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since any reason to change, is practically as fol- 

 lows: 



For pups from two to three months old, from 

 fifty to seventy-five dollars. When six months 

 old, from seventy-five to a hundred: From six 

 months to maturity, from one hundred to two 

 hundred. These prices are, of course, for the 

 ordinary all-around good dogs. With dogs that 

 approximate perfection, and which only come in 

 the same proportion as giants and dwarfs do In 

 the human race (I believe the proportion is one 

 in five thousand), and the advent of which 

 would surprise the average kennel man as much 

 as if the President had sent him a special invi- 

 tation to dine with him at the White House, the 

 price is problematical, and is negotiated solely 

 by the demand for such a wonder by a compara- 

 tively few buyers. 



I think Boston terriers as a breed occupy the 

 same position amongst dogs as the hunter and 

 carriage horse does amongst horses. Each are 

 more or less a luxury. A well matched pair of 

 horses of good all-round action, of desirable 

 color and perfect manners and suitable age will 

 sell in the Eastern cities (I am not sufficiently 

 acquainted with the other sections of the country 

 to know values there) at from eight hundred to 

 two thousand dollars, but with a pair of carriage 

 horses able to win on the tan bark, the price will 



