34 Modern Dogs. 



June, 1872, and it was the writer who first opened 

 that box and discovered the fatality. 



As there are some who consider this dog the best 

 bull terrier that ever lived, a line or two may be 

 given him. Victor, who, for a wonder, had no 

 pedigree provided, was a 45lb. dog, with a big 

 head, rather bigger and coarser than I liked thus 

 I preferred Young Puss to him a perfectly shaped 

 body, nice dark eyes, good neck and shoulders, 

 and remarkably straight fore legs ; in the latter 

 respect, and at the shoulders, he beat any bull 

 terrier I ever saw. He had a well shaped and 

 well carried stern, which was, however, rather 

 coarse. When Mr. Chorley first bought Victor he 

 was a bad-tempered, evil-disposed dog, but in this 

 respect he improved much whether this arose 

 from the taste for " good ale," which he soon 

 developed, I can scarcely say, but Victor did like 

 ale, and not only would he drink a quart of the 

 beverage, but become intoxicated, and next day 

 evidently ailing with that aching head said to follow 

 a night's debauch, " a glass of bitter" would set 

 the old dog right again. 



Following him as a celebrity, came " patched 

 Victor," a white dog with a fawn or brown patch on 

 one ear, a big dog of undoubted excellence, but 

 when the " patch " did not put him out of the prize 



