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since the introduction of the Dane in this country, 

 the new club evidently popularising the Dane as a 

 show dog. 



Perhaps the best all-round Great Dane we have 

 had here was the brindled bitch Vendetta, first 

 exhibited by Mr. Reginald Herbert, and sold by him 

 to Mr. Craven for a large sum. She was not a par- 

 ticularly big bitch, though perhaps taller and heavier 

 than she looked by reason of her lovely symmetry. 

 She stood 31^ inches at the shoulder and weighed 

 1401b. ; but in general form and correctness of type 

 of head, without lippiness or hound-like appearance, 

 she was pretty nearly perfect. Windle Princess (Mr. 

 Coop's) is another beautiful bitch, and again not 

 a very big one. Mr. E. H. Adcock's Ivanhoe, a richly 

 coloured brindle dog, has repeatedly and deservedly 

 won prizes at our leading shows. Mr. Wilbey's 

 Hannibal the Great was thought to be the best of his 

 year, an enormous animal of immense power, but 

 perhaps a little heavier and too mastiff-like in 

 head to quite please some of our insular prejudices. 

 He came to this country with a reputation as the 

 best of his race in the land of his birth, which was 

 Germany. This dog unfortunately got strangled in 

 his kennel in August, 1892. Other good dogs are, or 

 were, a Belgian dog, Herr Dobbelmann's Bosco 

 Colonia, fawn in colour, who won prizes at the 



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