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time a two hundred pound weight dog had not been 

 produced. Satan himself, a very heavy dog, would 

 not be more than, perhaps, 1501b. at most. 



Coming a little later, we find that in June, 1885, 

 a dog show, devoted entirely to Great Danes, was 

 held at the Ranelagh Club Grounds, near London. 

 This was just at the time when the animal was reach- 

 ing the height of his popularity here, and a noble 

 show the sixty hounds, benched under the lime trees 

 in those historic grounds, made. Never has such a 

 collection of the variety been seen since in our island* 

 and, need I say, never such a one previously. The 

 great fawn dog, Cedric the Saxon, was there, perfect 

 in symmetry, and a large dog; carefully measured, 

 he stood 33:^ inches at the shoulder. With Captain 

 Graham, I took the heights of several of these big 

 dogs on that occasion, and it was extraordinary 

 how the thirty-five and thirty-six inch animals 

 dwindled down, some of them nearly half a foot at 

 a time. 



The tallest and heaviest hounds we made a care- 

 ful note of were Mr. Reginald Herbert's Leal, who 

 stood 33f inches at the shoulders, and weighed 

 1821b. ; M. Riego's brindled dog, Cid Campeador, 

 who stood exactly 33-J^ inches, and his weight was 

 1751b. This couple were the tallest dogs of their 

 race I had up to that time seen, but, at Brighton 



