's) . . . < Duke of Buccleuch's 



( Kennels ) 



1 fKent (Pearce's) 



(^Bounce ..................... < Old Moll, by Jobling's 



(. Dandy. 



It will be seen that he goes back to Jobling's Dandy, on the side of both 

 sire and dam. 



The black and tan setter crosses well with the Irish, and Mr Salter possesses an 

 excellent specimen of the cross in his Young Rex, winner of the first prize at Brighton 

 in the black and tan class in 1876. This dog is by Rex (son of Kent and Regent), 

 out of Sal, a well-bred bitch descended from Major Hutchinson's Bob, and is a 

 good looking dog, as well as a fine mover. Mr. Purcell Llewellyn has also crossed 

 the Laveracks with it, the result, in 1872, being a very beautiful orange belton 

 bitch, Flame, out of Carrie, who was by Pilkington's Dash, out of a daughter of 

 Hutchinson's Bob (winner of the champion prize at the Crystal Palace in 1875) ; 

 and also a 1st prize winner at the Crystal Palace in 1872, and a 2nd at Birmingham 

 in the same year. 



THE IRISH SETTER. 



This breed has long been known to sportsmen throughout Great Britain as 

 a good one, especially in point of stamina, and a class was set apart for it at 

 Birmingham in 1860, a year before the black and tans were similarly favoured, 

 though, I think, hardly from so flattering a cause, and most probably from the 



