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Dog Shows and Doggy People 



Star, Mile End Muddler, and Beautiful Jim. Although he now 

 seldom shows, he still breeds about twenty a year, and is a popular 

 judge of the variety, and being a general favourite amongst those 

 having these pleasure of his acquaintance, I am sure even this slight 



sketch of him will be 

 welcome to many of 

 his numerous friends 

 amongst Doggy People. 

 I find Mr. C. J. 

 Barnett is of much the 

 same opinion as the 

 writer has expressed in 

 another part of this 

 book, that Dog Showing 

 has become a " money- 

 making business," and 

 not so much a gathering 

 of genuine fanciers to 

 compare notes of the 

 improvements, or other- 

 wise, in the stock being 

 brought out, as was 

 formerly the case. 



An interesting group of 

 Mr. Barnett's celebrated 

 Irishmen is given here- 

 with, never before pub- 

 lished, also an excellent 



l ; roni photo by W. H. Pugh, Liverpool 



MK. A. A. UE VERE BEAucLEKK portrait of Mr. Barnett. 



Mr. A. A. de Vere Beauclerk 



THIS gentleman will require no introduction to the greater number 

 of my readers, as he has so often taken a responsible position in 

 connection with many of the largest and most important dog shows 

 in the kingdom, that his duties have brought him into contact with 

 a multitude of Doggy People. 



Mr. Beauclerk commenced his connection with show work in 

 1889, an< 3 has acted as Secretary and Manager of Manchester Dog 

 Show since 1896, of the Shows in connection with the Essex 



