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imported Bruno, a lemon-and- white dog, and Mr. Charles 

 Porter, of Roslyn, L. I., the liver-and- white bitch Fanny. 



In 1874, Mr. B. W. Jenkins, of Baltimore, imported a 

 liver-and- white dog, Sancho, by Walker's Dan, out of Fair- 

 head's Juno (Hamlet-Belle), who won the Tolly gold medal, 

 at Watertown, in 1875. In the latter year, Messrs. Seeley 

 and Stevens, of New York, imported the liver, gray, and 

 white dog Rap, by Lord Carlisle's Rap, out of Bess, by 

 Hon. Nore Hill's Blunder, out of Shaw's Helen; Rap by 

 Lord Downe's Shot, out of Wilson's Staffa. 



Besides these imported dogs, excellent strains were bred 

 about the same time by Mr. Wisner Murray, of Gfoshen, 

 N. Y.; A. C. Wardell, of Newton, N. J. (now of Kansas); 

 James Cassady and Charles H. Winfield, of New Jersey; 

 Mr. Colt, of Hartford; Dwight L. Roberts and Capt. J. P. 

 White, of Savannah; Edward H. Lathrop, of Springfield, 

 Mass. ; and Gr. A. Strong and E. A. Kelsey, of West Meri- 

 den, Conn. 



The first effort at a bench show in this country was made 

 at the meeting of the Illinois State Sportsmen' s Associa- 

 tion in Chicago, June 2, 1874. The second was held at 

 Oswego, N. Y., June 22, 1874, by the New York State 

 Sportsmen's Association. The first real success in that 

 direction was achieved at Mineola, L. L, October 7, 1874. 

 Other exhibitions soon followed, at Memphis, Detroit, 

 Springfield, Watertown, Paris, Ky., and at Manchester, 

 N. H. 



The first bench show in New York was held in 1877, at 

 which R. J. Lloyd Price, of England, exhibited Snapshot 

 in the champion class, and won with him, the Columbus, 

 Ohio, Kennel dub winning in the same class for bitches 

 with Belle. The exhibition of 1878, in the same city, 

 brought out the St. Louis Kennel Club's champion Slea- 

 ford, and in bitches, E. Orgill's Romp and Rose. Many 

 fine dogs appeared subsequently at this series of exhibi- 

 tions, among them being Faust, Croxteth, Tramp, Lord 

 Dufferin, Rush, Rapp (W. R. Hobart's), Tom (John S. 

 Wise), Donald (A. H. Moore's), King Bow, Water Lily, 



