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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Mr.
Woolmore's
Crown
Prince
was
one
of
the
most
celebrated
of
Mastiffs.
He
was
a
fawn
dog
with
a
Dudley
nose
and
light
eye,
and
was
pale
in
muzzle,
and
whilst
full
credit
must
be
given
to
him
for
having
sired
many
good
Mastiffs,
he
must
be
held
responsible
for
the
faults
in
many
specimens
of
more
recent
years.
Unfortunately,
he
was
indiscriminately
bred
from,
with
the
result
that
in
a
very
short
time
breeders
found
it
impossible
to
find
a
Mastiff
unrelated
to
him.
It
is
to
be
deplored
that
ever
since
his
era
there
has
been
a
perceptible
diminution
in
the
number
of
good
examples
of
this
fine
old
English
breed,
and
that
from
being
an
admired
and
fashionable
dog
the
Mastiff
has
so
declined
in
popularity
that
few
are
to
be
seen
either
at
exhibitions
or
in
breeders'
kennels.
At
the
Crystal
Palace
in
1871
there
were
as
many
as
sixty-three
Mastiffs
on
show,
forming
a
line
of
benches
two
hundred
yards
long,
and
not
a
bad
one
among
them;
whereas
at
a
dog
show
held
twenty-five
years
later,
where
more
than
twelve
hundred
dogs
were
entered,
not
a
single
Mastiff
was
benched.
The
difficulty
of
obtaining
dogs
of
unblemished
pedigree
and
superlative
type
may
partly
account
for
this
decline,
and
another
reason
of
unpopularity
may
be
that
the
Mastiff
requires
so
much
attention
to
keep
him
in
condition
that
without
it
he
is
apt
to
become
indolent
and
heavy.
Nevertheless,
the
mischief
of
breeding
too
continuously
from
one
strain
such
as
that
of
Crown
Prince
has
to
some
extent
been
eradicated,
and
we
have
had
many
splendid
Mastiffs
since
his
time.
Special
mention
should
be
made
of
that
grand
bitch
Cambrian
Princess,
by
Beau.
She
was
purchased
by
Mrs.
Willins,
who,
mating
her
with
Maximilian
(a
dog
of
her
own
breeding
by
The
Emperor),
obtained
Minting,
who
shared
with
Mr.
Sidney
Turner's
Beaufort
the
reputation
of
being
unapproached
for
all
round
merit
in
any
period.
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