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attract, and about 1870 the classes for them were 

 discontinued. The London fancy mostly had had 

 them in hand, Harry Orme, Bill Tupper, W. 

 M'Donald all at one time or another showing good 

 specimens ; Violet, Floss, Frank, Tiny, and others 

 being the chief prize winners. It has been said that 

 some of our French visitors took a great fancy to 

 these miniature emblems of British pluck, and 

 through Tupper and Orme secured all the best 

 specimens. Be this as it may, there are few under 

 2olb. bulldogs in Great Britain at the present time, 

 whilst in the land of the Gaul such are by no means 

 uncommon, and quite recently an endeavour has been 

 made to reintroduce the strain here under the mis- 

 leading name of " Toy Bulldogs." Now as our 

 acknowledged weight of a toy dog is not more 

 than from seven to eight pounds at the very most 

 six pounds is much the more correct weight 

 I am surprised that there are show committees who 

 will provide classes for these French bulldogs to be 

 called " toys," going up to 23lb. each in weight. At 

 least this was the limit at a recent exhibition. The 

 foreign specimens shown had enormous spoon-shaped 

 ears, some of the exhibits were fairly well shaped 

 as bulldogs though their expression more favoured 

 the Schipperke. They were but sorry representa- 

 tives of the type Billy Tupper was so fond of in the 



