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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



MR. W. F JEFFERIES' RIVAL STONE BY BRITISH STONE BANZIA STONE. 



Photograph by The Art Portrait Co., Camberwell. 



belonged to the Crib — Kit strain. It will 

 be seen that dogs of the Prisoner strain 

 are well outcrossed, seeing that they com- 

 bine two of the four original strains. The 

 best representatives are Champion Port- 

 land, Klondike, Fugitive, Persephone, Cham- 

 pion Lady Bute, Lord Milner, Stealaway, 

 and Kilburn King. 



The most sensational strain of dogs at 

 the present day is that founded by Mr. 

 Jefferies, as a result of mating his Lucy 

 Loo with Mr. R. G. S. Mann's John of the 



Funnels, who was by Wadsley Jack, and, 

 therefore, of the Crib — Miss Smiff strain. 

 One of the puppies of the resulting litter 

 was later known to the fancy as Champion 

 Rodney Stone, and had the distinction 

 of being the first Bulldog to be sold for 

 £1,000. He was purchased by Mr. R. 

 Croker, of New York. Rodney Stone 

 had, together with his son Buckstone, the 

 remarkable property of stamping his ex- 

 pression and body properties on resulting 

 progeny to several generations. The writer 



