PEKES AS PRINCES
Not many owners of Pekingese dogs are aware that the ancestors of their little pets were specially honoured by the early Chinese Emperors, or that in the second century the Son of Heaven, Ling Ti, conferred upon one little dog of this type "the official hat of the Chin Hsien grade, a literary degree of the highest importance further he ordered that the female dogs should be honoured as wives of officials." They sat "at the side of the Emperor's couch, and at every audience wagged their tails and barked." These entertaining facts and many others (says a Daily Mail reviewer) are set forth by Mr Edward C. Ash in "The Practical Dog Book" just published.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3270, 10 March 1931, Page 7
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