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fancy, and possibly be interested and amused by some 

 of the humours and vagaries of the Show Rings or the 

 Doggy Anecdotes. These, when they are not within my 

 personal knowledge, I have endeavoured to verify, so 

 as to avoid the " Fairy Tales " we sometimes read 

 under the title of " Doggy Stories." Before closing 

 these remarks, I must express my deep gratitude, to my 

 friend Mr. R. H. Moore, who has given my book the in- 

 estimable advantage of his talented pencil, in portray- 

 ing so many excellent, and truthful portraits of the 

 " Lights of the Canine World," including more than 

 sixty " Champions," of their respective varieties. I am 

 not aware that such a number of Canine Celebrities 

 has ever before been gathered together in one vol- 

 ume, and they represent some of the best pictures of 

 dogs I have ever seen, even of Mr. Moore's, and, I 

 think most dog lovers will acknowledge that he is 

 particularly happy in hitting off the expressions, and 

 catching the actual likeness of his subjects, most 

 kindly taking up the matter for me, when very much 

 pressed with other commissions, not only giving me 

 the benefit of his valuable advice in the selection of the 

 most distinguished, and typical, specimens for the dif- 

 ferent varieties procurable, but entered into the work 

 with the utmost ardour, and zeal ; I feel therefore more 

 indebted to him than I can express, for enabling me to 

 present to the Public such an interesting and, I hope, 

 instructive Picture Gallery of Dogs of the present 

 day. With these few words I commend my little book 

 to the troublous waters of public favour. 



