574 THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DOG. 



in unmistakable terms that serious trouble would instantly 

 befall anyone who might attempt to harm his young 

 proteges. 



Next in order of date to this picture (within my obser- 

 vation) comes the picture in Bingley's "Memoirs of Brit- 

 ish Quadrupeds," published in 1809, wherein a dog of 

 admirable Mastiff type, in body and legs, is shown; but this 

 specimen appears too much tucked in at the flanks, and 

 with the most peculiar of heads, the muzzle being far 

 shorter, in proportion t the general size of the dog, than in 

 the most snub-nosed pet of the fancy of to-day (or rather 

 of a few years since), while the skull is preposterously long 

 in just the same ratio that the muzzle is short. It may be 

 said that Hewitt, the artist who illustrated Bingley, had 

 drawn on his fancy, and that the picture was no likeness; 

 but such a position is untenable, by reason of the striking 

 fidelity to life of the pictures of British wild animals 

 shown in the same book, and drawn by the same artist. It- 

 may therefore reasonably be assumed that his picture of 

 the Mastiff was true to the subject. Thus it appears that 

 the second type of Mastiff was a long-skulled, short- 

 muzzled one. Coming on down through the Mastiff ages, 

 we reach the pictures of Lukey's Bruce I. and II., Lukey's 

 Lion, Lord Waldegrave's Couchez, and other fountains of 

 our present Mastiff blood, and we find dogs of what w r ould 

 now be called a long-faced type Couchez showing in his 

 portrait a most savage temper, while Lion appears singu- 

 larly gentle and noble in his expression. Possibly I am 

 in error in noting these last two dogs among English 

 Mastiffs, as both came from Mount St. Bernard; but, 

 for all that, they were of high English Mastiff type, 

 strengthening the claim of Mr. Wynn, Colonel Gamier, 

 and others, that the English and Alpine Mastiff only 

 differed in point of size, the latter being the larger. 

 The next type illustrated is the one that would now be 

 called "houndy," a "lurcher," etc., as evidenced by the 

 famous Old Champion Turk, Miss Kale's Lion, Colonel, 

 and Salisbury. These dogs had long muzzles, deep and blunt, 



