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blessed, I knowed he knowed 'em, he didn't hardly want 

 to look at my dog, he didn't, he could see he were 

 the best with half an eye, he could," and, from being a 

 solemn and sad-looking person, he became the most 

 jovial-looking fellow you could wish to see. I did not 

 know his name, and do not know it now, but he amused 

 me very much at the time! 



I do not remember where it occurred, but I was 

 judging rather a good class of Scottish Terriers 

 somewhere in the provinces, and a keeper brought 

 in a dog I liked the look of, and after going over 

 the classes I marked him first, and told the keeper 

 to take him away and bench him, which I sup- 

 pose he did. You can imagine my surprise when 

 shortly after, the same dog made his appearance in the 

 ring again, this time led by a man I knew well as rather 

 an extensive exhibitor, at that time, and he began 

 " making the most of his dog " before me. But as I 

 had quite done with him, and had still some of my 

 awards in the class to make, I did not want that, so I 

 said, " I should take away that dog, and bench him if 

 I were you, as he has been judged and sent out some- 

 time since." The exhibitor in question, whom his worst 

 enemy would not describe as either shy or timid, was 

 unusually rapid in his departure from that ring, and I 

 have since heard the story from others, to whom I sup- 

 pose he told it, but I have never told it until now ! 



I have had such a long and varied experience of judg- 

 ing, that although I have often and often had classes 

 large enough and strong enough to make one " pull 

 one's self together," I never remember being really 



