8 Dog Shows and Doggy People 



of both varieties, but mostly Smooth-coated, have had a longer term 

 of popularity than any other kind in my remembrance, though 

 Rough Collies and Irish and Scottish Terriers would run them very 

 hard ; and some years since Dachshunds, and afterwards Bassets, 

 had a fairly good time, so had Skye Terriers, particularly the 

 Prick-eared variety, for although I am fond of and have had many 

 good specimens of both, there is no doubt the Drop-eared sort has 

 never been so generally liked as the other, but I never could 

 ascertain the reason. 



St. Bernards had a long lease of favour, but they, like 

 Newfoundlands (both the Black and the Black-and-white, known 

 as " the Landseer," and I have on one or two occasions seen more of 

 the latter than the former colour at shows). Great Danes, Mastiffs 

 (alas ! wonderfully reduced in numbers of late years, although, above 

 most others, looked on as one of the "national " breeds), Irish Wolf- 

 hounds, Deer-hounds, and Borzois, are too large and expensive to 

 buy, keep, and take about the country to become " everybody's 

 money." Dandies had a good run a few years ago, and, for their 

 many charms and sterling merit, should never go out of favour, as, 

 although their virtues are numerous, their faults are few ; they can 

 make themselves at home in a palace or a cot. 



By-the-bye, I was quite delighted to see lately an article, illustrated 

 with photographs, by Mr. Gambier Bolton, in one of the magazines 

 the Windsor, I think of some of the favourite animals of His 

 Majesty the King, then the Prince of Wales, who, like his revered 

 and beloved parents and his charming Consort, is, we know, devotedly 

 fond of animals ; and, amongst others, a capital portrait was given of 

 Venus, a Dandie Dinmont Terrier, the inseparable companion and 

 friend of His Majesty, who, the article stated, would never be without 

 her, at home or abroad, and never allowed any one else to feed her 

 but himself. If anything could endear His Majesty to the vast 

 multitude of English-speaking dog-lovers more than he is at present, 

 such a trait in his character is the thing to do it. 



And it is no " fairy tale," I firmly believe, as, again and again 

 when I have seen Their Majesties at shows going through the 

 various rows of benches, I have noticed the evident bond of 

 sympathy between them and the dogs, and how they would 

 frequently stop to say a word to one and another, and when they 

 came to any from the Royal kennels, the delight and recognition 

 was mutual and effusive. 



Old English Terriers, though eminently useful and workmanlike 



