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disposition to lankiness of build and weakness in formation of head 

 and muzzle. By careful mating with good-headed, compactly built 

 fawns, however, the black variety soon improved, and to-day is in 

 great demand. Its points are the same as those for fawns (colour 

 excepted). It must be entirely black, free from white hairs anywhere. 

 When the coat is about to be shed, it has a disposition to turn rusty 

 in colour, but this vanishes with the new coat. Fig. 116 illustrates 

 a present-day champion, and has been kindly lent by the Editor 

 of the Illustrated Kennel News. 



White Pugs did not win any friends when a few of them were 



FIG. 116. BLACK PUG CHAMPION IMPI. 



benched some years back. The late Mr. Hugh Dalziel, who 

 interested himself in this sub-variety, considered they were too light 

 in build to please connoisseurs ; but this fault might have disappeared 

 with time, as it did with the black variety. Anyway, we never see 

 any exhibited now, or hear of them being bred. Rough-coated or 

 long-haired Pugs are not very numerous, but they have appeared 

 most frequently in the kennels owned by Mrs. Tulk and Miss 

 Garniss. Only at intervals do they appear ; and they always come 

 from the strain owning Moss and Lamb as ancestors. These two 

 dogs were said to have been " captured " at Pekin well on to fifty 

 years ago, and it is considered possible they may have had in their 



