The Pug. 257 



I should not be surprised to find that during the 

 early part of this century some of the small-sized 

 bull bitches were mated with a pug dog in order to 

 produce that fawn or " fallow smut " bulldog which 

 some fanciers admire very much indeed. But if 

 the cross ever was there, such has been so carefully 

 bred away that nothing of it remains, excepting, may 

 be, in the hue of our national canine representa- 

 tive. Such bulldogs as Guido and Queen Mab 

 have, perhaps, as nearly as anything approached 

 the pug dog in hue, but although they are fallow 

 or fawn smuts, there is nothing about their character 

 or appearance to indicate in the slightest degree 

 that pug blood might be running in their veins. 



As to the origin of the pug, Buffon, one of the 

 most unreliable of naturalists, says that the pug is 

 but a "modified bulldog" from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, it being imported into Holland when the 

 Cape was a Dutch settlement, and soon became a 

 favourite pet with the ladies. That the country 

 which has since been responsible for the Schipperke 

 also gave us in the first instance our pugs, I 

 have no doubt whatever. It was very fashionable 

 in England soon after the accession of our 

 William III., he and Queen Mary II., no doubt 

 bringing sundry specimens over with them as part 

 and parcel of their retinue. History tells us that 



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