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at shows. I remember him as a very large, I think, 

 dark Harlequin-coloured specimen of the breed, al- 

 ways muzzled, even on the bench, and it usually re- 

 quired two, and sometimes four, keepers to deal with 

 him, and on one occasion, I think it was a show at Bris- 

 tol Drill Hall, many years since, when he was being re- 

 moved from the benches to be sent back to his owner, 

 he, although still muzzled, overpowered his attendants, 

 and worried and tore most of the clothes from one of 

 them, well known to exhibitors as " Teddy Morgan," 

 who gave me a blood-curdling account of his experi- 

 ences of the affair. He said he fully thought " Satan " 

 would have killed him then and there, and spoke of the 

 nonchalant and airy manner in which his owner treated 

 the matter, when he, afterwards recounted his perils 

 and troubles to him, with all the embellishments of 

 which he was capable, adding, " Mr. Adcock, he guv 

 me a ' quid ' (20 s.) sir, and said he were glad it were 

 me, and not some raw cove what didn't understand 

 dogs!" 



