532 Modern Dogs. 



That we have not the latter in this country can 

 with truth be stated, and I think the majority of the 

 best dogs with us now will quite equal the standard 

 of the best as laid down by Germany's great 

 authority. 



So far as my judgment goes, English breeders 

 like Mr. W. Arkwright, Mr. M. Wootten, Mr. A. W. 

 Byron, Mr. H. Jones, Mr. A. O. Mudie, Mr. H. A. 

 Walker, Captain and Mrs. Barry, and others, have 

 produced dachshunds quite equal to any that have 

 appeared of late years at the leading Continental 

 exhibitions, although, naturally, more specimens are 

 bred there than with us. 



I have been favoured with the following critical 

 summary and history of most of the best dogs that 

 have appeared in the show ring in this country, and, 

 being compiled by one of our most earnest admirers 

 of the breed, Mr. Harry Jones, no further guarantee 

 of its value need be given. He says : 



The first dachshunds that are recorded 'as winning prizes in 

 England were Mr. H. Corbet's Carl and Grete ; when at Birming- 

 ham in 1866, they were each awarded a prize in the " Extra class 

 for any known breed of sporting dogs." And in these " extra " 

 classes, all dachshunds had to compete until the show held at the 

 Crystal Palace in June, 1873, when, for the first time, a class was 

 given for the breed, and the winners on this occasion were Mr.. 

 Hodge's Erdmann, ist; Rev. G. F. Lovell's Satan, 2nd ; and Hon. 

 Gerald Lascelles' Schnaps, 3rd; but from 1866 to 1873, dachs- 

 hunds, whenever exhibited, were invariably winners in these 



