30 Modern Dogs. 



name for themselves, and able to revolutionise the 

 variety. Some of the old " doggy men " said this 

 new breed were soft and could not fight. " Can't 

 they?" said Hinks, when talking to a lot of his 

 London friends at the Holborn Horse Repository dog 

 show in May, 1862. " I think they can." " Well," 

 said one of the London school, " let's make a 

 match." Hinks, nothing loth, did make a match, 

 and backed his bitch Puss that day she had won 

 first prize in her class for ^5 and a case of 

 champagne, against one of the short-faced patched 

 dogs similar in weight. The fight came off the 

 same evening at Bill Tupper's well-known rendezvous 

 in Long Acre. It took Puss half-an-hour to kill her 

 opponent, and so little the worse was she for her 

 encounter that she appeared on the bench next 

 morning, a few marks on her cheeks and muzzle 

 being the only signs of the determined combat in 

 which she had been the principal over night. When 

 accounts of this became bruited abroad, although 

 it was not generally believed, the popularity of the 

 11 long faced " dog was established. This, however, 

 is somewhat of a digression. 



Birmingham in 1864 followed the example of the 

 London committee in providing a class for bull 

 terriers, and it had an excellent entry of twenty-eight. 

 Here Hinks won first prize with Madman, and 



