CHAPTER XXXVIII 



THE BOSTON TERRIER 



LTHOUGH the raw material was imported from England 

 the Boston terrier was "made in America," and that within 

 the memory of men who are a far way from being in their 

 dotage. A little over thirty years ago Mr. Robert C. 

 Hooper of Boston purchased a dog from William O'Brien, 

 of that city, which became known in pedigrees as Hooper's Judge. It is 

 supposed that this dog was imported, but nothing is known as to his breeding, 

 though he was undoubtedly of the half-bred bull and terrier type used for 

 fighting. He has been described as a dog well up on his legs, dark brindle, 

 with a blazed face and weighing a little over thirty pounds. From this 

 dog and a bitch of equally unknown pedigree, but showing more bulldog 

 in her formation, owned by Mr. Edward Burnett of Southboro, Mass., and 

 named Gyp, came the dog always known as Wells's Eph. This dog is 

 described as weighing about twenty-eight pounds, dark brindle, evenly 

 marked with white on face. In type he favoured his dam, being low on 

 the legs. Wells's Eph was bred to a bitch named Tobin's Kate, of unknown 

 breeding, smaller than any of those already mentioned, her weight being 

 given as twenty pounds. Like the others she was a brindle, the shade being 

 a rich yellow or golden. One of the results of this mating was Barnard's 

 Tom, who stands as the first pillar of the stud book in connection with 

 Boston terriers. 



These dogs were not called Boston terriers, but were first of all lumped 

 in with the bull terriers. We have before us a copy of the first catalogue 

 of a Boston show, that of the Massachusetts Kennel Club of 1878, and in 

 it Class 31 was for bull terriers. There were eighteen entries, and among 

 them appear Barnard's Nellie, white and brindle, three years, imported 

 stock, price $75. Mr. Barnard also entered his Kate, and another entry 

 is that of Atkinson's Tobey, a brother of Barnard's Tom. Tobey was then 

 ten months old and he was not the brilliant success at stud which his brother 

 Tom was. Of course Mr. Prescott Lawrence had to dabble in this breed 



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