Mr. James Pratt 



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long experience of Skyes, can say that he remembers only once 

 before seeing a specimen of that colour, more than twenty-five years 

 since, when he was travelling in the Island of Skye. 



Mr. Pratt has had a great many good Skyes, mostly Drop-eared, 

 but a few Prick-eared also, some of them winners of many prizes. He 

 has sold more of them to members of the nobility and gentry for 

 pets than to exhibitors, and had the honour of presenting one or 



FACSIMILE OF ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO MR. JAMES PRATT 



more to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, who generally kept some 

 at the Royal palaces. 



Mr. Pratt has always been a great stickler for straightforward 

 dealing about dogs and their pedigrees, and has more than once 

 taken up the cudgels against those he thought were not doing the 

 right thing, one of his many quaint expressions being, " If we play 

 dogs, play fair ! " 



He has a natural talent for painting, as I never heard he had any 

 instruction, and have seen some very life-like portraits of some of his 

 dogs from his brush. 



Living a great part of his life near Hyde Park, and being in the 



