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second with Puss, positions which the same dogs 

 had occupied at Ashburnham Hall, Chelsea, a few 

 months earlier. However, at the latter place the 

 class had been divided for dogs over lolb. in weight, 

 and for dogs under lolb. in weight, and a some- 

 what similar arrangement as to size came to be 

 generally adopted a little later on. 



Thus early we find considerable confusion with 

 regard to these bull terriers, solely from the per- 

 sistence with which their owners stuck to the names 

 of " Madman " and " Puss." Already several bearing 

 both names were shown, and won prizes too, and, 

 although they came to be entered in the first volume 

 of the " Kennel Club Stud Book," no reliance can be 

 placed upon many of the pedigrees published therein. 

 Mr. Joe Walker showed a Puss in 1864, so did 

 Mr. Hinks, and the Stud Book, published in 1874, 

 contains no fewer than twelve bull terriers called 

 " Madman," many of which, I have no doubt, were 

 one and the same animal ; and the same volume 

 contains five bitches named " Puss." To separate 

 one from the other, and to verify all the pedigrees, 

 which, as I have said, in many cases were extremely 

 doubtful, would be impossible now. 



The dog Madman (2739), which once belonged- to 

 the writer, was of a strain distinct from that found in 

 Birmingham, being by a very good old dog of Mr. 



