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included Rev. G. F. Lovell's El Zingaro and Segesta, Mr. 

 Byron's Jonah, Alma, and Hilda, Mr. Arkwright's Ozone and 

 Octavia, Mr. Mudie's Flink, the writer's Jager and Jezebel, and 

 last, but by no means least in importance, Mr. Mudie's Thusnelda. 

 Mr. Lovell's puppies were not sent to the Kennel Club show at 

 the Crystal Palace, but came out at Stratford-on-Avon in October, 

 where El Zingaro was second to the writer's Jager, and in the 

 bitch class Segesta was second to Octavia a nice red bitch with 

 capital loin, but not quite sound ; she was first exhibited by her 

 breeder, Mr. Byron, at Chesterfield, when she obtained only v.h.c. ; 

 but she followed up her Stratford victory by winning for Mr. 

 Arkwright first Bristol and first Alexandra Palace. Jonah and 

 Alma came out at Chesterfield; the latter, a litter sister to Olympia, 

 was spoiled by her bad carriage of ears. 



Hilda, Flink, and Thusnelda all made a first appearance at the 

 Kennel Club show at the Crystal Palace in June, the former, 

 a sister to Jonah and Octavia, won in the puppy class. She had a 

 beautiful type of head and ears, good loin, but had four white feet 

 and a good sized patch of white on her throat and chest. Flink 

 won first in red bitches, a good bitch with a coarse stern, like 

 her sire, Fritz. The black and tan bitch class at this show 

 was described by Mr. Arkwright, who judged them, as " a magni- 

 ficent class ; " and it is a question whether five black and tan 

 bitches so good as Chenda, Beckah, Alma, Dina, and Thusnelda 

 have ever competed together. Beckah came out at Oxford 

 in June, 1878, when she was equal second with Zillah to Major 

 Cooper's Waldmann. She had the much coveted arched loin. 

 Thusnelda was considered by some breeders as being small 

 and light in bone, but she was credited with having won first 

 Hanover, first Munich, first Elms, and first Ulm. She was small 

 by comparison with the others in the class, but dachshunds were 

 undoubtedly being bred too large at this time, and an outcross of 

 a small size of the hound type was very much required, and 

 Thusnelda proved to be the very thing. By the end of the year 

 she had gone from Mr. Mudie's kennel to Mr. Arkwright's, and 



