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to meet me one morning. I never saw her again, and do not know 

 what was her end, she and a Fox-hound puppy disappearing at the 

 same time. I fear they were destroyed. 



" Unfortunately, when I was only eight years old my father died, 

 after which my mother and I came to reside in Bridlington. We 

 always had a dog of some description in the house, though far from 

 show specimens, as I now perceive. 



" I never had seen a dog show until a year or two after my 

 marriage. My husband and I happening to be in London at the 

 time of the Kennel Club Show in 1890, we visited it The two 



From photo by Salmon & Batchan, New Bond Street 



MRS. BRIGHAM'S OLD ENGLISH SHEEP-DOG YORSHIRE LADY 



breeds I fancied the most were Bobtails and Smooth Collies; in 

 fact, I never rested until I possessed one of the former, which are 

 still my first choice for sagacity and faithfulness. In the days I am 

 speaking of the lady exhibitors were few. The first Bobtail I ever 

 showed was Blue Bogey (41,09413), at Derby, in my husband's name, 

 afterwards transferring her to myself for the first Ladies' Show at 

 Ranelagh, after which I exhibited Bogey King, Lady May, Wall-eyed 

 Ted, Yorkshire Squire, etc. 



" My first Smooth Collie was purchased from Mr. A. H. Megson, 

 and was named Speculation by no means so good a specimen of 

 this breed as those benched to-day, though he was a winner of 



