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but of late years nothing has come amiss to him, and my readers 

 will, many of them, have seen his life-like portraits of almost every 

 known breed of dog, some of which, he tells me, he has had to 

 paint more than a dozen times over for all kinds of purposes, such 

 as the lids of snuff-boxes, brooches, bracelets, pins, sleeve-links, 

 lockets, studs, etc., and no doubt they form very valuable souvenirs, 

 in more senses than one, of departed four-footed friends. And he 

 has been very successful with cats. 



Mr. Bailey has a grown-up family, several of whom show artistic 

 talents, and he has -been, in his time, a crack shot, having won 

 cups, in keen competition, in former days. 



I hope we may long have the pleasure of seeing him at gatherings 

 of the Fancy amongst Doggy People, where he is so much in request. 



Mr. C. J. Barnett 



THE personality of the subject of my sketch, the Hon. Secretary of 

 the English Branch of the Irish Terrier Club, will be familiar to 



many of my readers, 

 although he is not seen 

 at so many shows nowa- 

 days as his friends would 

 wish. By his own ac- 

 count of himself, he has 

 " been a fancier all his 

 life," commencing, even 

 before he left school, 

 with a Fox-terrier, and 

 then, in 1881, took to 

 Irish Terriers, to which 

 he has stuck ever since, 

 his first coming from 

 Dr. Carey, the respected 

 Hon. Secretary of the 

 Irish Terrier Club (Irish 

 Branch), and his next he 

 bought from Mr. G. R. 

 Krehl, a puppy by Play 

 Boy ex Fury, which, 

 owing to some chaff from 

 MR. c. j. HARNETT a neighbour, he named 



