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was the bitch Meta, in whelp to Eclipse, and she was followed by Nesta, in 
a similar condition. From Meta came Ben Nevis, bought as a puppy by 
Mr. Shotwell, and Lady of the Lake. Ben Nevis was a large, sable dog, 
rather smutty in colour, and in that respect Lady of the Lake was much 
better. Nesta came to our kennels, and in this litter there was one beautiful 
bitch, Clipsetta, for which we refused the high offer, for those days, of 
$200, only to have her killed when a year old by two bob-tails who, starting 
a fight between themselves, turned on Clipsetta and never left her till she 
was lifeless. Thinking to show our confidence in the man at whose kennels 
this happened, we sent him Nesta, and one of the bob-tails broke out of her 
own kennel of inch boards, got into Nesta’s, and killed her. The bob-tails. 
cost $25 for the two. 
A sister to Clipsetta, named Mavis, was the dam of a very fine young 
dog named Glenlivat, which also met with misfortune, being run over 
by a train, so that bad luck did not run singly in our effort to perpetuate 
this line of collies. There were two Eclipse-Nesta litters, as she was sent 
back to England after her first litter and bred to Eclipse again and from 
the second litter came the champions Clipper and Glengarry. Mr. Van 
Schaick also got a son of Eclipse and old Flurry, named Strephon, and 
to this dog Mavis threw Glenlivat, which Mr. Mason criticised as 
“undoubtedly one of the grandest young dogs we have seen.” 
All of these that were by Eclipse or his descendants were sable-and- 
white dogs, and they completely settled the pretensions of all the black 
and tans. At the Newark, N. J., show of 1886 the Meta and Nesta litters 
accounted for most of the prizes, and they did well at New York also, where 
the Hempstead farm dogs won many prizes; it being this kennel’s last 
big winning, for Mr. Harrison then took up the breed and swept all before 
him. At this time we had a few of the get of Rutland, who was Eclipse’s 
great rival in England, but this strain did not last with us. They were 
very heavily coated dogs, but spongy, and in place of repelling the rain 
they became water soaked, the coat separating along the back as in a 
Yorkshire terrier. There was also a lack of size in many of them, and 
Rutland himself was not a large dog, though our opportunity for seeing 
him was too brief and unsatisfactory as to surroundings to warrant 
any definite description beyond saying that he was fine in head and 
gave that property to some of his puppies shown in this country, 
but they did not compare favourably with the Eclipse collies; and it 
