a rule, train them for field trial work. This has been noticed to such an extent as to draw forth the remark that the field trial dog and the show dog are two distinct articles. I am of opinion that the absence of the show dog from the public field arises from the fact that he has not been afforded training opportunities, and is not from natural unfitness. Of course, there are good and bad dogs of all strains, and it is not every dog, even from the best of parents that ever worked at a trial, that will come forward creditably in a similar position, and I am fully certain that, did Mr. Cockerton, already alluded to, enter his dogs for field trial work as Mr. Llewellin and others do their's, the former would give quite as good an account of themselves as the others..

Monk of Furness, one of show strain and a bench champion, was as good a dog in the field as ever ran, and at times, says Nicholson, had done better work than any other of his kennel. He performed creditably at the National Trials, though it was not one of his best days. He, however, was the sire to Mr. Nicholson's Master Sam, Mr. F. Lowe's little bitch, Nun of Kippen, and Mr. T. Lauder's Sweep the Green, whose public work was quite as good as any one need wish to see; and a bitch that Mr. Cockerton has now-one of the very best

of her day in appearance, Cash in Hand-can gallop almost as fast as a greyhound, possesses a fine nose and good natural hunting capabilities. If ever I saw a dog likely to do well at field trials. when properly trained Cash was that one. of Furness was sold to go to Canada for 230/.

Monk

Few of these show dogs are, as I have hinted, put into proper hands to bring out their working powers, hence, what may be called, the cross-bred dogs do best. Of these, the liver and whites appear to excel all others, especially some of those that had Baron Doveridge for sire. He was bred by Lord Waterpark, was by Fred V. from Rue by Drake-Rival; Fred, by Blue Prince-Dicken's Belle; thus combining two distinct strains.

These are by no means handsome dogs, but they never appear to tire, have good noses, and are always on the look out for game. Mr. Lonsdale's Woodhill Bruce and his sister Woodhill Beta I have seen run trials that could not well have been beaten ; and both Mr. F. Lowe and Mr. F. Warde have had liver and white dogs of the same strains that did excellent work, Trip of Kippen not only running well as a puppy, but when an old dog it took some luck and a better animal to beat him. These dogs are, however, difficult to train, for as puppies they are very fast and terribly wild and head

strong. When once finished it is not easy to find their superiors.

At the National Trials in 1892 Colonel Cotes ran a puppy called Dash, which was the result of the first cross between a Gordon Setter of Lord Cawdor's strain and an English setter. It performed very well, indeed; so well, in fact, as to win the stake, and make one believe that a combination of the strains would lead to working animals that would probably have no superior. This one had a fine nose, carried his head well, quartered his ground beautifully, and appeared to be persevering throughout, his natural qualities being good; and I take it that in the latter most important attributes "Stonehenge" considered the early Laveracks deficient. I do not think those that I have seen run from Mr. Llewellin's kennels of recent years are to be found fault with either as regards their pace or other capabilities. I think it was in 1889 that a nine months' old puppy of Mr. Llewellin's was entered at the National Trials, when he ran over a rough fallow, and by no means a level one either, in such a perfect, natural style, and at such a pace that I with others thought the stake at his mercy. However some trivial fault later on put him out of court. Some years before this there was a much lauded setter called Ranger, whose pace and nose were

such as to make him almost invincible. Unfortunately, I never saw him run, and have heard so many different opinions as to his merits that I can say very little upon the subject. He was an uncertain dog, but, this notwithstanding, he must be included with the dogs of his time-such as Count Wind'em, Phantom, Drake, Dash II., Belle; with Countess and Nellie, who, at the Vaynol trials, in 1872, ran so well as a brace that they were given by the judges the full hundred points-as near the head of his race, and it has been said of him that when in the humour he was "" as steady and dependable as a steam locomotive." During Ranger's career from 1873 to 1877 he won seven stakes and special prizes, and, if at times his work was not quite perfect, he, in the opinion of the judges, usually made up for some little delinquency by finding and standing birds in an extraordinary and brilliant manner. Ranger was a plain-looking -indeed, an ugly little dog, white with black and slight tan marks. He was bred by Mr. Macdona from his Judy by Paul Hackett's Rake-Calver's Countess; his sire being Quince II. by Jones' Quince I.-Lort's Dip.

An interesting trial would, no doubt, have been fought could he have been brought against Dr. Wood's lemon and white Fred, who proved himself

one of the best field trial dogs of more recent years. Unfortunately, he had not a long reign, flourishing, as our history would say, between 189192, both dates inclusive. Bred by Mr. T. Webber, of Falmouth, in August, 1886, Fred was by Prince W.—Moll W.; Prince by Sam IV.—Moll III.; Sam by Young Rollick-Nell; but Fred's dam does not appear in the stud books. He was a lemon and white ticked dog, well made and symmetrical, but scarcely up to high-class show form in appearance, his head being more characteristic of the Irish rather than of the English setter. Fred made his mark as a Field Trial dog, and perhaps on all points had never many superiors; although, on his first appearance in 1890, he was put out of the aged competition at the National Trials because he failed to back, and Mr. Llewellin's Satin Bondhu won the stake. The latter, if not quite so fast as Fred, had shown a better nose by finding birds the scent of which Dr. Wood's dog failed to hit, though the latter was well in front at the time. As is the case with almost all fast dogs, this failing to back was, at any rate in the early portion of his career, Fred's chief defect. He won four stakes outright, the special cup on two occasions, once he was placed third only, when without injustice he should have been second, and on two other occasions he owed defeat to his