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glad to buy this kind of stock at three or four 

 times this price. 



I attended the last show in Boston with a 

 number of orders in my pocket, but failed to 

 discover any dogs I picked out possessing the 

 quality described at anything less than a good 

 stiff price, for Boston terriers with the "hall 

 mark" of quality have been, are, and, I believe, 

 always will be, as staple in value as diamonds. 



The number of letters we have received from 

 all over the country, particularly from the West, 

 complaining of the skin games played upon 

 them by fake kennels and dealers, would make 

 an angel weep, and make one almost regret that 

 one ever knew a Boston. If the same ingenuity, 

 skill and patience employed in the getting up of 

 these fake advertisements had been devoted to 

 the breeding of the dog, this class of advertising 

 gentry (?) would have produced something fit 

 to sell. It is stated on the best of authority that 

 in some cases nothing was shipped for money 

 received. 



In spite of this vast number of unscrupulous 

 bleeders and dealers scattered abroad, I think 

 the chances for reliable kennels was never so 

 good as now in the history of the breed. Cream 

 will always rise, and right dealing, whether in 

 dogs or diamonds, will ever meet with their just 

 returns. Remember that one never forgets being 



