[86 THE GREAT BREEDERS MR. LUKKY AND MK. THOMPSON. 



Countess revived for a time Mr. Lukey's drooping laurels, 

 but was beaten by Duchess 2365. a daughter of Bill George's 

 Tiger, and therefore Mr. Thompson's strain ; and the decided 

 superiority of the Quaker and Tiger blood, has, and will, 

 maintain itself, in spiteof their being somewhat small perhaps 

 in some peoples" opinion, but as Mr. Thompson rightly laid 

 down, the true English mastiff is not so large a dog. Thirty 

 inches at shoulder being the maximum of the height of the 

 breed, and Mr. Lukey's original strain attaining sometimes 

 as much as ^3 inches, were not, strictly speaking, English 

 mastiffs at all. 



In 1859, Mr. Thompson bred Fan ist. a winner ot several 

 prizes ; also the famous Quaker 2330, which he sold as a 

 puppy to Mr. Henry Cautley of Bramley, near Leeds. In 

 1861, Quaker carried all before him at the Birmingham Show, 

 and a portrait of him appeared in the Illustrated London 

 News in December, 1861, being one among a group of prize 

 dogs, drawn by H. Weir, who very cleverly, by way of con- 

 trast, placed the prize bloodhound by his side. Instructive 

 talent of this sort should be paid its due. The drawing 

 shows that Quaker carried his ears partially erect, a charac- 

 teristic of the true old English mastiff as shown in Bewick's 

 cuts. 



Quaker was not only the best mastiff in England of his day, 

 but also perhaps the very best bred specimen then extant, 

 his pedigree tracing back to Bold, and Mr. Thompson's 

 grandfather's mastiffs of about 1800. Air. Cautley, the owner 

 of Quaker, has owned some good specimens of the mastiff, 

 his dogs have not been large, but he bred and selected the 

 true type, and the old Yorkshire breeders generally, have, not 

 been so led away by mere size. 



