132 THE BOSTON TERRIER 



dogs should follow the standard and not the 

 standard follow the dogs. It is needless to add 

 that I do not share in the pessimistic view taken 

 by many lovers of the dog who think he will 

 be permanently injured by the differences of 

 opinion that prevail as to the type, etc., and the 

 personalities that sometimes mar the showing 

 of the dog, for I am of the same opinion as was 

 probably felt by the great fish who had to give 

 up Jonah, "that it is an impossible feat to keep 

 a good man (or dog) down," and that instead of 

 falling off, as one writer intimates, he will fall 

 into the good graces of a larger number of peo- 

 ple than has heretofore fallen to the lot of any 

 variety of man's best friend. 



