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He was certainly a wonderful puppy, and as a collie was far ahead of any 

 dog at the show. This we say with the full knowledge that Scotilla won 

 many prizes, but we never considered him a good, true-type collie. Dublin 

 Scot was a large, strong dog, also deficient in character and lacking in the 

 attractiveness seen in Scotilla, who was undoubtedly a very taking dog, 

 but he was not collie in expression, was light in bone and not right behind. 

 To show our opinion on Scotilla's rank as a collie, we will repeat a story 

 we have previously put in print. On one occasion, being asked to attend 

 to a service by Dublin Scot, or failing that to make our own selection of a 

 dog at the kennels, we went up from Germantown to Chestnut Hill, and, 

 there being a failure to get Scot, we had to choose. Mr. Jarrett said that 

 he supposed we would take Scotilla, but we asked to have Charleroi H. 

 brought out as well, and we selected the latter. To prove that our opinion 

 was not out of the way at all we can add that when Mr. Harrison purchased 

 Christopher in England he sent Dublin Scot and Charleroi over to Mr. 

 Stretch, that being part of the deal. Mr. Stretch at once got rid of Scot 

 and kept Charleroi, eventually selling him to Mr. J. A. Long, of St. Louis. 

 "His fault was slovenly ear carriage, but outside of that he was a good collie 

 and the best in the Chestnut Hill Kennels till Christopher was imported. 



It has been customary to accord to Charlemagne every honour that 

 can be given a dog for individuality and for power to improve his breed, 

 but it is to Christopher that collies owe their great improvement when one 

 resorts to pedigrees as proof. Professor Bohannan two years ago made 

 a most thorough investigation into the subject of collie breeding, and the 

 results he arrived at were that with the exception of the dogs of twenty-five 

 years ago, which figured in his tables of great sires, these great sires were 

 the produce of dogs averaging two years and two months of age, and that a- 

 very large number were from sires under eighteen months of age. 



To more thoroughly understand the age table, that of the ancestral 

 tree of the leading collie strains must be studied, and it is even more 

 remarkable in what it sets forth than the age table. This table 

 was made two years ago, and the only alteration that Professor 

 Bohannan would be likely to make would be the lopping off of the 

 Donovan H. line coming through Balgreggie Hope, and we doubt if 

 he could name any standard successor of Ellwyn Astrologer, so that 

 if these two were eliminated we would be reduced to the lines tracing 

 to Christopher. 



