CHAPTER VL 

 BREEDING FOR SIZE. 



When I joined the Boston Terrier Club in 

 1895, there were two classes for weight ithe 

 light weight, from 15 to 23 pounds, and the 

 heavy weight, from 23 to 30 pounds, inclusive. 

 This, of course, has been changed since to three 

 classes the light weight, 12 and not to exceed 

 17 pounds; middle weight class, 17 and not to 

 exceed 22 pounds, and heavy weight, 22 and not 

 to exceed 28 pounds and a class, for Toys, 

 weighing under twelve pounds, has been 

 added. The Boston terrier dog was never 

 intended, in the writer's estimation, to be 

 a dog to be carried in one's pocket, but such 

 an one as the standard calls for, and which 

 the oldest breeders have persistently and con- 

 sistently bred. To my mind the ideal dog is one 

 weighing from 15 pounds for my lady's parlor, 

 to 20 or 25 pounds for the dog intended as a 

 man's companion, suitable to tackle any kind of 

 vermin, and to be an ideal watch dog in the 

 house should any knights of the dark lantern 

 make their nocturnal calls. 



