22 Modern Dogs. 



Other fine dogs that were not underhung were 

 Mr. C. Bathurst's Peveril, Mr. Hanbury's Rajah, 

 Sir T. Fermor Hesketh's Nero, Mr. Ralph 

 Yeardsley's Anlaf, a son of Mr. M. B. Wynn's 

 Monarch, and later Mr. Dickenson's Lion and 

 Mrs. Rawlinson's Hector, with many others that 

 could be mentioned, and with so much good stuff to 

 breed from, the wonder is that the defects alluded to 

 hive not died out rather than increased. Then there 

 is no getting away from the fact that the more any 

 of the modern mastiffs resemble the bulldog in 

 head, the greater probability that they resemble 

 him in his walk or waddle rather a gait certainly 

 quite out of place in a typical mastiff. 



To my idea, that dog Crown Prince, who was 

 bred by Mr. Woolmore in 1880, has much to answer 

 for, so far as the present defects in the mastiff 

 are concerned. He was a peculiarly coloured fawn 

 dog, known to fanciers as " Dudley-faced " that is, 

 his nose was red, his eyes had a similar inclination, 

 and a yellow redness pervaded his face and muzzle, 

 which to me was always most repellant. Unfor- 

 tunately, his evil marking notwithstanding, this 

 dog attracted the notice of the judges, and by 

 them was awarded the highest honours attainable, 

 because they said his head was so extraordinarily 

 good in its various developments. It was ex- 



