The Boston Terrier 525 



deserved all the encouragement the American Kennel Club could 

 give it. 



We have introduced the foregoing for present-day exhibitors, who 

 imagine that the cropped-eared, screw-tailed terrier they now show is the 

 original type of the Boston terrier. Remember that it is little more than ten 

 years since all that we have now recounted took place. Mr. Hook was 

 one of the oldest exhibitors of the round-headed bull and terrier and person- 

 ally knew the characteristics of all the old dogs. Following up this line we 

 give a copy of an undated letter of Mr. John P. Barnard's which we have 

 had in our possession for many years. It was, we think, written about the 

 time of the Hook episode, and is addressed to Mr. William Wade of Pitts- 

 burg, who sent it to us at the time: 



"Dear Mr. Wade: There have been no bulldogs or bull terriers used 

 in breeding the Boston terrier for the last twenty-five years. The original 

 dog, Hooper's Judge, was a small dog, about thirty pounds weight, and was 

 very similar to my dog Mike. Wells's Eph was a son of Judge, and was 

 bred to a bitch of a kind very common here twenty years ago. They were 

 brought out from England by men employed on English steamers. Theii 

 weights ran from ten to twenty pounds, and they were round-headed with 

 short, pointed noses. Dr. Watts of Boston has several old paintings of 

 this breed of dogs that are surely forty years old. 



"My old dog Tom was bred from Eph out of one of these bitches and 

 he was the first dog to be put to stud. I bred him to a number of his 

 daughters, and by so doing established a breed that would breed to a type. 



"Hooper's Judge was the only dog that could possibly have had any 

 bulldog blood in him and none since will be found in the Boston terrier. 



" I exhibited Tom in a show given by John Stetson before the Massa- 

 chusetts Kennel Club shows were held, and before a bulldog or a bull terrier 

 had ever been in Boston. 



"The Boston terrier in my mind should be very close in appearance 



to a small bulldog, with the exception of the lay-back of the bull. I differ 



in this with the Boston Terrier Club, and claim that in trying to make the 



breed fine they will lose skull and bone and the characteristics of the breed. 



"Very respectfully yours, JOHN P. BARNARD." 



Mr. Barnard was not quite correct in saying that at the time he wrote 



