. 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. 5o8 CHAPTER LIX. LARGER KOX-SPORTING AND UTILITY BREEDS. " ' Evideiiilv a tmvdler in manv coimiries, and a close observer of men and things,' said Mr. Pickivick. " '/ should like to have seen thai poem,' said Mr. Snodgrass. "'I should like to have seen that dog,' said Mr. ; Pickwick Papers. The Dogue de Bordeaux.—As early as are tremendous brutes, and usually as the fourteenth centur
. 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. 5o8 CHAPTER LIX. LARGER KOX-SPORTING AND UTILITY BREEDS. " ' Evideiiilv a tmvdler in manv coimiries, and a close observer of men and things,' said Mr. Pickivick. " '/ should like to have seen thai poem,' said Mr. Snodgrass. "'I should like to have seen that dog,' said Mr. ; Pickwick Papers. The Dogue de Bordeaux.—As early as are tremendous brutes, and usually as the fourteenth century Gaston Phoebus, savage as they are strong. Some of the Comte de Foix, described the great French more docile kind may at times be met with Molossus, or Alant, doubtless the ancestor of the modern Dogue de Bordeaux, and in the distinction he drew between the Alant Gcntil and the Alant de Boucherie may be recognised the difference we draw to-day between the huge fightmg dog of the South of France and the smaller kind with shorter muzzle known as the Boule- dogue du Midi, which is practically the same as the Spanish Bulldog. Even then, stress was laid upon the points we now a s k for in the French Dogue—the wrinkles, the light, small eye, the liver- coloured nose, the absence of dark shadings on the face, and the red mask which is so much preferred to the black, with its frequent accom- paniment of fawn body colour, indi- cating Mastiff blood. Formerly bred for encounters in the arena, the immense dogs of Bordeaux are still occasionally pitted against each other, or against the bull, the bear, or the ass. They. MR. H. C BROOKE'S DOGUE DE BORDEAUX BITCH DRAGONNE. in Paris, where they are bred by wineshop keepers, who, for obvious reasons, do not encourage them to ferocity ; but in the Midi, where they are kept for contest, they are schooled to savagery, and, 'tis said, are even given hot blood to drink that they may become fierce. The Bordeaux dogue has not often been seen on
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