702 The Dog Book 



to Sambo. Dr. Cryer wanted to buy "Joe" and offered the catalogue 

 price of fifteen pounds to the secretary of the show, who declined it saying 

 that he had bought the dog. The fact is that the young man had found out 

 his mistake and got the officials to protect him. Coming back to New York 

 the young man got short of funds and left the dog to pay his board bill, the 

 owner then went to Mr. Mortimer who recognised the dog and bought him, 

 and at the New York show of a few weeks later Joe appeared in his new 

 owners name and won. There was quite a little talk about the seeming 

 peculiarity of these proceedings, but it was all cleared up and the bona- 

 fides of Mr. Mortimer's purchase thoroughly established. Joe, as he con- 

 tinued to be called was by Comedy out a pedigreeless bitch, and he con- 

 tinued his successful career till 1887, winning altogether twelve champion- 

 ships, most of them for Mr. George H. Hill, of Madeira, O. He was also 

 the sire of a number of good pugs. 



After Joe the next good dog imported was Bradford Ruby, a son of 

 Lovat. An excellent pug, just a trifle large, and slightly leggy. This dog 

 had won many prizes before being imported, but when he made his first 

 appearance here at the New York show, the late Hugh Dalziel, who ought 

 to have not only known what a good pug was, but also known what pug this 

 was, gave Bradford Ruby a v. h.c. card. There were sixteen dogs in the 

 open class, which shows how popular pugs were at that time, but all the good 

 dogs were in the v.h.c. division and the three placed animals were plain, 

 ordinary specimens, not one of which distinguished himself after that. As it 

 was now necessary to win three firsts in opep classes before getting to the 

 champion class Bradford Ruby's record in the latter class is not so good 

 as that of Joe, but he won nine firsts in the champion class. After Ruby 

 came Master Tragedy, Othello and Lord Clover, none of them in the class 

 of Ruby. Othello was really the best of the three, but he was rather large 

 and his colour smutty. Master Tragedy fell far short of what we expected 

 on his English reputation. 



The home-bred pugs of Dr. Cryer now became the prominent feature 

 in the breed, beginning with his Max and Bessie, both out of imported Dolly, 

 who was by the Click dog Toby. Then came Dude also out of Dolly, but 

 he was sold, and finally Dude's son Bob Ivy. " Little Bob " was a fitting 

 culmination to the doctor's breeding, for business now compelled him to 

 gradually give up the fascinations of improving and showing pugs. Bob 

 Ivy was a very nice little dog in every way, and his size was all one could 



