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him to be, but he could not have been a low dog, though we do not remember 

 him as any way out of the ordinary. Mr. Mason brought out with his 

 kennel of dogs the winner in 1881, a dog called Noble, quite a large winner 

 in England; and he was also a little long on the leg, but very good in head — 

 better than Donald a good deal. At that time Mr. John P. Barnard was 

 showing a good many dogs in the bulldog classes, from which some Boston- 

 terrier stock subsequently came, but they were very poor bulldogs. He 

 got a second to Noble in 188 1, with Bonnie Boy, a son of the English dog 

 Slenderman. This was a long-faced dog, plain in skull. Mr. Mortimer 

 was an exhibitor that year, showing a dog called Doctor, after which he had 

 a white dog called Blister. The Livingston Brothers, of New York, then 

 imported one or two moderate dogs, but no dogs of class were brought over 

 by any Americans till Colonel John E. Thayer, then at Harvard, took 

 hold of the breed. He bought Blister and two or three that had been 

 shown here, but these were not good enough, and we got Robinson Crusoe 

 for him from George Raper, and Britomartis from Ronald S. Barlow; the 

 former a fallow smut and the latter a brindle and decidedly the best bulldog 

 seen here up to that time, though she was rather long in the back. She 

 had won a number of prizes in England and did well here, winning first 

 at New York from 1885 until 1890, when she was retired and Mr. Thayer 

 severed his connection with the breed, she being his best and last living 

 imported bulldog. 



The formation of the Bulldog Club in 1890 was a great help to the 

 breed, which had already received many additions in the way of new ex- 

 hibitors and new dogs. Mr. John H. Matthews, of New York; the late 

 E. Sheffield Porter, of New Haven; Mr. R. B. Sawyer, of Milwaukee; the 

 Retnor Kennels of New York, and Mr. C. D. Cugle, of Hartford, bought 

 dogs, and four of them gave cups to the club, which were competed for at 

 New York show in 1891. Mr. Sawyer had meanwhile gone abroad, and 

 his grand dog, Harper, was now shown by Mr. F. W. Sackett and won the 

 Parke Challenge Cup from Merry Monarch. Handsome Dan, the Yale 

 bulldog, was here a winner in the novice class, and in 1892 he won third 

 in the open class. This year the Bulldog Club obtained a much fuller 

 classification and a division by weight, and forty dogs were entered, dupli- 

 cates being very few. Mr. Woodward's kennel at Chicago, which had been 

 a prominent winner at Canadian shows in 1892 with Bo'swain, won the 

 challenge class prize, but was beaten by the bitch Saleni for the Parke Cup, 



