50 Modern Dogs. 



insult the bull terrier by omitting to do to him what 

 I have done to other dogs, I give him the following 

 tabulation : 



SCALE OF POINTS. 



Value. 

 Head, including skull, 



muzzle, lips, jaw, teeth 25 



Eyes 10 



Ears (badly cropped or 



otherwise) 5 



4 



Value. 

 Neck and shoulders ... 15 



Back 10 



Legs and feet 15 



Coat 10 



Stern . 10 



60 



Grand Total, 100. 



Colour, pure white for show purposes ; but for 

 ordinary purposes a patched dog, i.e., one with fawn 

 or brindled marks, need not be discarded, nor need 

 fawn or fallow or brindled dogs. The latter are 

 even hardier than the whites, which, whether on 

 account of their colour, or because they are cropped, 

 are often quite deaf. In buying a bull terrier always 

 take care that its sense of hearing is acute. A dog 

 that cannot hear until you pull its tail is no use. One 

 or two very high-class bull terriers in other respects 

 have been almost quite deaf. A notable instance 

 of this is to be found in the dog White Wonder, 

 originally sold as a " deaf dog" to a fancier in 

 America for So. Evidently not passing muster 

 there he came back to this country, and, shown by 



