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twenty years ago, and have ever been on the watch to find and secure a really good 

 specimen. In 1863 there were, I think, five exhibited at the Cremorne show, and 

 amongst them a magnificent specimen shown by Capt. Palmer, and called Sam, a 

 print of whom, cut from one of the illustrated papers, I had until quite recently. 

 His fault was his colour, being brindle and white. There was also at that time in 

 London a very handsome brindled dog of this breed, but he did not appear to have 

 that amount of " go " in him that distinguishes it. There have been a great many 

 shown since then, but all of them deficient in size, or in some other vital point ; of 

 these Nero was a remarkably good dog but for that defect. At the last Kennel 

 Club Show there were, I think, five, including my own dog, and some of them were 

 exceedingly good, particularly the almost too beautiful blue bitch shown by Lady 

 Charles Innes Ker. At the Cremorne show there were no dachshunds exhibited, 

 and five Danes. Now the former form large and interesting classes. At the last 

 Paris show the class for Grand Danois contained, I think, twenty-two entries, and a 

 splendid class it was. Surely it is time we English amateurs took this splendid and 

 useful breed in hand, and do for it what we have done for many another which was 

 never half so well worth the trouble. 



There is to me considerable pleasure to be derived from a belief that I am in 

 possession of a dog who is capable of doing something more than hold his own with 

 any dog of any other breed ; and I doubt not a desire to be in a similar position 

 operates upon the minds of other Englishmen, and that it can be gratified at the 

 sacrifice of some little trouble and expense, and will, I have no doubt. Should 

 " Stonehenge " deem it necessary that this breed should meet with some considera- 

 tion at his hands in the new edition of his work on dogs, I shall, in the interests of 

 those who admire them, be very happy to give him further information, illustrations, 

 and extracts ; or, should he be unable to find a better, and is desirous of personally 

 studying the physical and mental attributes of a dog of this breed, my dog Satan is 

 at his disposal for as long as he thinks proper to keep him. 



[In spite of Mr. Adcock's urgent pleading for this breed, I cannot consider it 

 as one of " The Dogs of the British Islands." " STONEHENGE."] 



