138 WATCH DOGS, HOUSE DOGS, AND TOY DOGS. 



these old-fashioned sports, yet, I am sure, my brother-sportsmen 

 will see the bad taste of running down a dog who, with all his 

 faults, is not only the most courageous dog, but the most cou- 

 rageous animal in the tcorld. 



The points of a well-bred bulldog are as follows. The head 

 should be round, the skull high, the eye of moderate size, and the 

 forehead well sunk between the eyes, the ears semi-erect and 

 small, well placed on the top of the head, rather close together 

 than otherwise, the muzzle short, truncate, and well furnished with 

 chop ; his back should be short, well arched towards the stern, 

 which should be fine and of moderate length ; many bulldogs 

 have what is called a crooked stern, as though the vertebroc of 

 the tail were dislocated or broken. I am disposed to attribute 

 this to in-breeding. The coat should be fine, though many superior 

 strains are very woolly-coated ; the chest should be deep and 

 broad, the legs strong and muscular, and the foot narrow and well 

 split up like a hare's. 



