too Dog Shows and Doggy People 



like thirty in a class and now what are they ? No doubt he was 

 the first to put his foot down on the crooked-legged Spaniels, 

 which he did at Frome, turning out a Birmingham winner. He 

 has strong opinions, and sticks to them, even to refusing to judge 

 the present classification at the Crystal Palace Show, 1899. Some 

 years since he had a pack of i2-in. Beagles, and he acted as Whip 

 to a trencher-fed pack, which showed good sport. 



The photo is taken with a brace of working Spaniels, the far one 

 numbering fifteen years, and still good for half a day's work ; the 

 owner seventy-two next grass. 



Dr. A. E. Flaxman, M.A. Oxon. 



DR. AMERIC EDWIN FLAXMAN, Natural Science Scholar, Christ 

 Church, adopted medicine as a profession and experimental breeding 

 as an amusement upon the advice of his old tutor and revered master, 



Professor Thomas 

 Huxley. Settling in 

 Fife in the early 

 eighties, he trained 

 and bred a few good 

 trotters, notably "Miss 

 Flaxman," which he 

 drove, himself weigh- 

 ing 12 stone, in an 

 old-fashioned sulky on 

 an indifferent track 

 to a record of 2*52, 

 winning the i^-mile 

 International Stakes 

 at Alexandra Park, 

 London. He was for 

 some time President 

 of the Trotting Union 

 of Scotland. 



Poultry he also bred 



with considerable success ; but his chief delight lay in breeding 

 dogs, of which he has kept many kinds and sizes, ranging from 

 Pyrenean Wolf-hounds and Dalmatians to Yorkshire Terriers. 



l-'rom photo by J. S. Ireland, Anstruther 



DR. A. E. FLAXMAN 



