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Mike." He was a rather light brindle and white, 

 even mouthed, short tailed dog, weighing about 

 twenty-five pounds, very typical, but what im- 

 pressed me was his large, full eye, the first I 

 had ever seen, and which we see so often occur- 

 ring in his descendants. I owned a grandson 

 of his named "Gus," 48136, who was almost a 

 reproduction of him, with eyes fully as large. 

 Unfortunately he jumped out of a third-story 

 window in my kennels and permanently ended 

 his usefulness. Chief among the direct descend- 

 ants from Hooper's Judge were the noted stud 

 dogs, Ben Butler, Hall's Max, O'Brien's Ross, 

 Hook's Punch, Trimount King, McMullen's 

 Boxer, and Ben, Goode's Ned, and Bixby's Tony 

 Boy. The two dogs that impressed me the most 

 in that group were Max, a fairly good sized, 

 beautiful dispositioned dog that could almost 

 talk, belonging to Dr. Hall, then a house doctor 

 at the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Charles street. 

 He was used, I am told, a great deal in the stud, 

 and sired a great many more puppies than the 

 doctor ever knew of. Bixby's Tony Boy was the 

 other. I had a very handsome bitch by him out of 

 a Torrey's Ned bitch, and liked her so much that 

 I offered Mr. Bixby, I believe, $700 for Tony, 

 only to be told that a colored gentleman (who 

 evidently knew a good thing when he saw it) 

 had offered him $200 more. 



