BULLDOG. 1-6', 



tliose respects in tlie brute creation. Two remarkable features are 

 met with in this breed : Firstly, they always make their attack at 

 the head ; and, secondly, they do not bite and let go their hold, 

 but retain it in the most tenacious manner, so that they can 

 with difficulty be removed by any force which can be applied. 

 Instances are recorded in which bulldogs have hung on to the 

 lip of the bull (in the old days of baiting this animalj after their 

 entrails had been torn out, and while they were in the last 

 agonies of death. Indeed when they do lay hold of an object, it is 

 always necessary to choke them ofi", without which resource they 

 would scarcely ever be persuaded to let go. From confinement 

 to their kennels, they are often deficient in intelligence, and they 

 can rarely be brought under good control by education ; and, 

 from the same circumstance, they show little personal attach- 

 ment, so that they are almost as likely to attack their friends 

 as their enemies in their fury when their blood is put up. 

 Many a bulldog has pinned his master's leg in revenge for a 

 tread on his foot, and it is very seldom that liberties can be 

 taken with him by any one. There is an old story strongly 

 characteristic of this tendency, which will illustrate this passion 

 for pinning, and also the fondness of the lower orders in some 

 districts for the fighting and baiting propensities of their dogs. 

 A Staffordshire coal-miner was one day playing with his bulldog, 

 an imentered pnppy, when the animal became angry and pinned 

 his master by the nose. On this the by-stanrlers became alarmed, 

 and were going to treat the dog roughly, when the owner inter- 

 fered with — " Doan't touch un. Bill ; let un teaste blood, an it '11 



