CHAPTER VIII 

 A Gallery of Celebrities 



F OR permission to use the illustrations which accom- 

 pany this chapter I take the opportunity of thanking 

 the owners who have been so kind as to place them at 

 my disposal. 



It is naturally not my intention to institute com- 

 parisons of any kind between the animals which they 

 represent. For my present purpose it is sufficient to say 

 that each one of them, in his day and at his best, earned 

 for himself a distinctive right to rank as a celebrity. 



With the data supplied for his guidance in preceding 

 chapters, the beginner may proceed to criticise and 

 compare their respective merits at his leisure. He will 

 be wise to devote his special attention to a study of their 

 pedigrees, noting the strains to which they owe their 

 ancestry, and tracing them onwards to subsequent 

 developments in succeeding generations. 



For the rest, the illustrations may be allowed to speak 

 for themselves. 



