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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



that could scarcely be surpassed in hound 

 points and beauty, but merit at the Peter- 

 borough Show of 1906 was so great as to 

 make it very difficult to get first prizes. 

 So one saw the Trinity Foot beating Mrs. 

 Price's in an unentered class, and there 

 was no beating the Halstead Place for the 

 best couple of bitches — Chorus and Rachel 

 getting a first, perhaps pretty easily. Rachel, 



Palace Cup as the best Beagle in the show, 

 and with his kennel companions helped to 

 take the cup for the best three couples. 

 Mrs. Price showed successfully an old 

 favourite, Fulmen, in the single dog class, 

 but he is a well-known champion. Sir F. 

 FitzWygram won with Dorothy against 

 nineteen competitors, and one that caught 

 the attention of everyone was a beautiful 



GROUP OF THE MARQUIS OF LINLITHGOW'S BEAGLES. 

 Photograph by C. Rcid, Wishaw. 



who was bred by the Chauston, also got the 

 champion cup as the best bitch in the show- 



The Surbiton, of which Mr. A. G. Allen 

 Turner is the master, must be very good 

 to have got second in the open class here 

 with Passion and Nimble. It was a great 

 show for the President's Cup, for the best 

 three couples, and here again the Halstead 

 Place came out first with Searcher and 

 Statesman (brothers), Ranter and Rachel 

 (brother and sister), and Chorus and Cobnut. 

 The three couples might have been taken 

 as the exact type of what Beagles ought to 

 be. 



The show at the Crystal Palace was 

 thought even better than at Peterborough, 

 as there were no fewer than nineteen packs 

 entered. The Halstead Searcher was. as 

 usual, to the fore, as he took the Crystal 



little lemon pied bitch called Primrose, 

 exhibited by Mr. E. F. Goff, the master of 

 the Wooddale, this little lady coming out first 

 in her class. To make the competition all 

 the stronger at the Crystal Palace the Marquis 

 of Linlithgow sent down a beautiful lot 

 from Scotland, and although his lordship 

 was not overdone with success right through 

 the show, a little gem of his called Dutchie 

 fairly " brought down the house." 



What must have struck anyone who saw 

 these Beagle shows of 1906 at Peterborough 

 and the Crystal Palace, was the obvious 

 unanimity of breeders in the matter of 

 type. There were no outsiders, if one may 

 use the term ; all were as much like Searcher, 

 Fulmen, Primrose, Dorothy, and Dutchie 

 as possible, without being quite their equals, 

 and this speaks volumes for the breed, as 



