Two years ago Exhibitor Florence B Ilch got a telegram that said: "Your son died this morning." Mrs. Ilch fainted beside her collies at the Westminster Kennel Club show; later learned that her son was alive and well, that the telegram had been a fake. This year Exhibitor Madeline Frank's collie, Black Pirate, lay down on his bench, vomited, and after a convulsion of his sleek body, ruffled with white at the chest, closed his eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity. Amid the...
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