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be regulated by the comparatively few people 

 who have sufficient money to spare to purchase 

 this fashionable luxury, and ten times the amount 

 paid for the first mentioned pair would be a rea- 

 sonable price to pay for the prize winners. I 

 think the winners of the blue in the Bostons 

 would fetch a relative sum. 



The important factor of the cost of produc- 

 tion in the case of the dog necessarily enters into 

 the selling price. Good Bostons are as hard to 

 raise as first class hunters, and a correspondingly 

 large sum has to be obtained to meet expenses, to 

 say nothing of profit, but in the writer's experi- 

 ence the best dog or horse sells the readiest. Do 

 not be misled by the remark "that a dog is worth 

 all he will bring." Generally speaking, this is 

 sound logic, but not always. Many dogs have 

 been sold for very little by people not cognizant 

 of their value, but this in no way changed the 

 intrinsic worth of the dog. On the other hand, 

 many dogs have been disposed of at many times 

 their real value, but this transaction did not 

 enhance their worth in the slightest degree. A 

 gold dollar is worth one hundred cents whether 

 changed for fifty cents or five hundred. An 

 article of intrinsic value never changes. Our 

 advice to all who have dogs for sale (or any 

 other article, in fact), ask what you know is a 

 good, honest, fair value, and although you may 



