270 Modem Dogs. 



It seems strange that with such a modern variety 

 of dog there should be serious doubts about its 

 origin, and there are certainly differences of opinion 

 on the matter. On one side it is stated to have 

 come from the North of China, and that Lady 

 Brassey brought a specimen therefrom when she 

 was touring round the world in her yacht, the " Sun- 

 beam." Again it is said the breed first sprang 

 up accidentally, it being a " sport " produced in the 

 north of London by one of the working fanciers in 

 that locality, who had a particularly dark-coloured 

 strain of the ordinary pug. Mrs. W. H. B. Warner, 

 of Northallerton, at the close of 1893, showed a 

 little black dog which she had brought from Japan, 

 where it was said to be of a rare and choice breed. 

 This is nothing else than a long-coated pug- i.e., 

 pug in character and shape, but with a jacket such 

 as is seen on a Pomeranian. But there is no reason 

 to doubt that in the East there are as many varieties 

 of the dog as we have here. However, it is only in 

 place that this latest of importations should be 

 mentioned here. In, however, suggesting that our 

 black pugs may have come from some such dog as 

 this, it must not be forgotten that they have very 

 short and thin jackets, the antipodes of this little 

 fellow of Mrs. Warner's. 



Personally, I believe there may be truth in both 



