Some Pedigrees. 95 



Jockey was a smooth dog, with a wonderfully thick, 

 short, weatherproof jacket, like long plush, and was a 

 yellow sable. Now, who would ever have thought of 

 producing pigeon-blue from such an incongruity ? Even 

 now Dr. Ker says he despairs of maintaining this lovely 

 hue, as all his puppies 'are born' black or sable ; now and 

 again one of the blacks turning blue when about six 

 months old. Sir Cavendish was jet black as a whelp, so 

 was Dame Leah.' " Dame' Judith was a lovely blue- 

 blotting paper colour at six months ; but as a whelp she 

 was of that peculiar rusty-black colour "only to be seen in 

 the tall hat of an undertaker, or of a superannuated post- 

 lad. She was sired by that undefeated champion, Sir Guy, 

 out of the dark blue-mirl, Dame Dorothy. 



Sir Guy's grandsire was a short-coated, mouse-coloured 

 dog, in fact, a dun, bred by a Mr. Brinkley, somewhere 

 down on the Sudbourne Marshes, and his grand-dam was 

 a bitch of the same colour belonging to Shepherd Mills of 

 Eyke. Very large dogs these were much bigger than 

 anything of the present day, in fact, Sir Guy's sire, Mill's 

 Bob, would make almost two of him with regard to size 

 and general massiveness. He could catch a hare, so it was 

 not all lumber ; he was 25^ in. at the shoulder, on very 

 short legs, was a natural bob-tail, of a peculiar grizzled- 

 dun colour, with very small rose ears. He died in the 

 Fernyhurst Kennels at a great age, and to the last 

 was more than a match for any dog his size ; in fact, 

 old Mills gave him away because he had killed so 

 many dogs in his neighbourhood. So much for Bob, a 

 comparatively smooth dog, with a more weatherproof 

 jacket than half the overcoated winners on the show 

 bench to-day. 



