CHAPTER XXX 



The Bull Terrier 



T THE beginning of the nineteenth century we have the 

 first information regarding the cross of the bulldog on the 

 terrier, though there is no reference to the outcome as being 

 anything but simply terriers until about 1820. In the first 

 volume of "Annals of Sporting/* published in 1822, there 

 is an article accompanying a picture of a black-and-tan smooth terrier bitch 

 and a patched bull terrier. Pierce Egan, a celebrity as a sporting v^riter, 

 and whose command of new sporting words and phrases would make our 

 entire army of baseball reporters turn green with envy, was the first to draw 

 attention to the breed. It is too long an article to quote in its entirety, so 

 we condense as follows: 



"The Tike most prominent in our view is of that variety, now an 

 established one, which a few years since passed under the denomination 

 of the Bull-Terrier; the bitch [the smooth black and tan] is intended for a 

 full-bred terrier. . . . We are not aware of any new dub for the half- 

 bred bulldog, our present theme, or any substitute as yet, for the term 

 Bull-Terrier. This deficiency, if such it be, is preferable to a congress of 

 the Fancy, or, perchance, to chance medley, another notable instance of ton. 

 The new breed is, beyond question, admirably well adapted to the purpose of 

 a companion and follower to the Swell of either description, whether a walking 

 jockey, or one mounted. ... To return to " elenchi" or rather, the 

 Bull-Terrier, back again, he is a more sprightly and showy animal than 

 either of the individuals from which he was bred, and equally apt for, and 

 much more active in any kind of mischief, as it has been well expressed. 

 . . . The true bred bulldog is but a dull companion and the terrier 

 does not flash much size, nor is sufficiently smart or cocking, the modem 

 mixed dog includes all of these qualities, and is of a pleasant airy temper, 

 without losing any of the fierceness, when needed, of his prototypes; his 

 colours, too, are gay and sightly. . . . Much depends, with respect to 

 the flash appearance of the dog under notice, on the management of his 



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