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where the heather grows and blooms, can recall no 

 more of the brilliant history of their favorites nor retail 

 recollections of old days, great men and shows or 

 epoch-making sires with finer grace or larger wealth 

 of fit vocabulary! In these excursions into the lives 

 and work of the masters who have founded and 

 carried forward our modern breeds, as a raconteur 

 of incidents and "accidents by flood and field" in the 

 realm of animal breeding, it must be said that since 

 the death of the lamented RICHARD GIBSON peace 

 be to dear old "Dick"! ROBERT OGILVIE stands alone. 

 But we are still aboard that train for Madison. 

 Mr. LEONARD had already carried out another im- 

 portant enterprise in behalf of American stock- 

 breeding; no more nor less than the erection of a 

 building at the Yards in which various national 

 pedigree registry associations should find a home, 

 rent free, and a convention hall for members' meet- 

 ings. We talked of this enthusiastically for a time, 

 and then came the grand idea ! A club room? Yes, 

 but what sort ? Primarily, of course, a place for the 

 daily comfort of those in business at the Yards, but 

 why not extend the proposition in such way as to 

 make it a real haven of rest, a boon and blessing 

 beyond compare, to those who shall come from far 

 and near to see the great show, or participate in 



