Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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to the kennels of Mr.S. H. Mangin, Dr. Sidney Turner, Mr.Mark Beaufoy, Mr. F. W. Cousens, Mr.A. O. Mudie, Lord Decies, Mr. HoodWright, Mr. A. Croxton Smith, Dr. C. C.Garfit, Dr. Semmence, and Mrs. C. AshtonCross, to mention only a few owners and 148 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. breeders who have given attention to thisnoble race of dog. Mr. Mangin was thebreeder of Ch. Hordle Hercules, a dogof distinguished quality, and his prefixis familiar to all admirers of the Blood-hound. Hercules was the sire of the Cham-pion bitch, Mirables Mischief, and manyanother worthy representative of the breed.The Duchess of Dunsborough, another as with philosophic thought, his flews deepand square, his dewlap loosely hanging,his whole expression that of an ancientsphinx. He is surprisingly active and ofenduring strength. At tracking the cleanboot he justifies the reputation of his keen-scented breed, and his hardy constitutionmakes him impervious to all physical ills.Probably he gets his hardiness from Wel-
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MR. ROBERT PRATTS HIPPOLYTA BY CH. PANTHER BOUNDLESS. BRED BY MR. CHARTERIS. bitch who won championship honours, wasalso of Mr. Mangins breeding. Mr. CroxtonSmith has the distinction of having bred,amongst many other excellent hounds,Ch. Hengist, now the treasured propertyof Dr. C. C. Garfit, of Kirby Muxloe. Hengist is a magnificent upstandingblack-and-tan hound, twenty-seven inchesin height at the shoulder, with legs likeoak saplings for strength and firmness ofbone and muscle and sinew. His head issignificant of all that is aimed at in Blood-hound type, high peaked and ponderous,Willi low-set cars pendulous as a chancel-lors wig, his sombre, inscrutable eyes look-ing out from their cavernous depths insage contemplation, his forehead furrowed fare, his dam, whose own dam, Ch.Whats Wanted, was a result of Mr. MarkBeaufoys outcross through Babylone, aFrench hound derived from crossing aBloodhound with a Vendee and again cross-ing with a St. Hubert. On his sire Pan-thers side Hengist i

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