Mr. Arthur CX Mudie 



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Hall, 1895), and Porsenna (first and cup in Novices, Manchester, 

 1896). Mr. Mudie is the Hon. Treasurer of the Blood-hound 

 Breeders' Association, and occasionally hunts his hounds at home. 

 Other breeds kept and sometimes bred by this fancier have been Bas- 

 set-hounds, Pointers, Setters, and Bedlington and Manchester Terriers. 

 Some of the most notable successes of this kennel have been in 



Dachshunds, 1880 : first at 

 Crystal Palace, with Flink ; 

 first at Crystal Palace, with 

 Otto; first and cup at East- 

 bourne, with Thusnelda. 

 1882 : champion prize at 

 Sheffield, with Olympia; first 

 at Norwich, with Kamfer. 

 1886: first and cup at Liver- 

 pool, with Hallad ; first at 

 Cirencester, with Signy ; first 

 at Cirencester, with Pelayo; 

 first at Oxford, with Phono- 

 graph. 1887 : first at Norwich 

 (Challenge Class), with Astrid. 

 1888: first at Ryde, with 

 Wiggle; first at Ryde, with 

 Juan. 1889: first and medal 

 at Southampton, with Herfrida; 

 challenge prize at Manchester, 



with Jacobin; first at Congleton, with Wolferl ; first and cup at 

 Stourbridge, with Stutzer. 1890 : first, cup, and medal at Liverpool, 

 with Stephanie ; first at Agricultural Hall, with Rupsippos ; first 

 and medal at Birkenhead, with Ophelia; first in Puppy Class at 

 Birkenhead, with Ruprecht; first in Puppy Class at Chelmsford, 

 with Rettig. 1891 : first and medal at Derby, with Kiel; first and 

 medal at Southport, with Thorolf. 1892 : first, cup, and medal at 

 Liverpool, with Thurgerda ; first and medal at Crystal Palace, with 

 Kapitel. 1893 : first at Crystal Palace, with Schelm. 1895 : first 

 in Puppy Class at Agricultural Hall, with Knirps. Most of the 

 above-named have taken many other prizes, etc. Jacobin took 

 about fifty; and Thorolf, Thurgerda, Schelm, and Kapitel very 

 many besides those mentioned above. 



I am pleased to be able to give my readers a portrait of Mr. Mudie 

 and of two of his Dachshunds, Wolferl and Schelm. 



From photo by Maxwell, Barnet 

 MR. ARTHUR O. MUDIE'S DACHSHUND 

 SCHELM 



