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fair owners, handsomely dressed as a rule, always 

 looking quite charming, and wearing snow white 

 aprons, enter the ring, carrying their dog in 

 one arm and its highly polished " case house " 

 in the other ; they have also one of their specialty 

 brushes. The case is deposited upon the ground, the 

 little fellow to be exhibited is placed upon the top of 

 it, and, until the judge is looking around, final 

 touches are carefully given the toilet. The exhibit 

 is then allowed to trot about, sometimes in a lead, 

 sometimes without one. The judge now picks up 

 the dog in his hands and examines it carefully, even 

 to the separation of the coat down the back ; then 

 it is allowed another run, and if the class be a big 

 one and troublesome the exhibitress carries the dog 

 under her arm, or replaces him on the top of his case. 

 Then in due course the awards are made, and it 

 is seldom that we hear any grumbling. The com- 

 petitors are eventually taken back to their benches 

 and, all being right, the hair on the head, which had 

 been " let down," is replaited and retied, the chamois 

 socks are replaced on the hind legs, and the little 

 competitor is once more safely ensconced in his 

 box, which may be is now bedecked with cherry- 

 coloured ribbons or elaborately curtained with choice 

 lace. 



Actual measurements go for not very much, but 



