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mnke no noise, as is too often done by the regular retriever. 

 They do not carry so well as the larger dog, but in all other 

 respects they are his equal, or perhaps superior ; and from their 

 small size they are admissible to the house, and being constant 

 companions are more easily kept under command ; besides which, 

 the}-- live on the scraps of the house, while the large retriever 

 must be kept tied up at the keeper's, and costs a considerable 

 sum to pay for his food. 



THE BULL-TERRIER. 



Many of our smooth terriers are slightly crossed with the bull- 

 dog, in order to give courage to bear the bites of the vermin 

 which they are meant to attack. When thus bred, the terrier 

 shows no evidence of pain, even though half a dozen rats are 

 hanging on to his lips, which are extremely tender parts of the 

 body, and where the bite of a mouse even will make a badly bred 

 dog yell with pain. In fact, for all the purposes to which a 

 terrier can be applied, the half or quarter cross with the bull, 

 commonly known as the "bull-terrier" or "half-bred do":," is 

 of more value than either of the purely bred progenitors. Such 

 a dog, however, to be useful, must be more than half terrier, or 

 he will be too heavy and slow, too much under-jawed to hold 

 well with his teeth, and too little under command to obey the 

 orders of his master. Sometimes the result of the second cross, 



