THE MASTIFF. 147 



chad or even a small dog, one of their most remarkable attributes 

 being their fondness for affording protection. Mr. Lukey, of 

 Morden, Surrey, has a very fine breed of the pure mastiff. We 

 present an engraving of Governor, the finest of his dogs. 



Mr. Lukey began to breed mastiffs rather more than forty years 

 ago, taking a brindled bitch bred by the then Duke of Devonshire 

 as his foundation. Putting her to Lord Waldegrave's celebrated 

 do"- Turk, and her puppies to the Marquis of Hertford's Pluto, he 

 obtained a strain with which he stood for some years almost alone 

 as the celebrated mastiff breeder of the day, without any outcross. 

 At length, fearing deterioration by further in-breedmg, he resorted 

 to Capt. Garnier's kennel for a sire, the produce being that mag- 

 nificent dog Governor, by Capt. Garnier's Lion out of his own 

 Countess, a daughter of his Duchess by his Bruce II., who was by 

 his Bruce I. out of his Nell. Of the breeding of his own Lion, 

 and Lord Waldegrave's Turk, Capt. Garnier writes as follows: 



"Some time ago I bought of Bill George a pair of mastiffs, 

 whose produce, by good luck, afterwards turned out some of the 

 finest specimens cf the breed I ever saw. The dog Adam was one 

 of a pair of Lyme Hall mastiffs, bought by Bill George at Tatter- 

 sail's. He was a different stamp of dog to the present Lyme breed. 

 He stood 30i in. at the shoulder, with length of body and good 

 muscular shoulders and loins, but was just slightly deficient in 

 depth of body and breadth of forehead ; and from the peculiar 

 forward lay of his small ears, and from his produce, I have since 

 suspected a remote dash of boarhound in him. The bitch was ob- 

 tained by Bill George from a dealer in Leadenhall Market. Noth- 

 ing was known of her pedigree, but I am as convinced of its purity 

 as I am doubtful of that of the dog. There was nothing striking 

 about her. She was old, with shoulders a trifle flat. She had a grey 

 muzzle, but withal stood 29 in, at the shoulder, and had a broad 

 round head, good loin, and deep length}"- frame. From crossing 

 these dogs with various strains I was easily able to analyze their 

 produce, and I found in them two distinct types — one due to the 

 dog, very tall, but a little short in the body and high on the leg^ 

 while their heads were slightly deficient in breadth ; the other due 



