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nearly sixty, if I rightly remember and a favourite breed with 

 which I have long been connected in many ways. 



Another well-known organiser and manager of dog shows is 

 Mr. Charles Cruft, of Holloway, who is perhaps more widely 

 known than any other individual in connection with doggy 

 matters generally, his long association with " Spratt's," before 

 there was either a " Patent " or a " Limited " added to it, having 

 brought him into contact with multitudes of people with like 

 interests, and his vast experience enabling him to deal with 

 anything, likely or unlikely, which occurs at a show, and to be 

 an invaluable adviser of those embarking on show management of 

 any kind. I may here mention some gentlemen who have been, 

 so to say, under the tutelage of the last named, as I think I 

 remember them all at one time or another assisting in some of 

 the gigantic undertakings carried out by him, not only in this 

 country but on the continent of Europe. I mean Messrs, 

 de Vere Beauclerk, Goss, Sparrcw, and Edwardson, all of whom 

 will be known to many of my readers for their ability, courtesy, 

 patience, and general good fellowship, and when either of these 

 gentlemen is at the head of affairs, all those judges and exhibitors 

 " who know anything at all " are aware things are likely to go 

 "as merrily as a marriage bell," and that the manager will be 

 " here, there, and all over the show," and if things are not kept 

 strictly " up to the mark " by the keepers and other subordinates 

 of the show, he will speedily want to know the reason why ! 



Amongst the more occasional or amateur managers and 

 organisers, irrespective of the great army of able and indefatigable 

 'secretaries of shows throughout the kingdom, whose names even 

 it would be impossible to mention here, but whose merits and 

 virtues it is to be hoped their respective committees and 

 members duly appreciate, I may refer to Mr. W. W. Aspinall, 

 late and for many years Secretary to the Kennel Club, and 

 General Manager of numerous colossal shows and field trials 

 ably and successfully carried out under his superintendence, and 

 who now fills the position of Secretary to the International 

 Kennel Club, which has been lately formed under Royal and 

 other distinguished patronage. 



Mr. W. K. Taunton is another who, as Hon. Secretary to the 

 British Kennel Association and Hon. Manager for the Crystal 

 Palace Company of their dog shows, and on one or more 

 occasions acting in like capacity for the Kennel Club at their 



