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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 K E X X E L CLUB. 



BY E. \V. J.VOUET. 



"Ay, in the catalogiie ye go for men: 

 As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels. "Spaniels, 



curs, 

 Sloughs, jva/er-rugs. and demi-n'ol-ees are elepped 

 All by the name of dogs; the valued file 

 Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle. 



OX June 28th and 2r)tli, 1859, was 

 lield, in the 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; wherebv he does receive 

 Particular attention from the bill 

 That li'rites them all alike; And so of men." 

 — Shakespeare. 



itself. For the new departure immediately 

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

 came so popular that within a \"ery short 

 time they were taking place at frequent 

 intervals in e\'ery part of the country. 



Six years after the Newcastle show — 

 viz. on April i8th, 1865 — the first trial of 



