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attached to him, by careful breeding in the hands of Mr. Lukey, 
Mr. Edgar Hanbury, Captain Garnier, and others. Mr. Lukey was, 
no doubt, the first in this undertaking, and though, perhaps, his 
dog “ Wallace,” which I selected twenty years ago as the type of 
“Wattacs,” an English Mastiff, the Property of T. Lukey, Esq. 
the breed, has since been slightly surpassed by his own “ Gover- 
nor,” still I think it desirable to retain him as my illustration, 
showing, as he does, how little has been done since his time. Mr. 
Lukey’s account to me of the origin of his breed is as follows :— 
“In 1835 I bought of the late George White of Knightsbridge a 
