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and cheese or chop or joint and too often perhaps 

 the generous mug of "brown October ale" the grand 

 debate would start. It might take wide range, but it 

 would inevitably turn to horses, dogs and bulls or 

 "tups," with many a wager placed for subsequent 

 adjudication. Out of these tap-room sessions grew 

 the early shows where results were measured and 

 experiences exchanged; and as the product of this or 

 that procedure became of interest to the whole com- 

 munity, notes were made and the foundations of 

 pedigree registration at length established. Why not 

 commemorate such scenes and thus remind ourselves 

 occasionally of the debt we owe to those who gave 

 us our good breeds and founded the trial by jury in 

 the open showyard ? Such was the reasoning of 

 ARTHUR G. LEONARD, to whom the west is indebted for 

 this truly artistic memorial structure. 



Facing as it does the home of the International, 

 connected as it is by steps and corridors with the 

 SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB itself, and serving daily 

 the patrons of the greatest live-stock market of the 

 world, the Stock Yard Inn is America's one enduring 

 monument to these grand old men and the times in 

 which they lived, placed in the one spot, above all 

 others on the continent, where such a work should 

 stand. 



