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pages, and no lady of title was considered to be 

 fully equipped unless she had both in her following. 

 Although the painter himself cannot be said to have 

 been a man about town or a creature of fashion, still 

 he kept his pug dog at least, it is generally under- 

 stood that the dog which appears in the best known 

 portrait of the artist is intended to be a pug, and 

 the fashionable breed in that day ; to me it seems 

 but a nondescript creature. 



In due course special strains came to be produced, 

 and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, of Grimsthorpe, 

 near Lincoln, and Mr. Morrison, of Walham 

 Green, gave particular attention thereto. Of those 

 strains " Stonehenge " says : 



l< After a great deal of trouble a dog was obtained 

 from Vienna which had belonged to a Hungarian 

 countess, but was of a bad colour, being a mixture 

 of the stone fawn now peculiar to the ( Willoughby 

 strain/ and black ; but the combination of these 

 colours was to a certain extent in the brindled form. 

 From accounts which are to be relied on, this dog 

 was about twelve inches high, and of good shape, 

 both in body and head, but with a face much longer 

 than would be approved of by pug fanciers. In 

 1846 he was mated with a fawn bitch imported from 

 Holland, of the desired colour, viz., stone fawn in 

 body, with black mask and trace, but with no indi- 



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