CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE NOTED BREEDERS MR. LUKEY AND 

 MR. THOMPSON. 



^Nature, in her productions slow, aspires 

 By just degrees to reach perfections height. 



SoincrviUc The Chanc, Lib i. 



MR. THOMPSON, by blending his own strain with that of Mr. 

 Lukey, produced Saladin, a dark brindle dog of great power, 

 of whom lie wrote, " Saladin, (the sire of Mr. Cautley's 

 "Quaker,) was axlog of great muscular power and activity, 

 " with immense strength of jaw, and although standing not 

 " more than 31 inches at shoulder, could jump a stone wall 

 "often or twelve feet with ease. He has been seen to take 

 " the dead body of a black-faced sheep in his mouth, and 

 "jump a wall of four feet with it. Dan. his sire, was a dog 

 ''of equal activity, but not so large." 



Mr. Lukey, on the other hand, produced nothing of note 

 between 1849 and 1859, except Wallace, a blend between his 

 own and Mr. Thompson's strain. So much had Mr. Lukey's 

 strain fallen off, that when asked to furnisli a specimen for 

 illustration in the 1859 edition of Stonehenge, he had to name 

 Wallace as the best representative of the breed, a dog deriv- 

 ing much of his character from Mr. Thompson's strain, and 

 then the property of Mr. Weller of Derby, who informed me 

 that Wallace was not a large dog, being at the outside not 

 more than 28 inches at the shoulder ; thus, although very 

 symmetrical, considerably smaller than Mr. Lukey's old type, 



