S92 FIELD AND TERN. 



Cumberland Plate and sundries, but Cora beat her 

 easily in a trial at Airdrie. The latter was tried to 

 be better than the Heir of Linne, but before tlie 

 money could be got on for the Goodwood Nursery 

 the secret got wind, and the maiket was forestalled. 

 The ewe flock, which all wear bells, began from some 

 spotted Cheviot ewes, with a touch of Shetland in 

 them, and they have been crossed with a Leicester 

 and a Southdown. Still, the primitive magpie 

 colours come out, and only grow a little lighter with 

 exposure to the weather. It wants no dyeing, and 

 some of the lads have had coats made from it. Carle 

 Time and Talc Tent were at the kennels, and so w^ere 

 Cut and Dry (^' one of the old style who never leaves 

 his hare^^), Fly with her sv/eet head. Black Agnes and 

 her Carl Time puppies, and What Care I, the dam of 

 Cut and Dry. Mr. Sharpe runs very little in public, 

 except there is a meeting in the neighbourhood, and, 

 unlike their forefathers, who were stripped at Mal- 

 leny and the Eoman Camp in the brave days of old, 

 his greyhounds are not named after the heroes of 

 the Border minstrelsy. 



Monarch, by Mr. (now Lord) Gibson Craig^s Count 

 from Lord Torphichen^s Fly, was Mr. Sharpens first 

 great dog, and he it was who began "the family fawn.*'' 

 '^ He was square and thick, and with less fire to his 

 game than either Hughie Graham or Mercury.^' 

 His blood is in all the Scottish kennels, as it goe^ 

 through Driver to Drift, the second for the Caledonian 

 Picture, and, curiously enough, Violet, the winner^s 



