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vast proportion, if not all, have been crossed in this way some 

 generations back, and I firml}'^ believe that >yithout this blood in 

 their veins they are utterly useless. 



It might naturally be supposed by any person who has not been 

 convinced to the contrary, that it would take several crosses to get 

 rid of the heavy form of the bull-dog when united with the light 

 and graceful shape of the greyhound. But on actually trying the 

 experiment it will readily be seen that in the third generation very 

 little trace remains of the bull-dog, while in the fourth there 

 is none whatever apparent in external form. My friend the late 

 Mr. Hanley, of the 2nd Life Guards, was the last who tried the 

 experiment, and having kej)t a daguerreotype of ever}' individual 

 used in it, which he kindly placed at my service, I have been 

 enabled to present to my readers perfectly trustworthy proofs of 

 the correctness of this assertion. The bulldog " Chicken " used 

 was a very high-bred animal, and of him also Mr. Hanley has 

 preserved a daguerreotype, but as his blood is very similar to that 

 of Mr. Stockdale's " Top " (see p. 133), I have not thought it 

 necessary to engrave him. The bitch " Fh^," put to " Chicken," 

 was also highly bred ; but the most satisfactory proceeding will 

 be to insert the whole pedigree at length, as shown on next page. 

 That the illustrative engravings are literal copies of the above- 

 mentioned daguerreotypes is a fact which shoidd be plainly 

 stated ; in the first place, because, without a knowledge of it, the 

 strangely uncouth forms of the first two would hardly be accepted ; 

 and in the second, to account for the attitudes in which the whole 



four are represented. 



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