20 Modern Dogs. 



quite frequently occur that show in the round, 

 broad skull, sunken eyes, and, shall I say, the 

 undershot jaw, a decided leaning to the bulldog 

 in expression. Some admirers of the breed say 

 the mastiff ought to be undershot, and that he was 

 so originally. A perfect mastiff ought to be as 

 level in his teeth as a terrier. He should have a 

 distinctive character of his own, not of the bulldog 

 as above described, nor of the hound with a long 

 square face, with loose skin under his throat, and 

 deeply pendulous dewlaps. 



Such dogs as I have in my mind bore none of 

 these defects. They looked mastiffs pure and 

 simple, and were such from the end of their noses 

 to the tips of their tails. As my paragon I always 

 took that grand dog Turk, who was bred by the 

 late Miss Aglionby at Esthwaite Hall, near Hawks- 

 head, one of the Lancashire portions of the English 

 lake district. This fine dog, born in 1865, was 

 one of an extraordinary litter by Mr. E. Field's 

 King from the breeder's Hilda, the one whelping 

 including Wolf, which his fair owner considered the 

 better dog, Knight Templar, Emperor, and Turk. 

 Thus there were four dogs in the same litter the 

 like of which could scarcely be bred in twenty 

 litters to-day. How these dogs won in classes that 

 were far stronger then than now, and for years 



