150 Dog Shows and Doggy People 



Mrs. J agger 



THIS lady, who will be well known to many of my readers, particularly 

 those interested in St. Bernards, has for many years held quite a 

 unique position with regard to them, as I believe she is the only lady 

 in Europe who has ever judged them, and this she has done many 

 times, at Belfast, Halifax, Leicester, Brighton, and at several shows 

 of the Ladies' Kennel Association, of which she has been an active 

 supporter from the beginning. 



Mrs. Jagger has often contributed to the fanciers' papers, such as 

 the Ladies' Field, the Hazaar, the Lady Exhibitor, Ladies' Kennel 

 Journal, and many others, and sometimes written the review of the 

 year on St. Bernards ; she has also written two or three books not 

 connected with dogs. 



Mrs. Jagger has made it a rule not to judge more than twice at 

 any one show, or she might have had many more judging appoint- 

 ments than she has accepted. 



She has been kind enough to send me a slight sketch of her 

 connection with doggy affairs, written in such an attractive and 

 interesting manner, as we should expect from so accomplished a 

 lady and enthusiastic fancier, that I think I cannot do better than 

 leave her to tell her story in her own way, merely congratulating my 

 fellows amongst Doggy People that we have still in our ranks such 

 a capable lady judge, fluent writer, and representative fancier, who 

 enjoys great popularity in a large circle of Doggy People. 



" I have always loved dogs from childhood, and the day when I was 

 the possessor of a Collie pup, or ' cur,' as they were named in my 

 native Yorkshire village, 'all my own' was the happiest day of my 

 life. 



" But my girlish fancies lingered around the dogs of romance the 

 life-saving Newfoundland, the human-hearted creatures that I had 

 read about rescuing travellers on the Alps, the dogs of Sir Walter 

 Scott and others, and I felt that there would be a want in my life 

 until I possessed a grander specimen of the canine race than the 

 home-bred animals around me. 



" I had read about Albert Smith, the first traveller to ascend Mont 

 Blanc, and also the description of the two St. Bernard dogs that he 

 brought back with him. The name of Mr. Macdona next became 

 familiar to me as popularising the breed ; but my first introduction 

 to the St. Bernard was one December day in 1872, when I ventured 



