30 Quadrupeds. 



beasts, should never after fight with any inferior crea- 

 ture.' " 



The following anecdote will show that the Mastiff, 

 conscious of its superior strength, knows how to chastise 

 the impertinence of an inferior: A large Dog of this 

 kind, belonging to a gentleman near Newcastle, being 

 frequently molested by a mongrel, and teased by its con- 

 tinual barking, at last took it up in his mouth, by the 

 back, and, with great composure, dropped it over the 

 quay into the river, without doing any further injury to 

 an enemy so much its inferior. 



THE BULLDOG 



Is much less than the mastiff, but the fiercest of all the 

 Dog kind, and is probably the most courageous creature 

 in the world. His short neck adds to his strength. 

 Those of a brindled colour are accounted the best of the 

 kind : they will run at and seize the fiercest bull with- 

 out barking, making directly at his head, sometimes 

 catch hold of his nose, pin the animal to the ground, and 

 make him roar in a most tremendous manner, nor can 

 they without difficulty, be made to quit their hold. 

 Whenever a Bull-dog attacks in any of the extremities 

 of the body, it is invariably considered a mark of his 

 degeneracy from the original purity of blood. 



Some years since, at a bull -baiting in the north of 

 England, when this barbarous custom was very common, 

 a young man, confident of the spirit of his Dog, laid 

 a wager that he would, at separate times, cut off all the 



