. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. FOREIGN NON-SPORTING AND UTILITY BREEDS. 509 in the arena, whose forequartcrs were one mass of scars received from dogs he had fouglit with or from bears he had baited. The same gentleman also brought home with him, from Paris, a bitch named Cora. Mr. Brooke purchased a red bitch named Dragonne, afterwards known as Amazone de Bordeaux, and the black masked red dog Tristran. In the same year a separate class fo
. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. FOREIGN NON-SPORTING AND UTILITY BREEDS. 509 in the arena, whose forequartcrs were one mass of scars received from dogs he had fouglit with or from bears he had baited. The same gentleman also brought home with him, from Paris, a bitch named Cora. Mr. Brooke purchased a red bitch named Dragonne, afterwards known as Amazone de Bordeaux, and the black masked red dog Tristran. In the same year a separate class for Dogues de Bordeaux was provided at the Chow Chow show held at the Aquarium, when Mr. G. R. Krehl judged. Mr. H. C. Brooke, who has kindly supplied the information I am using, became enthu- siastic over the breed and soon owned many examples, including Sans-Peur, Diane, Bart, and a fawn red- masked dog with a wonderful head cov- ered with great ropes of wrinkle, who was transferred to Mr. Haslam, and was ex- h i b i t e d successfully under the name of Brutus. These dogs were all of the same type as the magnifi- cent pair Sultane and Buffalo, shown some years previously at the Tuileries, and acknowledged by judges of all nationalities to be perfect. Wishing to possess a dog of the real fighting strain, Mr. Brooke imported from Bordeaux a young fawn dog of gladiatorial lineage. This dog, Matador du Midi, had among its ancestors the celebrated Caporal, for seven years champion of the Pyrenees, who weighed 108 pounds, and stood nearly 25 inches at the shoulder, and had a skull circumference of 26 inches ; Megere, a bitch who had been pitted against wolf, bear and hyaena ; and Hercules, who was finally killed by a jaguar in a terrific battle in San Francisco. Matador du Midi had already had what in the old bear-baiting days was called a " jump " at a bear, and Mr. Brooke tried him when eighteen months old at a large Russian bear which stood six feet high on his hind legs
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