7<x> The Dog Book 



as it stands it is the exceptionally long one in the first volume of the stud 

 book, which was anything but errorless as to names, breeding or reference 

 numbers. The pedigree of Cloudy, the great brood bitch Mr. Mayhew 

 refers to is given as by Click out of Topsy, by Lamb out of Moss, whereas 

 that is the Click extension. 



Mr. Morrison was as old a breeder as Mrs. Mayhew, probably older 

 and as his hostelry was a house of call for many persons his pugs became 

 well known. Outside of these West end of London breeders, there were 

 many throughout England who owned, exhibited and bred pugs, but pedi- 

 gree was very little thought of and very few pugs were equipped with one. 

 We may take it however that the very great majority of the pugs, prior to 

 the Willoughby and the Pekin introductions were descendants of Dutch 

 pugs, or of pugs which came from China some time during the seventeenth 

 century. In the Bloomfield Moore collection of pottery in Centennial 

 Hall, Philadelphia, we saw a good many years ago a cropped pug with two 

 puppies in Delft ware, which was dated as seventeenth century production, 

 but on making enquiry regarding it, for the purpose of illustration, investi- 

 gation was made and it was found that the date given was wrong and it is 

 not believed to be over one hundred years old. 



The usefulness of the Click blood seems to have been in the produc- 

 tion of successful dams, for outside of Odin and Toby, the sire of Dr. Cryer's 

 Dolly it is hardly possible to trace back to Click in the male line. On the 

 other hand we find in that very hard-to-get and useful book Dr. Cryer pub- 

 lished in 1891, "Prize Pugs," his extensions of pedigrees of the leading 

 winning dogs of America up to that time show that fifty per cent, of them, 

 and those including nearly all the best dogs, had this Click cross. Bob Ivy, 

 Dr. Cryer's best production had three crosses, being inbred to Dolly on the 

 sire's side, and Dolly was by Toby, and on the dam's side going back to Vic, 

 by Click out of Leech's or Lock's Judy. This Vic was also the dam of 

 Turn Turn II, a remarkably good dog by Max. Imported Othello also 

 traces to Vic. From the Click-Gypsey cross we find Judy, dam of Tragedy, 

 and from the Click-Topsy came Cloudy, who was dam of Comedy, also of 

 Dowager the dam of Queen Rose and Duchess of Connaught. Queen 

 Rose was dam of Champion Loris. Cloudy was also dam of Lady Flora, 

 whose daughter Lady Cloudy was the dam of Kash, a prominent winner 

 here in 1889 and 1890. 



There was quite a run on the get of the dog Toby on the part of Ameri- 



