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' Brighton,' having been more particularly celebrated for their en- 

 durance. 



From an examination of their pedigree as given in the Appendix, 

 it will be obvious that c Jason ' and e Rosebud ' were first cousins, 

 once removed as regards ' Butterfly,' and twice removed as regards 

 6 Majesty.' Mr. Randell's celebrated bitch 'Rival,' as stout a 



greyhound as ever ran, was by a grandson of ( King Cob ' out of a 



i 

 daughter of that dog ; and Mr. Sharpe's ' Maid of Islay,' whose 



portrait (taken by photograph) heads this chapter, is another 

 illustration of success attending this mode of breeding, she being 

 by c Jason,' a grandson of 'Monarch,' out of ( Molly Malone,' a 

 granddaughter of the same dog, and she also has plenty of bone. 

 Mr. Long's ' Lizzie ' again may be quoted, being a large and bony 

 bitch, yet out of an aunt by her nephew. f Motley,' and his sisters 

 6 Kitty Brown,' f Miss Hannah,' and ' Moneytaker,' were also in-bred 

 and have been of great use at the stud, especially the two first 

 named, to which we are indebted for ' David ' and his numerous 

 winning progeny, and for ( Chloe,' the winner of the Waterloo Cup 

 last year. All the litter were, however, small, but as ( Tollwife,' 

 their dam, was a diminutive bitch, and had a strain of the Italian 

 greyhound, no conclusion can be arrived at on that score. ' Mus- 

 tard,' sire of ' Monarch ' and other good greyhounds, was three 

 times in-bred to ( King Cob,' yet he possessed great size and 

 enormous bone, and his son c Monarch ' resembles him in both 

 these particulars. As one of the strongest modern instances of 

 close in-breeding without loss of constitution, size, or bone, I 

 append his pedigree, which is the more remarkable from the fact 



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