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and it can therefore be more readily 
understood what interest was aroused 
about eleven years 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 years to secure a 
true Palace dog, smuggled, I believe, in 
a box of hay, 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- 
MISS F. A. MATHIAS' 
MARLAND MYTH 
BY GOODWOOD MING-—— 
KAN TIEN. 
Tao - Tai, Goodwood 
Ming, Marland Myth, 
and others. 
It must, however, 
be clearly admitted 
that since the popu- 
larity of the breed 
derbourne, Ch. CH. CHU-ERH OF ALDERBOURNE has become  estab- 
Gia-Gia, Manchu BY MANCHU TAO-TAI—MANCHU WEI WEI. 
MRS. TORRENS’ CH GOODWOOD CHUN 
BY GOODWOOD PUT-SING——-GOODWOOD NA LA. 
lished we unluckily 
see scores of Pekinese 
in the show-r-ng 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 Io 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 18 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 
