52 Modern Dogs. 



sums of money on some of our best St. Bernards, 

 but whether the climate of the States does not suit 

 them, or the living is different, or whatever be the 

 cause, these imported dogs never do well in their 

 new home, where many have died long before their 

 time ought to have come. Another of our best 

 specimens, Princess Florence, an immense bitch, 

 has been amongst their latest purchases, and it is to 

 be hoped that she will do more good to her strain 

 than have others of her race. Sir Bedivere weighed 

 2i2lb., was 33 J inches high at the shoulder, but 

 big as he was and all round the better dog, he 

 never appeared to so fill the eye as the giant of 

 his race as Plinlimmon was in the habit of doing. 



Whilst alluding to big dogs, mention may be 

 made of Mr. Shillcock's Lord Bute, said to be the 

 one giant of his breed. He might stand a quarter 

 of an inch higher than Plinlimmon, but he was not 

 nearly so heavy a dog, and withal but a moderate 

 specimen. He, too, went to America, with a stated 

 weight of about 2Oolb., which, on arrival at his 

 destination, came to be increased about ten per 

 cent. He has, however, a very excellent son in 

 Young Bute, once owned by Mr. S. W. Smith, of 

 Leeds. This dog likewise went to America, his 

 purchaser being Mr. W. Reick, of New York, 

 who had, at the time of writing this, the finest 



