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has a wide range, extending pretty much from the 

 east to the west of Europe. In France and Italy it is 

 a favourite with the ladies, and at one period of its 

 existence, but for a short time only, it was known in 

 the former country as the Carlin, owing to its black 

 mask or muzzle, a name given it in honour of a 

 popular harlequin named Carlin. This, of course, 

 was but a passing fancy, and prior to Carlin's popu- 

 larity they had been known as doguins or roquets, 

 but afterwards they obtained the commoner, if less 

 euphonious name of pugs. 



The " Sportsman's Cabinet " (1804) gives an illus- 

 tration of the pug drawn by Reinagle : a cropped dog 

 with a black mask, curled tail, and toying with a 

 much smaller specimen, which, also being cropped, 

 cannot well be a puppy. Thus the inference is 

 conveyed that when the drawing was made there 

 were pugs of two quite distinct sizes, one of which 

 may probably have been I4lb. or more, the other 

 not more than half that weight. Unfortunately, 

 the letterpress accompanying the illustration is 

 meagre in the extreme, if not actually vague. It 

 says that it is asserted by some that the "genuine 

 pug was introduced to this island from Muscovy, 

 and they were originally the undoubted natives of 

 that country. Others assert the pug to have been 

 produced by a commixture between the English 



