174 THE GREAT BREEDERS MR. LUKEV. 



Thus was Mr. Lukey started as a mastiff fancier. The 

 next specimen he owned was a dog called Lion, imported 

 from the convent of Mt. St. Bernard. Mrs. Lukey presented 

 a varnished water colour life-sized portrait of this dog to my 

 friend Miss Walker ; it shows a fawn with ears cropped 

 nearly to the roots, the skull is very full, and jowl deep. 



In due course Mr. Lukey crossed Yarrow with the smooth 

 Alpine mastiff Couchez, alias Turk, whom I have previously 

 mentioned, and at that time in possession of George White, 

 but subsequently Lord Waldegrave's property. 



I have given these particulars thus fully, as in the 1859 

 edition of Stonehenge, there is an incorrect account of the 

 order of crossing, which is repeated in the 1872 edition of the 

 Dogs of the British Isles, by Stonehenge. 



The note signed T. L. in Stonehenge (1859 edition) states 

 that the foundation bob-tailed bitch came from the Duke of 

 Devonshire's stud ; this is quite possible, as several of the 

 Alpine mastiffs were kept at Chatsworth in years gone by. 



Whether the account was garbled by Mr. Lukey purposely, 

 or accidently, or made up from notes supplied to the editor^ 

 and thus confused, I am not able to say, but the incorrectness 

 of it is patent, when it states Pluto and Turk were the only 

 crosses Mr. Lukey made use of; entirely ignoring the element 

 of " The brindle dog kept by White, who was mated with 

 Yarrow, and from which cross came the mother of Lukey's 

 Bruce ii.'' Finding from Mr. Thompson's account, that 

 there must be some error, I investigated the matter fully, and 

 found that Mr. Lukey had in 1849 told Mr. Thompson exactly 

 the same particulars as he told me the first time I met him. 



