THE BOSTON TERRIER 9 



to have been made acquainted with his origin, 

 a brief survey may be of service. Although Bos- 

 ton rightly claims the honor of being the birth- 

 place of the Boston terrier, still I think the 

 original start of the dog was in England, for the 

 first dog that was destined to be the ancestor 

 of the modern Boston terrier was a dog named 

 Judge, a cross between an English bull and bull 

 terrier, imported from the other side and owned 

 by Mr. R. C. Hooper, and known as Hooper's 

 Judge. 



On my last visit to England I found that quite 

 a number of dogs have been bred in this way, 

 viz., a first cross between the bull and terrier, 

 especially in the neighborhood of Birmingham 

 in the middle of England; but these dogs are 

 no more like the Boston terrier than an ass is 

 like a thoroughbred horse. Judge was a dark 

 brindle, with a white stripe in face, nearly even 

 mouthed, weighing about thirty-two pounds, and 

 approximating more to the bull than the terrier 

 side. He was mated to a white, stocky built, 

 three-quarter tail, low stationed bitch, named 

 Gyp (or Kate), owned by Mr. Edward Burnett 

 of Southboro. Like Judge, she possessed a 

 good, short, blocky head. It may not be out of 

 place to state here that some few years ago, on 

 paying a visit to Mr. Burnett at Deerfoot Farm, 

 Southboro, he told me that in the early days he 



