6 THE BOSTON TERRIER 



for which his native city is so well known have 

 died a natural death, he will be in the early bloom 

 of youth. Yea, in the illimitable future, when 

 the historian McCauley's New Zealander is la- 

 menting over the ruins of that marvelous city 

 of London, he will be accompanied by a Boston 

 terrier, who will doubtless be intelligent enough 

 to share his grief. In reply to the query as to 

 who and what he is, it will be readily recalled 

 that on the birth of possibly the greatest poet 

 the world has ever seen it was stated : 



"The force of nature could no further go, 

 To make a third, she joined the other two." 

 And this applies with equal force to the produc- 

 tion of the Boston terrier. The two old stand- 

 ard breeds of world-wide reputation, the English 

 bulldog and the bull terrier, had to be joined to 

 make a third which we believe to be the peer of 

 either, and the superior of both. The dog thus 

 evolved possesses a type and individuality strictly 

 his own, inherited from both sides of the house, 

 and is a happy medium between these two grand 

 breeds, possessing the best qualities of each. To 

 some the name "terrier" would suggest the form- 

 ation of the dog on approximate terrier lines, 

 but this is as completely erroneous as to imag- 

 ine that the dog should approach in like propor- 

 tion to the bull type. When the dog was in its 

 infancy it was frequently called the Boston bull, 



