Dog Shows and Doggy People 



India, and are becoming popular in this country, classes being 

 provided for them at some of the better-class shows. I think 

 Mrs. Morrison was the first person to import any of them, and 

 they are now being bred here. I regret that want 'of space prevents 

 me saying more of these distinguished foreigners. 



I am pleased to give with this sketch illustrations of three or four 



of the rare varieties I have 

 mentioned belonging to this 

 kennel, which I think will 

 be interesting to my readers, 

 and I have been favoured 

 with the best portrait I have 

 seen of this lady, a daughter 

 of Lord Pirbright, who has 

 had a distinguished political 

 career, and was formerly 

 known as Baron Henry de 

 Worms. 



Mrs. Morrison has not 

 confined her attention to 

 dogs alone, but has for 

 many years kept a con- 

 siderable number of both 

 long-haired and short-haired 

 cats, with which she has 



won numerous prizes at the best shows at the Crystal Palace and 

 other places. I think she has chiefly kept Blues and Whites in 

 the former, and Tortoiseshells, Tortoiseshell and Whites, Blacks, 

 and Pure Whites in the latter, and she has been one of the most 

 spirited buyers at the shows, frequently claiming some of the high- 

 class specimens which took her fancy. 



It has so happened that this lady's dogs have very often come 

 under the writer's attention to judge, so that he has had opportunities 

 of seeing the variety and quality of her exhibits, and, knowing the 

 enthusiasm she has displayed under what, in the case of most 

 exhibitors, would be considered almost insuperable difficulties, 

 has much pleasure in adding her name to the list of Doggy 

 People mentioned in this book. 



From photo by J. R. Clarke, Thirsk 



MRS. MCLAREN MORRISON'S JAPANESE 

 SPANIEL MONJU SAM A 



