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That the Governor type would and could not hold its own 

 I proved, having given a long sum for Timon, a grandson of 

 Governor, being by Cromwell, by Governor. Timon was a 

 very fine specimen, with a vast but too pointed head, a 

 beautiful coat, and measured and weighed well ; I exhibited 

 him at the Birmingham Show, where he was simply unnoticed. 



The most striking characteristics of the Rajah line have 

 been vast skulls, short heads, fine coats, and good chests and 

 loins, generally deficient in blackness about the ears, and 

 wanting in lip and squareness of muzzle, somewhat light in 

 bone, and of medium size ; the late Pontiff was a very typical 

 representative of the line improved in colouring. 



The immediate descendants of Mr. Nicholl's Quaker, and 

 his Venus, were very houndy, having generally long pointed 

 muzzles, deep hanging flews, long folding leathery ears, very 

 suggestive of a bloodhound cross in one of their immediate 

 ancestors. Miss Hale's Lion, a fine dog in other respects, 

 was very much spoilt by this houndiness. Old Turk inher- 

 ited something of it from his dam, Hilda ; Hilda was full 

 sister to Miss Hale's Lion, and was a long bodied, large 

 bitch, with very poor head, light bone, and was decidedly 

 leggy. Miss Aglionby's Wolf inherited still "more of the 

 houndy type than Turk, and his descendants have been much 

 spoilt by it. 



The only descendants of Weller's Wallace which have come 

 prominently before the public were Druid and Peveril, and 

 the latter proved sterile, as did his nephew, Mr. Norris's 

 Wallace, by Druid. The Druid cross I have never really 

 liked, owing to the deerhound blood in Druid's dam, Mr. 

 Elmsley's fawn bitch, Juno ; but Druid possessed vast size, 



