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score of dogs, especially if the quality were pretty even. 

 It is even unlikely that the same two would select the 

 same animal for leading honours. It is possible they 

 might do this, but highly improbable. Fancy goes for a 

 great deal, and we never yet had a couple of dogs, or 

 other animals, brought together which were absolutely 

 alike. They may resemble each other, have a family 

 appearance possibly, but exact counterparts of each other 

 never. 



This difference of opinion is occasionally noted, but as 

 many judges in the ring lean towards the decisions of 

 each other just in the same way more mighty magnates 

 do in the Law Courts and elsewhere, it seems less common 

 than otherwise would be the case. One judge may prefer 

 one type, another judge another. Take the last show of 

 the Fox Terrier Club for instance ; here there were, 

 especially in the groups of the smooths, two or three 

 classes of uniform excellence that for open dogs and 

 that for bitches, to wit. In the former all the animals 

 were pretty well known. Connoisseurs knew what each 

 had done, how each looked, and at the same time they 

 were aware of the generally accepted opinion as to the 

 respective merits of each. Still, it would have been hard 

 to find another judge who would have placed them as 

 Mr. Dale did on that occasion. Yet, no one could say 

 that his decisions were at all wrong, and, as a matter 

 of fact, he made his awards particularly well. Such being 

 the case here, where all the exhibitors were well known, 

 how would it have been could such a class have been 

 placed before a judge, not one animal in which had won 

 a prize or ever been shown ? There would have been 

 some funny comments on the result, and it is probable 



