CHAPTER X. 



SALES. 



Every person who has bred Bostons for any 

 length of time knows that a good dog sells him- 

 self. I do not imagine there is practically any 

 part of this great country where a typical dog, 

 of proper color and markings and all right in 

 every respect, fails to meet a prospective buyer, 

 and yet, of course, there are certain places 

 where an A i dog, like an ideal saddle or car- 

 riage horse meets with a readier sale, at a far 

 greater price than others. New York city, in 

 particular, and all the larger cities of the coun- 

 try where there are large accumulations of wealth, 

 offer the best markets for the greatest numbers 

 of this aristocratic member of the dog fraternity, 

 and from my own personal knowledge the larger 

 cities of the countries adjacent to the United 

 States furnish nearly as good a market, at a 

 somewhat reduced price. Were the quarantines 

 removed in the mother country, which England 

 no doubt has found absolutely necessary, it 

 would not surprise me in the least to see an 



