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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ond prizes, except one second,in the five classes given, were won byBernies children and grandchildren. article in The Pall Mall Gazelle from the penof Mr. Du Maurier. Two incidents in connection with Abbessand Augusta are worth recording as showingthat the instinct to save life is inherent inthe breed. On seeing a little Fox-terrierpuppy that had fallen into a tanpit in-effectually struggling to get out, Abbesspushed her way through a group of dogs,and, carefully taking the puppy in hermouth, placed it in safety and then re-turned to the other dogs ! On anotheroccasion the stable in which was Augustawith two puppies became flooded froman overflow of the river in the night. On 68 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. the following morning the puppies, abouta month old, were found safe in the man-ger, with Augusta standing up to hermiddle in water. Liela, a magnificent brindle and whitebitch, bred by Mr. R. Thornton, ofSydenham, and another, were, with theexception of Rector, the first St. Bernards
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MR. GEORGE SINCLAIRS CH. LORD MONTGOMERY BY CH. TANNHAUSER DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND. Photograph by C. Rcid, Wishaw. Another guineas worth from Bernie pro-duced a litter of seventeen, making thirty-one puppies in less than twelve months. Thebucket was not brought into requisition thistime. Nature was allowed to take itscourse, and the survival of the fittestresulted in nine being reared, in which therewere again several winners, amongst thembeing Queen Bertha, who was the founda-tion of Mr. W. A. Joyces kennel at TulseHill. The late Mr. S. W. Smith, of Leeds, tookup the breed in the late seventies. Heowned a big winner in Barry. This dogwon something like one hundred and fiftyfirst prizes at the small shows in the Northof England. But Mr. Smith had a muchbetter dog in Duke of Leeds, who, with that were exported to America, £800 beingthe price given for the three. Previously,however, Rector, a son of ChampionMonk, had been sold to Mr. J. K. Emmett,the American actor, who exhibited him ont

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