24 Modern Dogs. 



day, and the fighting dogs of that time and now (for 

 this brutal sport is still followed in many places) 

 were and are bull terriers. 



The old-fashioned dog was a much more cumbrous 

 brute than finds favour at the present time, and 

 his colour varied. For instance, James Ward 

 painted one in 1808 that was evidently black and 

 tan, with white on him, a favourite dog of his own, 

 and of a strain highly valued for its courage. This 

 dog had its ears closely cropped, in order, of course, 

 that they might not be in the way of an opponent's 

 teeth when fighting. A little later Marshall painted 

 another bull terrier, black, white, and tan, a dog 

 which the great foxhound authority, Squire Meynell, 

 pronounced to be from one of the best strains he 

 ever knew. 



The back numbers of the Sporting Magazine 

 contain many representations of the bull terrier, 

 and it is stated that Lord Camelford paid 84 guineas 

 for such a dog, which he later on presented to Jem 

 Belcher, " the Sullivan of those days," for it was 

 but meet that the champion fighting biped should 

 own the champion fighting quadruped. This dog 

 was a fawn or fallow specimen, with legs more or 

 less bowed or crooked, and he was no doubt about 

 equally bred between a bull dog and a coarse terrier. 



About this time a dog between 3olb. and 4olb. 



