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above gentlemen for the position and excellence it 

 holds at the present time. 



Some of them were dealers, others were amateurs ; 

 but all worked with the same object in view, and, 

 I should say, have attained their end. Jacob 

 Lamphier at one time had the lead, and, at any rate, 

 he made his mark by possessing two such good 

 dogs as King Dick and Romanic, the latter pur- 

 chased by Mr. Lloyd Price for ^150 an enormous 

 sum then for a bulldog, as it is now. Unfortunately, 

 Mr. Price was not so successful as he deserved, for, 

 after winning first prize at Birmingham in 1865, on 

 his journey to the next show poor Romanie was 

 found smothered in the guard's van. F. Lamphier's 

 Crib (brindled), Jesse Oswell's Dan (a white dog, 

 particularly handsome for a bulldog), Mr. John 

 Henshall's Duke (another white dog, bred by the 

 Duke of Hamilton), Mr. R. Fulton's Falstaff, Mr. 

 Lloyd Price's Michael the Archangel (another white 

 dog, and historical in his way because eaten during 

 the siege of Paris in 1871), Mr. Clement Butler's 

 Stead, Mr. Henshall's Juno, Mr. F. Lamphier's Meg 

 and Rush, Mr. G. A. Dawes' Maggie Lauder, Mr. 

 Verrinder's Poll, were about the best specimens that 

 flourished from twenty to twenty-five years ago, and 

 there are few modern bulldogs, if any, which do not 

 contain the strain of one or another of them. 



