CHAPTER XVIII. 

 THE CHOW-CHOW. 



PERHAPS I may be taken to task for introducing 

 the above Chinese dog in a book purporting to deal 

 with British modern varieties. However, the Chow- 

 chow is now so common amongst us, he has 

 classes specially provided for him at our leading 

 exhibitions, that he could not with any degree of 

 satisfaction be passed entirely over. Mr. Moore 

 shows by his pencil what the dog is like in the flesh 

 as we have him here, but not as he is butchered and 

 hung up for sale in his native country. 



Our Chow-chow a native of the Celestial empire 

 is so called because he is used edibly, " chow- 

 chow " being a " pigeon English " expression for food. 

 At home he is common for that purpose, is butchered 

 in the usual fashion, and may be seen any day 

 hanging up in the meat shops in Canton and else- 

 where ; and the flesh looks very nice and dainty 

 too. As a fact, the Chinese do not give their dogs 

 so much animal food as we give ours, feeding them 



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