Mr. George Raper 



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amongst Doggy People all 

 over the world must be 

 extensive and peculiar. 



He is universally 

 popular with all classes, 

 and his genial disposition, 

 pleasant, unassuming 

 manners, and fund of 

 anecdote and dry humour, 

 make him a great favourite 

 with his many friends, so 

 that he is always a welcome 

 addition to any company 

 of Doggy People, with 

 whom he has been so 

 closely connected in 

 business and pleasure for 

 more than a quarter of 

 a century ; but, being 

 endowed with perpetual 

 youth, he looks more like 

 the junior than equal in 

 age of many of his 

 compeers. 



I am pleased to give 

 my readers an excellent 

 portrait (the best I have 

 seen) of this popular 

 fancier; any one who 

 knows "George" as well 

 as the writer will be 

 aware of the multiplicity 

 of his engagements, and 

 how difficult it is to get 

 hold of him in fact, I 

 have written numerous letters, and waited many months, before 

 being able to give even this slight sketch ; but I did not wish him 

 to be an absentee. 



From photo by Thos. Fall. Baker Street, W. 



MR. FRANCIS R. REDMOND WITH HIS 

 SMOOTH-COATED FOX-TERRIER DADDY 



