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tearing to pieces the domestic cat, worrying and 

 maiming unfortunate and starving stray dogs sports 

 which cannot fail to be viewed by the humane with 

 horror, and cannot be too severely reprobated. 



Some time ago, no fashionable young man could 

 appear without a bull-terrier at his heels, which Mr 

 Egan, a popular and amusing author of the day, 

 depicted in the following graphic caricature : " The 

 new breed," says he, " which has become so truly the 

 go that no rum or queer kiddy, or man of cash, from 

 Tothil Street in the west, to north-eastern Holloway, 

 far less any swell rising sixteen, with a black, purple, 

 or green Indiaman round his squeeze, the corner of 

 his variegated dab hanging from his pocket, and his 

 pantaloons well creased and puckered, but must have 

 a tike of the new cut at the heels of himself or his 

 prad. The swells of Brunswick and the adjoining 

 squares have dropped even the Newfoundland and 

 the poodle, to be followed by one of a new edition of 

 the dog." 



The late Sir Walter Scott had a very intelligent 

 dog of this breed, and kindly furnished me with the 

 following account of him : " The wisest dog I ever 

 had was what is called the bull-terrier. I taught him 

 to understand a great many words, insomuch that I 

 am positive that the communication betwixt the 

 canine species and ourselves might be greatly en- 

 larged. Camp once bit the baker who was bringing 

 bread to the family. I beat him, and explained the 

 enormity of his offence ; after which, to the last 

 moment of his life, he never heard the least allusion to 

 the story, in whatever voice or tone it was mentioned, 

 without getting up and retiring into the darkest corner 

 of the room, with a great appearance of distress. 

 Then if you said, * The baker was well paid/ or 'The 



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