THE BULLDOG 



STURDY, thick-set, uncompromising in appearance, the Bull- 

 dog is supposed to represent our national characteristics. 

 Certainly he has many admirable qualities, among which are 

 to be numbered great devotion to his master or mistress, 

 and an unfailing kindliness of temper unless insult be offered 

 to those he loves. He is an excellent house dog, his worst 

 habits being a tendency to snort and snore. He shares 

 with the Fox Terrier the honour of being the most popular 

 show dog of the day, and several have been sold of recent 

 years for the goodly sum of 1000. In choosing one care 

 has to be exercised in seeing that one is not buying a 

 deformity that cannot walk a mile. A Bulldog can be 

 active, and he can also be the reverse. Of this you may be 

 sure, he is not so ugly as he is credited with being. 



HIS WORK 



For many years past humanitarian feelings have decreed 

 that the Bulldog shall be among the ranks of the un- 

 employed. His occupation has gone, with cock-fighting 

 and other diversions of a strenuous age. 



HIS POINTS 



Skull very large, broad, and square, flat on the top, with 

 a deep stop between the eyes ; the nose large and black, 

 and set so far back as to come almost between the eyes ; 

 the jaw broad and square, the lower projecting beyond the 

 upper and turning well up ; the flews thick and deep ; 

 the head and face well wrinkled ; eyes wide apart ; ears 

 high on the head, small and thin ; back and neck short 

 and powerful ; chest very wide, with fore-legs short, heavy 

 in bone, and set wide apart ; hind -legs longer than the 

 front, giving an arched appearance to the loins ; tail set 

 on low, and pointing downwards. 



