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Unfortunately the information obtained from these tables is of no 

 use to the collie breeder, for it is not till many years after the work has been 

 done that it is possible to trace back through the many lines that which 

 is the governing one. This is what we meant when, in speaking of the 

 large number of puppies sired by Eclipse and Rutland, we said they pro- 

 duced nothing in the male line that continued to produce. Even more 

 remarkable than the failure of these two in this respect are Mr. Megson's 

 great dogs Ormskirk Emerald and Southport Perfection. They sired 

 thousands of puppies, yet we only reach each one of them through one son 

 when it comes to the highest-quality dogs. All we can hope to do is to 

 breed good-looking dogs, but which one of the many crack dogs of the day 

 will. eventually be entitled to be incorporated in the line of producing sires 

 we will not know for ten or maybe twenty years, and it need not worry us 

 at the present time. 



As it is not the intention to go into the question of breeding, the tables 

 are introduced at this point to illustrate what a wonderful dog Christopher 

 was. He was sired by Metchley Wonder when the latter was eleven months 

 old, and in turn got his two great sons when he was fourteen months old; 

 both of these sons, out of different dams, being born on the same day. 

 Christopher's influence in America was nil, but in extenuation of his leaving 

 no worthy posterity here it should be stated that he had no brood bitches 

 worth the name as producers, and it is only in quite recent years that 

 we have gradually worked up to the position of having soundly bred 

 bitches; with most gratifying results in the way of vastly improved puppy 

 classes. 



Another good dog imported by Mr. Harrison was The Squire, a very 

 shapely dog, with a good head, but as he never had enough coat when in 

 England he naturally failed to improve in that essential when here. The 

 one dog that might be cited in opposition to our statement that Scotilla 

 sired nothing wonderful was Roslyn Wilkes, who came out in 1890 and 

 was very successful for some time. He was bred by Mr. Pierpont Morgan 

 out of Bertha, the dam of Bendigo, but was shown by Mr. Harrison and 

 was decidedly the best American bred of his day, but his head did not last. 

 Other good dogs owned at Chestnut Hill were Maney Trefoil and Welles- 

 bourne Charlie, which with Christopher and a number of bitches passed 

 into the possession of Mr. Jarrett when Mr. Harrison retired. Maney 

 Trefoil was sold to a Denver lady, and The Squire and a few others were 



