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"In a great number of cases where Crown Prince 

 was probably used to suitable bitches, he proved 

 himself the progenitor of some of our very best 

 mastiffs best, not only because of successes on 

 the show bench, but because they exhibited his 

 good qualities with few of his bad ones. This was 

 strikingly shown in the case of Dr. Turner's The 

 Lady Isabel, in Mr. T. W. Allen's Montgomery, 

 in Capt. J. L. Piddocke's Toozie, and others. 



u One cannot pick up a catalogue of even four 

 or five years ago without noticing how the number 

 of entries in the mastiff classes have fallen off. 

 That this is in any way due to decadence in the 

 mastiff's popularity I do not for a moment believe. 

 Even in so short a period dog shows have 

 enormously increased in number, with the result 

 that exhibitors can now pick their shows, with 

 the almost inevitable result that the classes do not 

 fill so well, although the total number of mastiffs 

 exhibited has possibly decreased but very little. 

 Then the general body of owners still required 

 education in the requisite points, and, pending this, 

 did not hesitate to show their dogs, adding, if not 

 to the quality, to the quantity, and the "tail" of 

 the classes. 



" Latterly, whether our mastiffs, as a breed, be 

 better or worse than in the days of Lukey and his 



