CHAPTER XL 

 THE BLACK PUG. 



HERE is a new variety, which has certainly 

 appeared and obtained identity as such within the 

 past two or three years, although we must go back a 

 little further for the time when a few specimens were 

 occasionally exhibited in our show rings; these being 

 the property of the late Lady Brassey, and they 

 were first shown at Maidstone in 1886. Perhaps to 

 form a direct contrast to these early specimens, 

 some kind of an attempt had been made to produce 

 white pugs ; but herein success was not achieved, the 

 nearest approach thereto being one that a couple of 

 years ago was shown in New York, and another sent 

 to the Birmingham show in 1892, by Miss Dalziel, of 

 Woking, but neither was of that snowy whiteness 

 which one would require, and both I should take to 

 be more " sports " than anything else. Still I do 

 not see any reason why white pugs could not be 

 produced by judicious crossing with the palest fawn 

 specimens, with a slight dash of white bulldog or bull 

 terrier to assist matters. However, this is digression. 



