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BRITISH DOGS 



considered to represent a Pug of the period namely, the latter part 

 of the fourteenth century. 



When Dr. Caius wrote his famous work, translations of which 

 have appeared from 1576 to our own day, we get the first attempt 

 at anything like a system of classification of the breeds that then 

 were known. Unfortunately, however, we have to rely purely upon 

 description, the work in Latin and its translations being devoid 

 of illustrations. Caius, or Kaye, refers to eight distinct varieties 

 of hunting dogs Harrier, Terrier, Blood- 

 hound, Gazehound proper, Greyhound (a 

 very swift Gazehound, slim of body, and 

 both rough and smooth coated), Leviner (a 

 kind of Lurcher, a cross between the Har- 

 rier and the Greyhound), Tumbler (a small 

 kind of Greyhound, remarkable for its 

 duplicity), and Night Cur, or Stealer. 



Land, Water, and Toy Spaniels are also 

 described by the Doctor, as are also Sheep- 

 dog, Mastiff, Turnspit, and many others 

 that were apparently mongrels, though from 

 their associations, the work that they were 

 called upon to perform, or even their habits, 

 were accorded names the Butcher's Dog 

 and the Dancer, for instance. 



From Turberville's sporting work we select 

 two illustrations that represent the Spaniels 

 of the latter part of the sixteenth century 



FIG. 13. A MEDIAEVAL 

 DALMATIAN. 



FIG. 14. A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY LAPDOG. 



(Fig. 15) and the Hounds of the same period (Fig. 16), but whether 

 Bloodhounds or Foxhounds is not by any means clear, though they 

 seem to have a closer affinity to the former than to the latter. 



No survey of British dogs, however scanty it may be, would be 

 complete without an allusion to the dogs that were depicted so 

 faithfully by the old masters like Vandyck, from the prototype of 

 the modern Mastiff (Fig. 17) to the Toy Terriers (Fig. 18) and 

 Toy Spaniels that brightened perhaps the early days of the unhappy 

 Charles I. 



Allusion has already been made to the close association of dog 

 and man, though when or how the intimacy sprung, which mutual 



