CHAPTER LXIII 



THE PUG 



THE Pug type of head is common to several varieties 

 which in all probability were nearly related at some 

 time or other. The inference is that the Pug reached 

 Great Britain from China, but that must have been 

 a good many years ago, as he was much favoured 

 by eighteenth -century ladies. After lapsing in popu- 

 larity, he was revived in far. better quality between 

 1840 and 1850 by the Lady Willoughby de Eresby 

 of that day and others. Lady Willoughby succeeded 

 in establishing a fawn strain, which bore her name 

 until quite recent times. Indeed, we still hear people 

 speak of their dogs as being pure Willoughby. This 

 nomenclature is, however, scarcely justifiable now. 

 As Dr. Tulk has explained : " There used formerly 

 to be two main strains of this breed, viz., the Wil- 

 loughby and the Morrison. The Willoughby strain 

 was of a beautiful silver-grey colour, with a black 

 trace down the back, and the Morrison strain was 

 apricot -fawn, the trace down the back not being so 

 black as in the Willoughby variety. These two 

 strains have now become merged into one, but it is a 

 singular thing that the best specimens have generally 

 been up to now inclined to be apricot in colour." The 



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