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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Many
years
ago
Mr.
Alfred
de
Rothschild
tried,
through
his
agents
in
China,
to
secure
a
specimen
of
the
Palace
dog
for
the
writer,
in
order
to
carry
on
the
Goodwood
strain,
but
without
success,
even
after
a
correspondence
with
Pekin
which
lasted
more
than
two
years;
but
we
succeeded
in
obtaining
confirmation
of
what
we
had
always
understood:
namely,
that
the
Palace
dogs
are
rigidly
guarded,
and
that
their
theft
is
punishable
by
death.
At
the
time
of
the
Boxer
Rebellion
only
Spaniels,
Pugs,
and
Poodles
were
found
in
the
Imperial
Palace
when
it
was
occupied
by
the
Allied
Forces,
the
little
dogs
having
once
more
preceded
the
court
in
the
flight
to
Si-gnanfu.
The
Duchess
of
Richmond
occasionally
gave
away
a
dog
to
intimate
friends,
such
as
the
Dowager
Lady
Wharncliffe,
Lady
Dorothy
Nevill,
and
others,
but
in
those
days
the
Pekinese
was
practically
an
unknown
quantity,
and
it
can
therefore
be
more
readily
understood
what
interest
was
aroused
about
eleven
years
ago
by
the
appearance
of
a
small
dog,
similar
in
size,
colour,
and
general
type
to
those
so
carefully
cherished
at
Goodwood.
This
proved
to
be
none
other
than
the
since
well-known
sire
Ah
Cum,
owned
by
Mrs.
Douglas
Murray,
whose
husband,
having
extensive
interests
in
China,
had
managed
after
many
years
to
secure
a
true
Palace
dog,
smuggled
in
a
box
of
hay,
placed
inside
a
crate
which
contained
Japanese
deer!
Ah
Cum
was
mated
without
delay
to
two
Goodwood
bitches,
the
result
being,
in
the
first
litters,
Ch.
Goodwood
Lo
and
Goodwood
Put-Sing.
To
these
three
sires,
some
of
the
bluest
Pekinese
blood
is
traceable,
vide
Ch.
Goodwood
Chum,
Ch.
Chu-Erh
of
Alderbourne,
Ch.
Gia-Gia,
Manchu
Tao-Tai,
Goodwood
Ming,
Marland
Myth,
and
others.
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