Although many of the fanciers of the present day will hardly recognise this gentleman, an early member of the Kennel Club, who has so long been an absentee from dog shows (when I had the pleasure of meeting him at the last Kennel Club Show at the Crystal Palace, he told me he had not been at a show for seven years), at one time he took a very keen and vital interest in all matters appertaining to dogs, and on many occasions acted in the capacity of judge at some of the leading shows.

When first I met Mr. Mudie, more than twenty years since (I think before he had completed his university career), he was interested in. Bull-dogs as well as other varieties, and was one of the early supporters of Dachshunds, then in low water and in comparatively few hands, Mrs. Merrick-Hoare and Messrs. Ark-wright, Litt, Walker, Peile, Wootten, Schuller, Harry Jones, and Rev. G. F. Lovell being some of his contemporaries; but Mr. Mudie soon made his kennel one of the best known in the land, and took numerous honours with the high-class specimens he showed, many of them of his own breeding. I will mention the names of some of those best known at the time I am speaking of: Dietrich, Flink, Hussa, Kriemhilda, Olympia, Thusnelda, Kamfer, Lutzow, Otto, Ottilia, Hallad, Use, Wespe, Jacobin, Skelett, Astrid, Herfrida, Schenke, Pelayo, Edelfrau IV., Phonograph, Signy, Juan, Wiggle,Freck, Stephanie, Stutzer, Wolferl, Amsel, Grafinn, Rupsippos, Judith II., Ruprecht, Ophelia, Rettig, and Thora. Of course there are many not included in the above short list, but I think those mentioned will give a fair idea of the quality contained in his kennels, which during the latter part of his show career had the supervision of Mr. Frederick Gardner, for many years in charge of the successful kennels of Mrs. Merrick-Hoare, of Luscombe Castle, and who has been for some years past in the service of Her Grace the Duchess of Newcastle at Clumber Park, since Mr. Mudie's retirement from exhibiting.

MR. ARTHUR O. MUDIE.

MR. ARTHUR O. MUDIE'S DACHSHUND WOLFERL.

From photo by Maxwell, Barnet.

Mr. Mudie enjoyed the friendship and esteem of a large circle, and was universally popular, his sterling character and unobtrusive worth endearing him to all brought in contact with him. He was a somewhat reserved man, with no nonsense, but a great deal of manly vigour, about him, and highly appreciated by those who knew him.

I merely echo the feelings of many of his friends in saying it was felt to be a great loss to the Fancy when he ceased to take an active interest in it and instead of losing them, we want at the present day more of his type of fanciers to swell the ranks of the Doggy People, of whom I have endeavoured to recall the remembrance in the pages of this book.

Scottish Terriers owned by Mr. Mudie included Tuath, first and cup at Bristol, 1886; and Haffet, who was first at Cirencester, 1886. Blood-hounds have been rather favoured by him, as he was the owner of Blueberry, one of the breed tried' in London by Mr. Brough, at Sir Charles Warren's request, when the scare was on about "Jack the Ripper," this dog being given to Mr. Mudie by the late Sir Everett Millais, Bart. He also owned Arkley Thesis (third at Agricultural Hall, 1895), and Porsenna (first and cup in Novices, Manchester, 1896). Mr. Mudie is the Hon. Treasurer of the Blood-hound Breeders' Association, and occasionally hunts his hounds at home. Other breeds kept and sometimes bred by this fancier have been Basset-hounds, Pointers, Setters, and Bedlington and Manchester Terriers. Some of the most notable successes of this kennel have been in Dachshunds 1880: first at Crystal Palace, with Flink; first at Crystal Palace, with Otto; first and cup at Eastbourne, with Thusnelda. 1882: champion prize at Sheffield, with Olympia; first at Norwich, with Kamfer. 1886: first and cup at Liverpool, with Hallad; first at Cirencester, with Signy; first at Cirencester, with Pelayo; first at Oxford, with Phonograph. 1887: first at Norwich (Challenge Class), with Astrid. 1888: first at Ryde, with Wiggle; first at Ryde, with Juan. 1889: first and medal at Southampton, with Herfrida; challenge prize at Manchester, with Jacobin; first at Congleton, with Wolferl; first and cup at Stourbridge, with Stutzer. 1890: first, cup, and medal at Liverpool, with Stephanie; first at Agricultural Hall, with Rupsippos; first and medal at Birkenhead, with Ophelia; first in Puppy Class at Birkenhead, with Ruprecht; first in Puppy Class at Chelmsford, with Rettig. 1891: first and medal at Derby, with Kiel; first and medal at Southport, with Thorolf. 1892: first, cup, and medal at Liverpool, with Thurgerda; first and medal at Crystal Palace, with Kapitel. 1893: first at Crystal Palace, with Schelm. 1895: first in Puppy Class at Agricultural Hall, with Knirps. Most of the above-named have taken many other prizes, etc. Jacobin took about fifty; and Thorolf, Thurgerda, Schelm, and Kapitel very many besides those mentioned above.

I am pleased to be able to give my readers a portrait of Mr. Mudie and of two of his Dachshunds, Wolferl and Schelm.

MR. ARTHUR O. MUDIE'S DACHSHUND SCHELM.

From photo by Maxwell, Barnet.