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tered, in competition with Her Majesty's subjects' 

 dogs, they can only be judged * on their merits,' 

 and from what I can see on the benches as the 

 Royal dogs have been pointed out to me by your 

 keepers I don't think many of them will be ' in 

 the money/ as the classes are very large and 

 good." He said, " That will never do; what can 

 be done?" I said, "Will you leave it to me?" 

 He said, " Yes, entirely." I said, " Then I will have all 

 the dogs of the same colour and type as those from the 

 Royal kennels, formed into a separate class," (which 

 luckily, was feasible,) "and judged together." This 

 was done and I hope caused general satisfaction, which 

 would not have been the case had any partiality been 

 shown, nor would such have been approved by Her 

 Majesty, I am perfectly sure, if the circumstances came 

 to be known at the palace. 



On one occasion when I had been judging a 

 number of classes at a large London show, after 

 I had done, one of the fair exhibitors came up to 

 me and said, " You don't seem to like my dogs." 

 I said, " If you will tell me the numbers of your dogs 

 I will refer to my judging book, and see what notes I 

 made of them." She gave the numbers, and I read out 

 the notes on each. But this did not satisfy her, and she 

 said, " Ah ! I am only a poor widow, if I were only a 



rich -heiress, like , I suppose it would be different, 



she can win any number of prizes with her dogs." I re- 

 plied, " You have no right to speak in that way to me, 

 neither you nor any other exhibitor can say I have ever 

 made any distinction between rich and poor. I have al- 



