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or from appearance were not mastiffs at all, we can only believe the same of. 

 such dogs as were entirely unknown so far as breeding was concerned, and 

 were only tolerably good-looking dogs." 



Perhaps the best way we can elucidate the slim foundation there is for 

 the claim that the British mastiff is the outgrowth of the old dog that went 

 by that name in the first books appertaining to dogs, or even the mastiff of 

 Bewick and Howitt, is to copy the pedigree of Wallace's Turk as it is given 

 in the first volume of the English studbook, and to tell what is known of the 

 terminals. In this pedigree is embodied all traced connections with the 

 past, and it may be said that the ancestors of dogs from 1870 to date are 

 almost invariably to be found in this pedigree. 



PBDIGRBX OP Miss AGLIONBY'S TURK, BORN 1867. 

 TURK. 



Gamier's. Lukey's Lukey's Ducfies* Tnompson'* Thompsoh's Lord Darnleyk 



Eve. Bmce IL, (Sij t , to Thompson** SaUdin. DucheM. 



|>W* L>ik'e/ 

 uc*L JTeZ 



Akroyd's Thompson** SifG. A 

 Dan, Venus. 



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Lukey't Bti 



(This is the pedigree from "The 

 Book of the Dog," and differs slightly 

 from that of the Stud Book, the only 

 thing of any consequence, however, is 

 the ommission of the dam of Lukey's 

 Bell which the Stud Book gives as 

 Lukey's Countess. 



J,ulccy' Lukey's Lukey's Thompson's Thompson^ Lion. 

 UruceL NeiL Nero. Bruce. Bess. 



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Juno was a bitch owned by Mr. Edward Nichols of London, who seems 

 to have picked up dogs without pedigree to a great extent. When we visited 

 his kennel at Knightsbridge in 1877, when he had several winning dogs, we 

 found the run of his kennel was towards decidedly weak-faced dogs com- 

 pared with what we should now call good mastiffs. If Juno had had any 



