igS EARLY DOG SHOWS. 



Mr. Lukey in possession of this grand animal failed to mate 

 her judiciously, being carried away with the vulgar error for 

 great size ; he crossed her with Lion, a dog bred in America, 

 a longish headed and somewhat leggy animal, with little 

 pretention to true mastiff character, showing according to his 

 breeder's own admission, unmistakeable signs of the boar- 

 hound type. The infusion of this mongrel blood nearly 

 ruined Mr. Lukey's dogs, causing him to lose ground, which 

 he never thoroughly recovered ; Mr. E. Hanbury wresting 

 the premier position from him a position that clever breeder 

 has honestly held, and well merited, off and on ever since. 



There were three dogs from the Lion and Countess cross, 

 namely, Mr. Ashton's Lion, Mr. Lukey's Governor and 

 Harold, the latter, a white faced specimen, taking after his 

 mother in type, and a reversion to Mr. Thompson's strain. 

 " The breeder of Governor's sire " admits that this dog was 

 the finest male specimen he had ever met with, and therefore 

 superior to anything of his own breeding, and was perhaps, 

 except Quaker, Tiger, and Countess, the best specimen of the 

 English mastiff he had up to that time ever set eyes upon. 



Mr. Gamier worked up a drawing of Countess and Lion, 

 with their offspring Harold and Lukey's noted Governor ; of 

 this group photos were taken, and there is also an engraving 

 of Governor in the 1872 edition of Stonehenge, but it is more 

 of an artist's ideal than a faithful portrait, as far as the head 

 goes, giving the idea of a much squarer muzzled, shorter 

 headed dog, than the photo taken from life shows. Garmer's 

 portrait of Governor in the foregoing group was worked up 

 from the photo from life, and appears a very truthful and 

 useful copy of the original, and can be relied on as showing 

 the real type of his head. 



