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can exhibitors after Dr. Cryer's Dolly had made her mark, and Lord Nelson 

 and Miss Whitney's Young Toby were by him. Toby was by Click out of 

 Mrs. Mayhew's Hebe, by Crusoe out of Phyllis a part Willoughby bitch. 

 Notwithstanding we had some close-up descendants of this inbred Pekin 

 strain of pug, not one of the entire number that were exhibited showed any 

 indication of the build of Lamb and Moss, the long and low type which Mr. 

 Mayhew says they were and which we see in most of the long-haired Peki- 

 nese which have come direct from China to England or here. Dr. Ivy, 

 father of the then little boy after whom Dr. Cryer named his best pro- 

 duction, very kindly sent us from Shanghai photographs of what the owner 

 named Pekin pugs, and Dr. Ivy said the dog was a high class specimen. 

 This we submitted to Mr. Mayhew to see how the dog might conform to 

 his recollection of Lamb and Moss, and he replied as follows : "There is 

 no more resemblance to Lamb or Moss than to any pug of the present day. 

 Neither Lamb, Moss nor Click had a white hair, nor had any of the lat- 

 ter's progeny. The dog is apparently a smooth Pekinese, just as there 

 are smooth coated specimens in the rough coated varieties of terriers. 

 Lamb, Moss and Click were as profuse coated -as are the descendants of a 

 certain line of smooth fox terriers. A very large proportion of Click's sons 

 and daughters, however, had the orthodox length of coat, nor was it trans- 

 mitted in subsequent generations. " 



The first pug of quality shown in this country was Dr. Cryer's Roderick, 

 a dog of nice size, handicapped by very straight hind legs to the extent of 

 being double jointed. It was this defect that enabled Mrs. Pue's larger dog 

 George to defeat him in the majority of cases when they met. Both of 

 these dogs were inferior to little Banjo, which was one of the kennel of dogs 

 brought over in 1881 by Mr. Mason, but which unfortunately was smothered 

 while in transit to London, Ont., show that fall. He was the sire of Lovat, 

 one of the very best show dogs and sires of his day in England. Of the 

 bitches of that time the best by a good margin was Mr. Knight's EfHe which 

 won in the open class at New York in 1882, beating Dr. Cryer's Dolly, Effie 

 afterwards won three championships at New York, but unfortunately she 

 was a non-breeder. The next good pug was the dog which was here known 

 as Joe, but whose proper name was Zulu II, the change of name being the 

 result of an error on the part of the young man sent over from England in 

 charge of Miss Lee's dogs. The real Joe was sold as Zulu II before the 

 dogs went to Pittsburgh show and Zulu II was shown as Joe and got second 



