. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . has beeneffected in the variety during re-cent years, but there are particulardogs to - day who are decidedlybetter than any that existed adozen years or more ago, whensuch celebrities as True, Old Sam,King Koffee, Ben Wonder, Doden Lad have taken their places in the historyof the breed. Later there have been suchfamous specimens as Gomersal Surprise andGomersal Tip Top, Good Lad, Naughty Boy,Tiverton Beauty II. a
. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . has beeneffected in the variety during re-cent years, but there are particulardogs to - day who are decidedlybetter than any that existed adozen years or more ago, whensuch celebrities as True, Old Sam,King Koffee, Ben Wonder, Doden Lad have taken their places in the historyof the breed. Later there have been suchfamous specimens as Gomersal Surprise andGomersal Tip Top, Good Lad, Naughty Boy,Tiverton Beauty II. and III., MillingtonPrincess, Belle Vue Nina, in the writersopinion one of the very best, and her im-mortal conqueror Preston Sultan, a dogwhose quality of coat, bone, substance, head,eye and perfect make and shape have neverbeen surpassed. Gomersal MayFly, Preston Wonder, Belle VueSurprise, Miss Wonder, anotherbeautifully shaped bitch, and MissQuality, are later additions to thescroll of fame. The prefix Gom-ersal belongs to Messrs. Masonand Wood, Tiverton to Darby, Belle Vue to , and Berkeley to Clarkson. Henry Skip worth,Lord Melville, Duerdin Dutton,. Ben, Lad, and Una, were prominent, and thereis no doubt that the curly coats attainedshow form in advance of the flat-coatedvariety. Among the early specimens inaddition to those just mentioned TivertonLady was a notably beautiful bitch, as wereBarkwith Lady, Black Gipsy, and Gomer-sal Lady ; and the names of GomersalTipster, Gomersal Beauty, Berkeley BlackBoy, Berkeley Gipsy, and Tiverton Best R. FISHS CH. MISS WONDER PRESTON SULTAN PRESTON LADY. A. R. Fish, R. Chapman, and J. Donaldare names of breeders and owners whichhave frequently appeared in the prize listsof recent years. The coat of the curly Retriever plays avery important part in his value and per-sonality. There are many kinds of coat,but the only true and proper one is theclose fitting nigger curl, of which eachknot is solid and inseparable.
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