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nevertheless did all that could be expected of anything but a phenomenal 

 lightweight. Mr. Austin subsequently sold Chibiados and was appointed 

 to judge the breed the next year. Chibiados was entered, and he defeated 

 Rodney Stone and Ivel Doctor, two he had not met before, the latter getting 

 the reserve in winners. Mr. Austin was hit at pretty hard, but the grumblers 

 had little reason for all they said. Rodney Stone was a very sick dog, and 

 Mr. Austin was judging the dog as he saw him in the ring and not upon his 

 past record. Rodney Stone was also defeated by Ivel Doctor at the following 

 show held at Orange, N. J., but he did beat Chibiados in the lightweight 

 class. Mr. LeCato was judge, and his reversal of the New York positions 

 was in accordance with much of the ringside criticism. 



When it came to New York once more, in 1904, a well-known and 

 thoroughly competent English exhibitor and judge was engaged specially 

 for bulldogs and bull terriers. This was Mr. W. J. Pegg, whose kennel 

 name of Woodcote is widely known owing to the high class of the dogs 

 he has shown with that prefix. Under Mr. Pegg Chibiados won in his 

 class and defeated every dog he had been placed over by Mr. Austin, except 

 Ivel Doctor, who got first in winners, with a new dog, Sir Lancelot, as reserve. 

 Fashion, under Mr. Pegg, went back to V.H.C., and he has seldom got 

 high honours except under American judges. Among other high-class 

 dogs that Chibiados beat on this occasion was Rolyat, one of the very best- 

 headed dogs we have ever had; and Rodney Smasher, now unfortunately 

 added to the number of bulldogs suffocated when travelling in the closed 

 boxes fancy says shall alone be provided for bulldogs. At a very early 

 age Rodney Smasher won his championship, and at this show won the 

 Waldorf-Astoria Cup for the best American-bred dog. Another defeated dog 

 was Persimmon, and Chibiados beat him for the Club Specials. Bearing 

 in mind that this is a lightweight dog, and as "a good big 'un will always 

 beat a good little 'un," it must be admitted that Chibiados is not only a 

 good dog, but that Mr. Austin was amply justified in considering him a 

 dog of class and placing him where he did on the occasion when he was so 

 much criticised. 



There is no question as to the assured future of the bulldog in this 

 country, for there are more individual exhibitors in the fancy than in most 

 breeds, and bulldog fanciers are not so ephemeral as are many others, but 

 last, unless there is some urgent necessity for their giving them up. Those 

 who once take to the breed seem to imbibe something of the holding-on 



