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sewn up and was long in the veterinary surgeon's care 

 and was never in the front rank again ! 



I have known many such cases of good offers being 

 refused to the prejudice of the dog's owners. I remem- 

 ber a well-known lady exhibitor coming up to me at a 

 show with a telegram she had just received 

 from America, offering her £150 for a prize 

 winning pug she had, and asking my advice. 

 I strongly advised her to take it, as it was far 

 more than the market value of the dog, but, in the end, 

 she sent back a refusal. Other dogs came forward, and 

 put her dog into the rear rank, and she afterwards sold 

 it for, I think, about £20. 



Mr. Edwin Nichols, of whom I have spoken in 

 relation to several large breeds, was one of the 

 first men to get large prices for his dogs, as it 

 must be quite twenty years or more since he received 

 so he told me, £900 for two dogs, one of them being 

 the well known Mastiff, " Turk," one of the grandest 

 specimens of his day, and the other a high class Blood- 

 hound. 



And to show what a fine judge he was as to 

 the strains to breed, I remember an instance he gave me 

 from his extensive experience. He met a friend one 

 day to whom he had sold a Bloodhound bitch puppy, 

 who said, " Mr. Nichols, I wish you would take back 

 that puppy I had from you, it is always doing mischief 

 in the garden, etc., and I wish to get rid of it." Mr. 

 Nichols said, " I really don't want it, I have a lot of 

 dogs of all ages, and I am more a seller than a buyer at 

 present." To make a long story short, he eventually 



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