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retained are well-known winners Starlight, the subject of 

 our illustration, and My Queen. 



Starlight has been bred three times, and is the dam of 

 Don Pedro, who has won second in open and first in puppy 

 class at Toledo, in 1889, and first in open and first in puppy 

 class at Toronto, in the same year. When only nine months 

 old, Sensation, the sire of Don Pedro, was a twenty-pound 

 dog. Don Pedro weighed fifty -three pounds at one year of 

 age. I merely mention this instance to show that one can 

 not breed for size with certainty, as small dogs are liable to 

 get large ones, and vice versa. I next bred her to Hinks, 

 and have two six-month-old puppies, the best I ever saw, 

 and if nothing unforeseen happens, they will do themselves 

 and their progenitors great credit. 



In the rapid advanc.es of show dogs to popularity, few 

 breeds have made the great strides that the Bull Terrier 

 has. This advance has undoubtedly been brought about 

 largely by the importation into this country of some of the 

 finest specimens obtainable in England. Among the most 

 prominent dogs of this breed that have been imported to 

 this country, I would mention the following: Grand Duke 

 and Little Maggie, owned by Messrs. R. and W. Living- 

 stone; Dutch, Jr., owned by T. R. Varrick; Champion 

 Victoria, owned by E. S. Porter; Champion Cairo, Grab- 

 ber, Bonnie Princess, Enterprise, and Spotless Prince, 

 owned by W. F. Hobbie; Champion Jubilee, owned by W. 

 F. Comstock; Champion Count, Champion Maggie May, 

 Lady in White, Lady Tarquin, Little Dorrit, The Earl, 

 King Patrick, Queen Bendigo, Hinks, Lady Melville, and 

 Bendigo, owned by the writer.* 



Anyone at all familiar with Bull Terriers, in England or 

 America, will readily see that this breed of dogs has had 



* Among other breeders and owners of good Bull Terriers, may be men- 

 tioned: C. Albert Stevens, Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J.; W. F. Hobbie, 54 

 Exchange place, New York City; Retnor Kennels, 4 West Sixty-sixth street, 

 New York City; Andrew Gerlach, Rochester, N. Y.; Eugene D. Hays, 13 

 East Sixty-first street, New York City; E. D. Morgan, Hempstead, Long Island; 

 W. L. and H. A. Harris, North Wilmington, Mass.; Campbell & Blake, 



