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and Garside's Shylock, first, second, and third. Black-and-tan 

 Terriers under 5 Ib. had also the same entry of 36, with Messrs. 

 Wade's Florence, Chaplin's Tiney, and Games's Beauty, first, second, 

 and third. White Terriers over 6 Ib. had 8 ; and under 6 Ib., 14 ; 

 the largest exhibitor in the latter being Mr. Fred. White, of Clapham 

 Common, who took all the prize money, as well as two out of 

 three in the other English Terriers over 6 Ib., Mr. Huggins's Blue 

 Prince being first. In Scotch Terriers (Yorkshire) over 6 Ib. 

 there were 20 entries ; and in same variety under 6 Ib. there were 

 15 ; while Skye Terriers had a grand class of 34, and I pity the 

 judge who had to find out the best three ! Dandies and Pugs were 

 small classes after the others ; but Italian Greyhounds mustered well 

 with 20, Mrs. Burke taking first and second with Silvey and Sophy, 

 and Mr. M. Hedley being third with Guiglini (called after the great 

 tenor of that name, I presume). Blenheim Spaniels had seven 

 entries; but King Charles over 7 Ib. were 14; and under 7 Ib., 6. 

 Maltese amounted to 14, including Mr. Mandeville's Fido, a most 

 beautiful specimen, though much larger, as far as my remembrance 

 of him goes, than would find favour at the present day. Lastly, 

 there was an extra class (I suppose corresponding to what we now 

 have in our schedules as "Any other Variety"), and this must have 

 been an " eye-opener " for the judge, or judges, as I see it contained 

 no less than 54 entries ! The first prize appears to have gone to 

 an Egyptian dog called Egil, belonging to Mr. Pearson, and other 

 prizes to Chinese dogs called Wong, Chin Chin, Joss, and Chow 

 Chow, owned by Mr. Dods, Dr. Burke, and Captain Wingfield 

 respectively, and another to Sam, a Boar-hound of Captain Roger 

 Palmer's, M.P. 



As far as my knowledge of the subject goes, and I have taken 

 much interest in it for many years, the entries at this show were 

 quite exceptional, and in some of the varieties I should think 

 the best that had ever been seen up to that time. Remember, 

 there were no duplicates ; all were separate entries of actual dogs. 

 Probably the fact of the 1862 Exhibition then being in full 

 swing (I remember that was the reason I was in London, and took 

 the opportunity to " go to the dogs "), may have had much to do 

 with the success of the show ; but I have ventured to go into 

 details in this case, hoping the particulars may be of interest to 

 some of my readers, as showing that so long as thirty-nine years 

 ago there were a great many very keen " dog fanciers " amongst 

 inhabitants of these islands. 



