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Later in 1920, another little article: Because in 1922 we find a report of the
General Assembly of the club, held on
“Senoussi, the Moroccan-born Sloeqi male March 5, 1921. A club with only 24
purchased by us in France, arrived here on members but very active. In the annual
Saturday, the 4th of this year, although report of the secretary, we find our

somewhat "tainted" by the long journey, in Senoussi again as the father of 2 litters.
good health. He is a robust, big, well grown, The first one was born on June 20, 1920,
cheerful boy full of fire and young vitality. mother Benti van den Roumi, 5 - 3
Shyness and nerves are unknown to him. He puppies, breeder Mrs. W. M. C. Klaassen.

stands straight on his feet. Pity that, as a And the second on July 2, 1920, with Arbi
characteristic of the Arab tribe into which he Benti, 2 - 2 pups, breeder Mrs. G. C. E.
was born, he is missing a piece of the left ear. Cammann, also secretary/treasurer of the
He is otherwise of the same peculiar type as club.

the first Sloeqis imported here by the late Le In those same minutes we also read en
Gras, and as they appear in some of his passant that there was a silver August Le
drawings. The young Arab is now in the Gras price that you could win at an
kennel of Mr. W. G. Zandvoort in Bussum. exhibition.

Requests for mating this dog should be
addressed to the above-mentioned gentleman.
The stud fee will probably be fl 25,-, which
will be paid into the club's treasury.”

It is known that in some tribes at that time
the dogs were branded for example by three
horizontal stripes on the inside of the front
legs or as here, a cut off piece of their ear, as
proof of ownership.

That “peculiar type like the first Sloeqis”
strikes me as a bit odd. First, when I look at
the picture but especially when you know
that August Le Gras never visited Morocco
because he did not like this country at all.
His Sloughis were all from Algeria and,

judging from the photos, looked quite
different. Finally, the stud fee, it appears in a
following article that it was fl 20,-.
Miss Milly H. C. Klaassen with Benti van den
Roumi and her puppy Tofla, picture taken
September 20, 1917.