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that her coat was somewhat woolly, and there was very little 

 doubt that she was of the Alpine mastiff blood, 'and crossing 

 such unallied blood would fully account for any and all 

 abnormal redundancies, as supernumary teeth, claws, etc. 



Bill George himself, like many modern London breeders, 

 was somewhat cramped for room, and having at times a 

 number of dogs on the ground, his home reared puppies had 

 not sufficient liberty and exercise, the result being that his 

 mastiff breeding operations were anything but satisfactory I 

 believe. 



Wolf, Phillis, Rums, Sampson, Bruin, and Branch were 

 very uniform in type. The most striking characteristics of 

 the Tiger line were magnificent heads, jet black ears and 

 muzzles, generally stone fawn with the dark clouded or sooty 

 back, showing the brindle blood of their ancestry, ears medium 

 size, but rather inclined to be too large and thick, coat hard 

 and fine. 



Cautley's Quaker was .nearly allied to Bill George's Tiger; 

 his male descendants have sunk into insignificance, owing 

 to being crossed without judgment with inferior blood, but 

 his grandson, Old King, took after him very much in type ; 

 his son, my King 2nd, (sire of Norah 2nd, ist Birmingham, 

 1876) resembled Quaker still more. I sold the dog to Mr. 

 Hawett of Wigan, Lancashire, and he wrote me as follows, 

 2gl:h Dec., 1876 : 



" Dear Sir, When I showed my King ii. at Blackburn, 

 " Thompson and Douglas judged, when Mr. Thompson saw 

 " King ii., he asked my groom at once where does that dog 

 " come from ?' He afterwards told me in the hotel that he 

 " thought it was old Quaker coming into the ring ; he pointed 

 " out to me his ears, and the beauty of his hind quarters, etc. 



