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bilee, which was given me by Mr Guest. Her sire 

 was Jock by Mr Vicary's Victor Chief, and her 

 dam Vic by Sparkle ex John Press's Fury. Jubilee 

 was a great favourite in the house, and latterly 

 spent most of her time by the kitchen-fire, where 

 she ended her days, being carried off by dropsy 

 when in her fourteenth year. In her working days 

 she was a capital water-dog and very game, though 

 always very excitable. She had a pleasant, good- 

 tempered expression. 



Jubilee was grand at rats, and the time she 

 killed the burglar will always be remembered. At 

 one o'clock in the morning I was disturbed by one 

 of the maids knocking at my door and informing 

 me there was some one trying to get in by the 

 boot-room window, I accordingly got up, and, 

 followed by the trembling household, — the man- 

 servant being away that night, — went round the 

 house ; but finding everything as it should be, I 

 dismissed the maids to their rooms. No sooner 

 had I fallen asleep than another messenger came 

 to say that this time the cellar door was being 

 tried. So down I went again, but with the same 

 result. In the morning Jubilee cleared up the 

 mystery. She showed great anxiety to go down 

 into the cellar, and no sooner had she done so than 

 there was a rush and a squeak, and out she trotted 

 with a large rat in her mouth, the burglar of the 

 previous night. 



To get together a kennel of '* hard ones " you 

 must breed from a good strain, and one that you 



