I have learnt that "Champion Rhyme" was the most successful dog or bitch exhibited in its day. Apparently during her successful career she won every prize that could be won by a dog. This wolfhound was the greatest champion of champions; her class prizes were in hundreds and they were won at every show from Land's End to John O'Groats.

"The White Cockade" was taken from an old Jacobite ballard —

WAES ME, FOR PRINCE CHARLIE

A wee bird came to our ha' door,

He warbled sweet and clearlie,

And aye the o'ercome o' his sang,

Was "Waes me, for Prince Charlie!"

Oh! when I heard the bonnie, bonnie bird,

The tears cam drappin rarely;

I took off my bannet aff my head,

For weel I lo'ed Prince Charlie.

"The White Cockade" was also engraved by Henry Graves and Company and sent by them to Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor.

In February, Diane B. Marston from near Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. contacted me to say she had bought a print and wondered if it was an Edwin Douglas.   It was indeed — and was one I had not previously seen —

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