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NON-SPORTING CHAMPIONS IN COMPETITION. 



THE WINNING DOG ON THE BOARD IS CH. SILENT DUCHESS. 



SECTION VI. 

 THE DOG'S STATUS, SOCIAL AND LEGAL. 



CHAPTER LXII. 

 THE KENNEL CLUB. 



BY E. W. JAQUET. 



"Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; 

 As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, 



curs, 



Sloughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clepped 

 All by the name of dogs; the valued file 

 Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, 



ON June 28th and agth, 1859, was 

 held, in ttie Town Hall of Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, the first dog show ever 

 organised under modern conditions ; the 

 precursor of all succeeding canine ex- 

 hibitions and an event which indirectly was 

 to lead to the formation of the Kennel Club 



The housekeeper, the hunter, everyone 

 According to the gift which bounteous nature 

 Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive 

 Particidar attention from the bill 

 That writes them all alike : And so of men." 



SHAKESPEARE. 



itself. For the new departure immediately 

 " caught on," and dog shows at once be- 

 came so popular that within a very short 

 time they were taking place at frequent 

 intervals in every part of the country. 



Six years after the Newcastle show 

 viz. on April i8th, 1865 the first trial of 



