TUB IRISH SETTER. 105 



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. 

 Baiter 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 Hutch- 

 inson'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 favored. 



There is no reason to suppose that any improvement had taken 

 place in this breed in its native country until very recently, when 

 the institution of local shows seems to have stimulated Irish breed- 

 ers to fresh exertions ; but in the exhibits which have been made 

 in the English shows the chain of progress has been unbroken 

 from Carlo to Dash and Palmerston. In the field trials, the Rev. 

 J. C. Macdona has raised its character by producing his Plnnket at 

 Shrewsbury in 1870, after which he was sold to Mr. Purcell Llew- 

 ellyn, and took prizes at Vaynol, Southampton, and Shrewsbury. 

 This dog was very small and bitch-like in appearance, and rather 

 light in color, but his pace was very great, though not perhaps quite 

 equal to that of the L^vcric'v Countess, while his style of going 

 and his attitude on the point were far superior to hers. He wag 



