The Bull Terrier 451 



his hiding place, capered and barked and rejoiced. When he was unable, 

 towards the end of his life, to attend me when on horseback, he used to watch 

 for my return, and the servant used to tell him his master was coming down 

 the hill or through the moor, and although he did not use any gesture or 

 explain his meaning, Camp was never known to mistake him, but either 

 went out at the front to go up the hill, or at the back to get down to the moor 

 side. He certainly had a singular knowledge of spoken language." 



What the bull terrier of that period resembled we show by reproduc- 

 tions of some prints, published from 1820 to 1830. The badger drawing by 

 Alken is a fancy sketch, but he was a first-class reproducer of sporting 

 scenes of this character, and in all probability the participants are portraits 

 of well-known sporting men of the day, so we may accept the dogs as being 

 typical. The black markings near the tails on both dogs suggest fox ter- 

 riers as much as bull terriers, but they are of the same type as the illustration 

 Pierce Egan wrote the description for, that drawing being also by Alken. 

 For that reason we place this with the bull terriers. Of the other two 

 engravings there is no doubt whatever, and that of Venom is surprisingly 

 good. Her short tail indicates the bulldog cross, which is much more 

 apparent in the portrait of Brutus, from a painting by Edwin Cooper. 



Birmingham was the city where the show bull terrier was brought to 

 perfection. The most of the good imported dogs have been from that 

 district, and the largest exporter to this country is Fred Hinks of that city, 

 whose father was also a bull-terrier breeder for many years. Bull terriers 

 in England got a hard set-back when the anti-cropping rule of the English 

 Kennel Club went into effect a few years ago, and to the eye of any person 

 accustomed to the cropped dog those with natural ears look soft, cheeky 

 and anything but the smart bull terrier of the old days. Old fanciers gave 

 the breed up, and although there are some signs of revival, it is uphill work, 

 with ears of all sorts as to shape, size and carriage. Bloomsbury Burge is 

 claimed to be about the best dog in England now, and our readers can see 

 what a good uncropped bull terrier looks like from his photograph. Even 

 if the Englishmen still had their dogs cropped they could not show classes 

 at any show the equal of our annual New York display. We do not claim 

 that our best dog will always be a better one than the best English dog, but 

 we can show more good American-bred bull terriers at New York than are 

 shown throughout the whole of England in the entire year. It is the old 

 story of breeding more, and therefore having more to select from. 



