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ents were lemon and white Japanese spaniels, and as few breeders had seen 

 either Lamb or Moss the rumour was generally accepted. 



"With the advent of Tragedy and his son Comedy the era of heads 

 began. Both were colossal in stature, Tragedy being by a dog in Scar- 

 borough so huge that he was called Tichborne, after the claimant. His 

 (Tragedy's) dam, Judy, was by Click and from Mrs. Lee's Gipsey, while 

 Comedy was by Tragedy from Cloudy, who, by the bye, was an exception- 

 ally good bitch, and should never have been beaten in the ring. 



" I should say the best pugs I have seen are Miss Jacquet's Turn Turn, 

 Mr. Booth's Comedy, Mrs. Foster's Jennie, Mrs. Britain's Little Count 

 and Little Countess; Mrs. Maule's Little Duke, Miss Houldsworth's 

 Dowager and Countess, and my mother's Hebe. 



" I cannot leave the pug subject without expressing regret that pop- 

 ular feeling tends to hold the breed in a contemptuous cum ridiculous light. 

 No breed in its specimens has such distinct individuality. In character 

 the pug is brimful of intelligence; it is consequential to a degree; is willing 

 to take its own part; does not possess an atom of shyness, and in the old 

 days when I was in swaddling clothes and my parents lived in Derby- 

 shire, the men used to take Tootie and her sons and daughters out ratting 

 with ferrets. Being close and short coated, pugs do not require half the 

 attention called for by the more popular variety of toys, such as Pomeran- 

 ians, Spaniels and Yorkshire terriers, while they are more robust in con- 

 stitution and of a more independent spirit." 



The information as to the Willoughby pugs is entirely new so far as we 

 had any knowledge, and it rather dissipates the prevailing impression that 

 certainly existed thirty years ago that the Willoughby pugs were an old and 

 well established strain. We recall the name of the female Blondin, but 

 nothing as to the date she was performing in England. Blondin, after 

 whom she was named, was there in 1858, so that if we say the Willoughby 

 pugs date back to 1860, that will be near enough. This is borne out by 

 what the stud book shows as to the introduction of the Willoughby blood 

 into outside channels, for that appears to have first taken place about 1867, 

 though one or two older dogs are said to have been of Lord Willoughby's 

 strain. When it comes down to names, however, this seems to be the oldest 

 pedigree we have "Mungo, born 1868, bred by Lord Willoughby, by his 

 Ruby out of his Cora, out of his Mina. Ruby by Romeo out of Romah, 

 out of Lady Shaftesbury's Cassy." This is a peculiar pedigree, but even 



