Rough-Coated Collie 363 
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 ore 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 ‘vas 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 
