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it is so long as to give the appearance of their being webbed. It is also carried well 

 up the backs of the legs. In the King Charles the feather on the ears is very long 

 and profuse, exceeding that of the Blenheim by an inch or more. The feather on 

 the tail, which is cut to a length of about three and a half or four inches, should 

 be silky, and from five to six inches in length, constituting a marked " flag " of a 

 square shape. 



12. In size (value 5) both breeds vary from 51b. to lOlb. in weight ; the smaller 

 the better, if otherwise well proportioned. 



The chief breeders of these beautiful little dogs are the following ladies and 

 gentlemen : 



BLENHEIMS. Mr. J. Barnett, late of Congleton ; Mrs. J. W. Berrie, Wood 

 Green, N. ; Mrs. Popham, Alresford, Hants ; Mr. E. Short, Spitalfields ; Mr. J. 

 Garwood, Gray's-inn-road ; Mr. V. A. Julius, Abergavenny; Mr. S. A. Julius, 

 Hastings. 



KING CHARLES. Miss E. Dawson, Denmark Hill ; Mr. Thorling, Clerkenwell, 

 Mr. J. Garwood, Gray's-inn-road ; Mr. Forder, Bow ; Mr. Hibbord, Spitalfields. 



The specimens I have selected for illustration are first, Mrs. J. W. Berrie's 

 " The Earl," a very beautiful little dbg, and perfect at all points, which took the 

 first prize at the show recently held at the Aquarium in London, in a good class ; 

 secondly, Mr; Julius's " Spot," an excellent specimen of the old-fashioned Wood- 

 stock strain ; and thirdly, Mr. Forder' s " Young Jumbo," very successful at the 

 Kennel Club shows, and, as Mr. Baker's portrait will testify, a very splendid 

 specimen of his breed. 



THE MALTESE DOG. 



A pure white silky coated little dog with long hair has been a ladies' pet from 

 the earliest ages of which we have any record. From some cause or other, a breed of 

 these dogs introduced into the London market within the last thirty years, has 

 received the name of Maltese terrier, but as it has neither been traced to Malta, nor 

 has it any of the properties of the terrier tribe, I am utterly at a loss to know the 

 origin of the name, and as it approaches very closely to the spaniel, I shall include it 

 under that head. Mr. Lukey, the celebrated mastiff breeder, was one of the 

 earliest possessors of the strain, but he obtained it from the Manilla Islands, almost 

 the antipodes to Malta, and altogether unconnected with that Island. The parents 

 of Mr. Lukey's dogs were imported in 1841 by his brother, who was then a Captain 

 in the East India Company's Service, and from them he bred several small litters, 

 which were readily disposed of at high prices. None of Mr. Lukey's breed have 

 ever been exhibited as far as I know, and I believe they have long been extinct. 

 They were, however, remarkably beautiful, and quite came up to the level of Mr. 

 Mandeville's strain, which has kept possession of the show bench since 1862, when 

 the first class of this kind of toy dog was established at the Agricultural Hall 

 Show, in which Mr. Mandeville's Mick and Fido were first and second. In the 

 following year at Ashburnham, the same kennel again produced the first and second 



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