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an all-round house dog and companion. In the 

 writer's estimation this type of dog, for the par- 

 ticular position in life, so to speak, he is to oc- 

 cupy, could not in any way be improved, and 

 the mental qualities that accompany the physical 

 characteristics (which are particularly specified 

 in the first chapter) are of such inestimable 

 value that any possible change would be detri- 

 mental. It may be observed that it was the dogs 

 of this type that have led the van everywhere 

 in the days when he was practically unknown 

 outside of the state in which he originated. 

 "Monte," "Druid Vixon," "Bonnie," "Revilo 

 Peach," and dogs of their conformation possessed 

 a type of interesting individuality that blazed 

 the way east, west, north and south. Does any 

 one imagine that the so-called terrier type one so 

 often hears of, and which a large number of peo- 

 ple are apparently led today to believe to be 

 "par excellence," the correct thing, would have 

 been capable of so doing? No one realizes more 

 fully than the writer the fact that the bully type 

 can be carried too far, and great harm will 

 inevitably ensue, but the swing of the pendu- 

 lum to the exaggerated terrier type will in time, 

 I firmly believe, ring in his death knell. It is 

 a source of wonderment to me that numbers of 

 men who don the ermine can distribute prizes to 

 the weedy specimens, shallow in muzzle, light in 



