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Kirklees keepers. In 1823 Crabtree mated. Mrs. Brewer's 

 Bet with Tiger, the property of Chas. Waterton, the natur- 

 alist, then living at Walton Hall, near Sandel. 



This Tiger was procured in Ireland, he was a red fawn 

 upstanding animal, cropped eared, and bob tailed, and 

 standing over 34 inches at shoulder, according to Crabtree's 

 own measuring, and in Crabtree's opinion he had much 01 

 the boarhound in his appearance, but he knew nothing of the 

 dog's pedigree or antecedents, and it is very possible he was 

 a descendant of some of the Great Danes, kept by Lord 

 Altamont, and erroneously designated Irish Wolfhounds by 

 some. 



However from Waterton' s Tiger and Mrs. Brewer's Bet 

 among others was Venus, a fawn, who Crabtree sent to his 

 brother Henry, who was then keeper for Sir E. Dodsworth, 

 Bart., of Newland Park, near Normanton, Yorkshire. Another 

 puppy, also a yellow fawn called Tiny, was kept by a Mrs. 

 Scott. 



Henry Crabtree's (or as she is sometimes styled Sir E. 

 Dodsworth's) Venus was crossed with Lion, a fawn coloured 

 dog, the property of the Wynn family of Nostal Priory. This 

 Lion was as I have already mentioned of Commissioner 

 Thompson's strain. 



John Crabtree had a puppy back from this cross, and named 

 it either Venus or Duchess, his memory would never serve 

 him to remember which, but she was a fawn coloured animal. 

 Mrs. Scott's Tiny (all yellow fawn without any white) was 

 crossed with Gibson's Nero (a dog regularly used on the 

 Kirklees estate for keeper's work) and from this cross John 

 kept a puppy, known as Sir Geo. Armitage's Old Tiger, a 



