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pedigree and antecedents were unknown to Mr. Thompson, 

 who mated her with a dog named Tiger, belonging to a 

 Captain Fenton, and from the alliance obtained a puppy he 

 named " Hector," who he stated was the grandest headed 

 specimen he ever bred. 



It was singular enough that Mr. Thompson should procure 

 Hector's dam from Bill George, and then give their lineal 

 descendant Tiger (so noted for his grand head) to Bill George, 

 but Mr. Thompson remarked that George had always behaved 

 very straightforwardly in all his dealings with him, (the 

 character he seems to have obtained from all who dealt with 

 him) and not caring to keep Tiger himself, the dog being 

 somewhat crippled and crooked in his legs, through having 

 fallen into a tan pit, and getting nearly drowned as a puppy, 

 he made George a present of him. 



Soon after purchasing -'Juno," Mr. Thompson procured 

 Dorah frqrn John Crabtree, she was born in 1826 for certain, 

 but was then getting aged ; he mated her also with Tiger, 

 belonging to a Captain Fenton, then quartered in Halifax for 

 a short time. This Tiger was a fawn, with very black ears, 

 and a most typical animal according to the account of Mr. 

 Thompson, who writing to Bill George October igth, 1870, 

 (being a reply to the first application Bill George had ever 

 made to him for the pedigree of Tiger, so little were pedigrees 

 thought of or required until I made a stir into such particulars 

 with Mr. Hambury, I having written to George to ask how 

 the clog was bred) stated that ik Captain Fenton's dog Tiger 

 was one of the largest and finest coated lie ever saw." 



This Tiger of Captain Fenton's had full and peculiar eyes, 

 which I elicited quite accidentally one day about 1874, when 



