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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MR. G. R. MURRELLS KING ORRY(BORN 1889) BY PAGAN KOORIE. up underjaw, and was the grandson ofChampion Monarch, who in turn was ofthe Crib—Rose strain) and Champion HisLordship, who was by Don Pedro, who 42 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.
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MR. W. F JEFFERIES RIVAL STONE BY BRITISH STONE BANZIA STONE. Photograph by The Art Portrait Co., Camberwell. belonged to the Crib—Kit strain. It willbe seen that dogs of the Prisoner strainare well outcrossed, seeing that they com-bine two of the four original strains. Thebest representatives are Champion Port-land, Klondike, Fugitive, Persephone, Cham-pion Lady Bute, Lord Milner, Stealaway,and Kilburn King. The most sensational strain of dogs atthe present day is that founded by Mr.Jefferies, as a result of mating his LucyLoo with Mr. R. G. S. Manns John of the Funnels, who was by Wadsley Jack, and,therefore, of the Crib—Miss Smiff strain.One of the puppies of the resulting litterwas later known to the fancy as ChampionRodney Stone, and had the distinctionof being the first Bulldog to be sold for£1,000. He was purchased by Mr. R.Croker, of New York. Rodney Stonehad, together with his son Buckstone, theremarkable property of stamping his ex-pression and body properties on result

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