CHAPTER XX. 

 NOTED -MASTIFFS. 



'Tis sweet to bear tbe watcb-dogs honest bark 



Bay deep nioutbed welcome as we draw near borne. 



Hyroii's l)on Jan a. 



MR. F. ll.AM'.i KY'S Duchess, one year and three nioiillis old. 

 in June. 1862, took the First Prize at Holborn, and figured 

 in the Illustrated Sporting News, and also in the same for 

 May 3ist, 1862. Duehess weighed 102 ibs only at 15 months 

 old. (My Champion Peeress, First Prize, Birmingham, 1872. 

 just 10 years after, weighed at 15 months old 112 Ibs. 



Duehess also figured in the Illustrated Sporting News ot 

 Dec. f)th, iS02; the cut may be accepted as accurate, for 

 there was a striking likeness between it and that of Mr. 

 If anbury's grand skulled Rajah 2333. The cut shows a very 

 broad, short headed, fine coated, muscular specimen, with a 

 very fine stern, carried down ; her ears however appear 

 somewhat large: this is an important piece of mastiff history, 

 as it shows that the type Rajah was of. was inherited from 

 Duchess quite as much as from Nell iv., who was supposed 

 by some to transmit the so erroneously called bulldog 

 type. 



A Lymc II all mastiff belonging to Mrs. Colville was 

 figured with Duchess in 1862, in the Illustrated Sporting 

 News, and it shows him to have been long in head and 

 hound)- in ear : these portraits were draun at the Birmingham 

 Show, where Duchess carried off the First Prize, the Evmc 

 Hall representative having to be content with second place. 



