Modern Dogs. 



perience of breeding the colours together, I may 

 say here that I have found the puppies come either 

 a distinct black or red. 



" A writer in the Field some time ago said that 

 white specimens were not uncommon, and he 

 described these Chow-chows as useless excepting 

 as guards or watch dogs, and said they were great 

 cowards. It may be interesting to mention that 

 some years since a well-known breeder and judge 

 of Scottish terriers, residing in Scotland, was good 

 enough to tell me of a pair of puppies which had 

 just arrived by vessel, and which were supposed 

 to be Esquimaux. I decided to buy them, but 

 on arrival I saw they were crossed with some- 

 thing, and on examining their mouths was satisfied 

 there was Chinese blood in them. These puppies 

 were a very light fawn. When old enough I mated 

 the bitch with a black dog of my own. In due 

 course she presented me with five puppies, all jet 

 black, but my disappointment was great on finding 

 that not one of them possessed the special feature 

 of the breed a black, or rather blue-black, tongue. 

 My first impulse was to destroy the litter, but for- 

 tunately I did not adopt this course, as in a short 

 time I observed small black spots, which graduallv 

 increased till the tongue became the correct colour. 

 This, however, is not always the case, and in many 



