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somewhat later. Take, for instance, such dogs as 

 King Dick (already alluded to), Crib (known as 

 Turton's Crib, a brindle and white dog of 64lb. 

 weight, and as good an all-round specimen as was 

 ever produced), Mr. P. Eden's Bend Or, Captain 

 Houldsworth's Sir Anthony, Mr. T. Verrinder's 

 Slenderman, Mr. J. H. Joyce's Bacchus, Bumble 

 (known as the penny show dog, because he was 

 first exhibited at a penny show in Birmingham), 

 Mr. Shirley's Sancho Panza, Mr. Oliver's Monarch, 

 Mr. R. J. Hartley's Venom, and many more good, 

 sound, and active bulldogs could be named which 

 flourished within the teens of years prior to about 

 1882. 



Perhaps here it will be well to mention that at the 

 earliest London show classes were provided for Bull- 

 dogs over i81b. weight, and for others under i81b. 

 weight ; sometimes the regulation was under and 

 over 2olb. The classes which included the small- 

 sized dogs, were as a rule very well filled, on an 

 occasion there being over forty dogs and bitches in 

 the one division. These as a rule were typical little 

 animals, thorough bulldogs in every way, but most 

 of them, not all, had more than a tendency to carry 

 their ears erect in ugly fashion. Whether this was 

 the reason they lost their popularity I cannot tell, 

 but gradually these small-sized bulldogs ceased to 



