2o8 Modern Dogs. 



bulldogs. But I believe that there must have been 

 bulldogs in England long prior to the seventeenth 

 century. 



Bulldogs were ostensibly dogs for bull-baiting, 

 and as this brutal diversion was known to be in 

 vogue as early as 1209, there must have been bull- 

 dogs then. Such animals as were used for actual 

 work were quite unlike the modern manufactured 

 article, which has undoubtedly suffered by the 

 discontinuance of the amusement. There was no 

 use for him with bulls, so he had to be bred for 

 fancy purposes alone. Huge, broad heads became 

 the rage, legs widely bowed were in favour, and from 

 an active dog, that was able to seize a bull by the 

 nose and keep his hold there, he has come to be an 

 animal that has to go in training at a seaside resort 

 before he is able to walk four miles an hour. 



I must write of dogs as I find them at the 

 present time, and, to show the state to which an 

 endeavour to breed for exaggeration in certain points 

 has brought the bulldog, reproduce the following 

 account of a walking match between two crack 

 bench winners, which took place in the summer of 

 1893. There had been a brindled dog shown with 

 extraordinary success at that time, for which his 

 owner, Mr. S. Woodiwiss, was reported to have 

 given ^250 the greatest amount of money ever 



