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CROSSED BREEDS. 



which is only one quarter bull, shows a great deal of the shape 

 peculiar to that side ; and it is not till the third or fourth cross 

 that the terrier shape comes out predominant : but this is all a 

 matter of chance, and the exact reverse may just as probably hap- 



" Madman," Bull-Terrier. 



pen, if the terrier was quite free from the stcn'n of the buli, which is 

 seldom the case ; and this may account for the great predominance 

 of that side in most cases, as we shall see in investigating the 

 subject of breeding for the kennel in the next Book. The field 

 fox-terrier, used for bolting the fox when gone to ground, was of 



