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at eighteen months old under ten pounds, and 

 if you go in for one of fashionable blood, I am 

 quite certain that a good pup of six weeks old 

 cannot be had un derive guineas, and then only 

 as a favour. 



Well do I remember the prices asked by Lon- 

 don dealers. In my younger days I was resolved 

 to have a bulldog, as being the correct thing 

 for a young blood, so I went off to a well-known 

 fancier. I hunted about a long time before I 

 could come on his whereabouts, which was 

 somewhere down by the back of the Clerkenwell 

 Session House. Though I have forgotten the 

 name of the particular filthy and dirty court, I 

 have not forgotten its whereabouts, or the visit 

 in question. 



On knocking at the door of the bedroom (I 

 had gone up two flights of stairs ; it was only 

 a low two-storied house) I was invited to enter, 

 which I did, and found the redoubtable dog- 

 fancier and prize-fighter in bed with his wife, 

 which bed was on the floor in one corner of the 

 room. If my memory serves me right, there 

 were two or three children in it as well. 



Running about were some fancy pigeons, and 





