. 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. 330 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. time—the young gamesters who patronised the prize-ring and the cock-pit—desired to ha\'e a dog who should do something more than kill rats, or unearth the fox, or bolt the otter : which accomplishments afforded no amusement to the Town. They wanted a dog combining all the dash and gameness of the terrier with the heart and courage and fighting instinct of the Bulldog. \Miere- fore
. 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. 330 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. time—the young gamesters who patronised the prize-ring and the cock-pit—desired to ha\'e a dog who should do something more than kill rats, or unearth the fox, or bolt the otter : which accomplishments afforded no amusement to the Town. They wanted a dog combining all the dash and gameness of the terrier with the heart and courage and fighting instinct of the Bulldog. \Miere- fore the terrier and the Bulldog were CH. BLOOMSBURY YOUNG KING BY BLOOMSBURY KING BLOOMSBURY NORAH. BRED AND OWNED BY MR, J. HAYNES. A large type of terrier was chosen, and this would be the smooth-coated black-and- tan, or the early English white terrier ; but probably both were used indifferently, and for a considerable period. The result gave the young bucks what they required : a dog that was at once a determined vermin killer and an intrepid fighter, upon whose skill in the pit wagers might with confidence be laid. The animal, however, was neither a true terrier nor a true Bulldog, but an un- compromising mongrel ; albeit he served his immediate purpose, and was highl}' valued for his pertinacity, if not for his ap- pearance. In 1806 Lord Camelford pos- sessed one for which he had paid tlie very high price of eighty-four guineas, and which he presented to Belcher, the pugilist. This dog was figured in The Sporting Magazine of the time. He was a short-legged, thick- set fawn-coloured specimen, with closely amputated ears, a broad blunt muzzle, and a considerable lay-back ; and this was the kind of dog which continued for many years to be known as the Bull-and-terrier. He was essentially a man's dog, and was vastly in favour among the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Gradually the Bulldog element, at first so pronounced, was reduced to something like a fourt
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