30 Modern Dogs. 



"Of late years, Beaufort stands out as the sire 

 of dogs of good all-round excellence. Among the 

 first of his stock was Wodan, so remarkable for 

 his extreme shortness of face and great length of 

 body ; then we know Beaufort as sire of Lord 

 Stafford, Sir Stafford, Lady Florida, Seabreeze, 

 Isolde, Ayrshire, and others, as well as of many in 

 the United States, such as Ilford Lady Coleus, 

 Lady Phyllis, Beaufort's Black Prince, &c. 



" A noteworthy dog was Mr. R. Cook's Ilford 

 Chancellor, very noticeable for an extraordinary 

 development of dew-lap, a disfigurement which 

 probably did more to bring about his defeats by 

 Beaufort than anything else. Mr. E. Nichols' 

 Victor Hugo, another dog of great excellence, 

 and pretty much free from most of the modern bad 

 qualities, is illustrated in ' Dogs of the British Isles. 5 

 He took a high position, without ever attaining 

 the title of ( Champion,' and from him we get 

 Jubilee Beauty and Mr. Z. Walker's Stentor. The 

 Rev. H. K. E. van Doorne's Jack Thyr, another 

 mastiff who gained a high reputation on the show 

 bench, though a terribly bad mover when out at 

 exercise, has, however, given us nothing better 

 than Mr. Cook's, now Mr. Higgs', Ilford County 

 Member and Capt. Piddocke's Don Juan II. The 

 career of the last-named was verv short, and the 



