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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 II. 
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 II. 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. 
