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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XLV
THE
PEKINESE
AND
THE
JAPANESE
Few
of
the
many
breeds
of
foreign
dogs
now
established
in
England
have
attained
such
a
measure
of
popularity
in
so
short
a
time
as
the
Pekinese.
Of
their
early
history
little
is
known,
beyond
the
fact
that
at
the
looting
of
the
Summer
Palace
of
Pekin,
in
1860,
bronze
effigies
of
these
dogs,
known
to
be
more
than
two
thousand
years
old,
were
found
within
the
sacred
precincts.
The
dogs
were,
and
are
to
this
day,
jealously
guarded
under
the
supervision
of
the
Chief
Eunuch
of
the
Court,
and
few
have
ever
found
their
way
into
the
outer
world.
So
far
as
the
writer
is
aware,
the
history
of
the
breed
in
England
dates
from
the
importation
in
1860
of
five
dogs
taken
from
the
Summer
Palace,
where
they
had,
no
doubt,
been
forgotten
on
the
flight
of
the
Court
to
the
interior.
Admiral
Lord
John
Hay,
who
was
present
on
active
service,
gives
a
graphic
account
of
the
finding
of
these
little
dogs
in
a
part
of
the
garden
frequented
by
an
aunt
of
the
Emperor,
who
had
committed
suicide
on
the
approach
of
the
Allied
Forces.
Lord
John
and
another
naval
officer,
a
cousin
of
the
late
Duchess
of
Richmond's,
each
secured
two
dogs;
the
fifth
was
taken
by
General
Dunne,
who
presented
it
to
Queen
Victoria.
Lord
John
took
pains
to
ascertain
that
none
had
found
their
way
into
the
French
camp,
and
he
heard
then
that
the
others
had
all
been
removed
to
Jehal
with
the
Court.
It
is
therefore
reasonable
to
suppose
that
these
five
were
the
only
Palace
dogs,
or
Sacred
Temple
dogs
of
Pekin,
which
reached
England,
and
it
is
from
the
pair
which
lived
to
a
respectable
old
age
at
Goodwood
that
so
many
of
the
breed
now
in
England
trace
their
descent.
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