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resorted to in order to deceive the unwary were reduced to a 

 minimum. To-day the Bulldog enjoys a popularity undreamt of 

 by the old-time fancier, and prices that in the sixties would have 

 been laughed to scorn, had they been suggested as within the range 

 of probability, have been touched. Nor in these days, as in times 

 gone by, is the breed kept solely by men : women have espoused 

 its cause with a zeal that would have done credit to the most 

 enthusiastic of its early supporters, and they have, moreover, met 

 with a considerable share of success. 



Of the pioneers of the breed as a show dog mentioned must 

 be made of Mr. Jacob Lamphier (whose King Dick is regarded, 

 and rightfully, as one of the chief pillars of the Stud Book), Mr. F. 

 Lamphier, Mr. Tom Turton, Mr. G. W. Richards, Mr. Rockstro, 

 Mr. J. W. Berrie, Mr. S. Wickens. Later came Mr. Robert Fulton 

 (whose name perhaps is more familiar now as a pigeon breeder), 

 Mr. James Hinks, Mr. C. H. Layton, Mr. Jack Henshall, Mr. Bill 

 George, Mr. F. Redmond, Mr. S. E. Shirley, Mr. Rust, Mr. D. S. 

 Oliver, Mr. Harding Cox, Mr. E. W. Jaquet, Mr. W. H. Ford, 

 Mr. S. Woodiwiss, Mr. W. H. Sprague, Mr. Jack Ellis, Mr. George 

 Raper, Mr. Beresford Hope, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Cyril Jackson, 

 Mr. Pybus Sellon, Mr. W. J. Pegg, Mr. C. S. Chaundler, Mr. 

 R. G. S. Mann, and a host of others. To enumerate all those who 

 have played their parts in the regeneration of the breed would 

 occupy too great a space, particularly as such information is acces- 

 sible in a permanent form in the very excellent Stud Books 

 associated with the names of Messrs. Bowers and Jackson, in the 

 Kennel Club Stud Books, and in the monumental monograph of 

 the breed written by Mr. Edgar Farman. Similarly, no good 

 "purpose would be served by referring by name to the dogs that 

 in their different periods flourished as typical representatives. 



In connection with the Bulldog, the old print of Crib and Rosa 

 is so often spoken of that brief reference to it is called for, more 

 especially as until the last few years it was allowed to stand in the 

 descriptions of the breed. The dogs depicted in the print were 

 in their day supposed to embody all that was typical. Now, however 

 representative the two famous Bulldogs were in the day when 

 Mr. Sam Wickens (" Philo Kuon") drew up his description, they 

 certainly cannot truthfully be regarded as typical of the Bulldog 

 of the last few decades. 



As to whether the fancier has improved the breed constitutionally 

 is a moot point. Type has certainly been made more uniform ; 

 but this in many cases has been at the expense of other qualities. 

 The Bulldog of old was a far more active dog than his modern 

 prototype, and no one who witnessed the ten-mile walking match in 

 which the very typical Dockleaf and King Orry figured is likely to for- 

 get the fiasco in which it ended so far as the former was concerned. 



