EARLY DOG SHOWS. 1 99 



Governor appears to have taken after the boarhound type 

 m his progenitor Adam ; he grew eventually to be a taller 

 specimen than his brother Harold, standing 33 inches at 

 shoulder, and weighing 180 Ibs, girthing only 40 inches, 

 measuring 28 round the skull, length of head 15 inches, 

 namely, skull g, muzzle 5^ ; this being at least i inches too 

 long in the muzzle, and as I had these measurements from 

 Mr. Lukey himself, (who admitted the dog's deficiency of 

 girth of chest, and wretched long muzzle) they may be relied 

 upon ; in fact Governor, grand large dog as he was, neverthe- 

 less was unquestionably too long in head and pointed in 

 muzzle, and instead of possessing the short square head of 

 the true English mastiff, he inherited plainly from his sire, 

 the wedge shaped head of the boarhound, Great Dane, and 

 Alpine sheepdog type, and such for the most part was the 

 type of head he begot, throwing large animals, but leggy, and 

 showing too much of the extended figure, approaching nearer 

 the greyhound type. 



Mr. Lukey mated Countess with her own son Governor, 

 and obtained a long headed boarhound-like leggy dog from 

 this alliance, which he named Harold ; this dog was the 

 ancestor of the Shah, but died young, having hung himself. 

 Mr. Lukey had his head stuffed and offered to make me a 

 present of it. 



However among his numerous un satisfactory offspring (for 

 like many other very large dogs he was a decided failure at 

 the stud) Governor begot Rufus, whose mother, Jenny, the 

 property of Mr. Sam Horn of Kettering, was one of the then 

 few remaining old English mastiffs. I asked Mr. Lukey if 

 she had any pedigree, "pedigree" he replied, "she had a 

 pedigree as long as your arm, that the man sent with her, but 



