THE PEKINESE. 



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and it can therefore be more readily 

 understood what interest was aroused 

 about eleven j'ears ago by the appear- 

 ance of a small dog, similar in size, 

 colour, and general type to those so 

 carefully cherished at Goodwood. This 

 proved to be none other than the since 

 well-known sire Ah Cum, owned by 

 Mrs. Douglas Murray, whose husband, 

 having extensive interests in China, had 

 managed after many 3'ears to secure a 

 true Palace dog, smuggled, I believe, in 

 a box of ha\^ placed inside a crate 

 which contained Japanese deer ! 



Ah Cum was mated without delay to 

 two Goodwood 

 bitches, the result 

 being, in the first 

 litters, Ch. Good- 

 wood Lo, and 

 Goodwood Put- 

 Sing. To these 

 three sires, some 

 of the bluest 

 Pekinese blood 

 is traceable, 

 vide Ch. Good- 

 wood Chun, Ch. 

 Chu-Erh of Al- 

 derbourne, Ch. ch. CHU-ERH OF ALDERBOU 

 Gia-Gia, Manchu bv manchu tao-tai — manchu 



Photograph by Ru'icll. 



RNE 



WEI-WEI 



MRS. TORRENS CH GOODWOOD CHUN 



By GOODWOOD PUT-SING GOODWOOD NA LA 



MISS F. A. MATHIAS' 



MARLAND MYTH 



BY GOODWOOD MING 



KAN TIEN. 



Tao - Tai, Goodwood 

 fjjfc ^H Ming, Marland Myth, 



^^^ and others. 



It must, however, 

 be clearly admitted 

 that since the popu- 

 larity of the breed 

 has become estab- 

 lished we unluckily 

 see scores of Pekinese 

 in the show-ring who 

 have lost all resemblance to the 

 original type, and for this the Pe- 

 kinese Club is in some measure to 

 blame. The original points for the 

 guidance of breeders and judges were 

 drawn up by Lady Samuelson, Mrs. 

 Douglas Murray, and the writer, and 

 we fixed the maximum size at 10 lb., 

 which we considered a very generous 

 margin. Since then the club has 

 amended the scale of points, no 

 doubt in order to secure a larger 

 membership, and the maximum now 

 stands at i8' lb. 



Is it therefore to be wondered at 

 that confusion exists as to what is 

 the true type ? At shows there 

 should be two distinct classes ; the 



