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honor, for he is lively and highly bred, 

 with dainty appearance, smart compact 

 carriage and profuse coat . . . Japs 

 vary in size from 3 to 10 lbs., the 

 smaller being the most valuable, and 

 much sought after. But they are very 

 scarce, and fetch high prices in con- 

 sequence. . . . The colors are . . . 

 black and white, (lemon-yellow, brown 

 and white). . . . The coat: long, pro- 

 fuse, and straight, without curl, but 

 with a tendency to stand out and form 

 a distinct frill round the neck, and with 



found them most affectionate, and 

 faithful to a degree unobservable in 

 other dogs ; and in case of illness their 

 gratitude is touching. — The Twentieth 

 Century Dog. 



Yo San (i. e., Miss Yo) is brown and 

 white in color ; weight, about six 

 pounds ; age four years ; has color- 

 sense well developed ; prefers pale blue, 

 and is fond of silks and of watching 

 the landscape for hours when traveling 

 by rail. In France last year she begged 

 every day to go riding through the 



A JAPANESE SPANIEL— YO SAN. 

 See Poem by Dr. P>ell, page 336 of the number for January. 



abundant feathering" on the tail and 

 legs. The head large in proportion, 

 with broad, dome-shaped skull. The 

 nose is quite flat and level with the 

 forehead. (Large, expressive and 

 tender eyes usually brown). — Miss 

 Serena. 



Japs are the cleanest and nicest dogs 

 I have ever known. Mine eat, drink 

 and sleep with me, and I never find 

 any offensive smell from them. They 

 appear to thrive better when treated as 

 children, and mine are very sensitive 

 when scolded, and most affectionate 

 particularly the bitches. — Geo. Liddell. 



Having kept the breed for very many 

 years I can now fancy no other. Their 

 ways are so sweet. I have always 



forests in her little basket attached to 

 the handle bars of a bicycle. She has 

 all the fine and many of the rare 

 "points" of her breed. She is fearless 

 and will attack other dogs and animals 

 three or four times her size. She is 

 very intelligent, is extremely affection- 

 ate to her master and is bad tempered 

 toward others. 



Fondling a Wild Skunk. 



BY GEORGE W. L0CKW00D, LONG RIDGE, 

 CONNECTICUT. 



That even his Satanic Majesty is not 

 always of as somber a hue as repre- 

 sented is a well known saying, and 

 the object of this little sketch is to 

 show that other and less prominent 



