Mr. Arthur O. Mudie 



ALTHOUGH many of the fanciers of the present day will hardly 

 recognise this gentleman, an early member of the Kennel Club, who 

 has so long been an absentee from dog shows (when I had the 

 pleasure of meeting him at the last Kennel Club Show at the Crystal 

 Palace, he told me he had not been at a show for seven years), at 

 one time he took a very keen and vital interest in all matters apper- 



taining to dogs, and 

 on many occasions 

 acted in the capacity 

 of judge at some of 

 the leading shows. 



When first I met 

 Mr. Mudie, more 

 than twenty years 

 since (I think before 

 he had completed 

 his university career), 

 he was interested in. 

 Bull-dogs as well as 

 other varieties, and 

 was one of the early 

 supporters of Dach- 

 shunds, then in low 

 water and in com- 

 paratively few hands, 

 Mrs. Merrick-Hoare 

 and Messrs. Ark- 

 wright, Litt, Walker, 

 Peile, Wootten, 

 Schuller, Harry 

 Jones, and Rev. 



G. F. Lovell being some of his contemporaries ; but Mr. Mudie 

 soon made his kennel one of the best known in the land, and 

 took numerous honours with the high-class specimens he showed, 

 many of them of his own breeding. I will mention the names of 

 some of those best known at the time I am speaking of: Dietrich, 

 Flink, Hussa, Kriemhilda, Olympia, Thusnelda, Kamfer, Lutzow, 

 Otto, Ottilia, Hallad, Use, Wespe, Jacobin, Skelett, Astrid, Herfrida, 

 Schenke, Pelayo, Edelfrau IV., Phonograph, Signy, Juan, Wiggle, 



MR. ARTHUR O. MUDIE 



