THE ST. BERNARD. 



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exhibitions. From him I bred Grosvenor, 

 who was a champion before he was eighteen 

 months old, and he also sired many other 

 winners, but it was from Abbess that the 

 bulk of the Shefford winners were bred. 

 From an alliance with Thor came the rough- 



Amoug the puppies exhibited was the late 

 Mr. Du ^laurier's Chang, who was so often 

 afterwards seen in his owner's charming 

 drawings in Punch. The defeat of Chang 

 led to a caricature of the owner of Augusta 

 being inserted in Punch, and an amusing 



MR. J. W. PROCTORS CH. VIOLA. BY CH. PARSIFAL- 

 BRED BY MESSRS. INMAN AND WALMSLEY, 

 Photograph by F. C. Higiietl and Son. Losloci. 



-CH. WOGLINDE. 



coated Champion Hector and the smooth- 

 coated Champion The Shah, the best dogs 

 of their daj' ; Dagmar, a very handsome, 

 rough-coated bitch, and Abbess II., both big 

 winners, and four others. Then she threw 

 Champion Othman to Moltke, Champion 

 Mab (sold as a puppy to Mr. J. C. Tinker), 

 and Augusta, who, amongst her wins, was 

 first in a class of thirty-three dogs and 

 bitches at the Kennel Club show at the 

 Alexandra Palace, two of her litter sisters 

 being second and third. On this occasion all 

 the first and second prizes, except one second, 

 in the five classes given, were won by 

 Bemie's children and grandchildren. 



article in The Pall Mall Gazelle from the pen 

 of Mr. Du ]\laurier. 



Two incidents in connection with Abbess 

 and Augusta are wortli recording as showing 

 that the instinct to sa\'e life is inherent in 

 the breed. On seeing a little Fo.x-terrier 

 puppy that had fallen into a tanpit in- 

 effectually struggling to get out, Abbess 

 pushed her way through a group of dogs, 

 and, carefully taking the puppy in her 

 mouth, placed it in safety and then re- 

 turned to the other dogs ! On another 

 occasion the stable in which was Augusta 

 with two puppies became flooded from 

 an overflow of the river in the night. On 



