36 A MANUAL OF TOY DOGS 



delicacy could surely be overcome with comparative 

 ease. In appearance, Japs are extremely fascinating. 

 Their colours are black and white, red and white, and 

 yellow or lemon and white the latter two combina- 

 tions being the rarest ; their coloured ears, like butter- 

 fly wings, the short-faced head between forming the 

 loly, their heavily fringed feet, and their plumed tail 

 making up a charming and piquant tout ensemble. They 

 are frequently confounded with Pekingese, which are 



PEKINGESE. 

 " Foo-Kwai oj Newnham" owned by Mrs, W. H. Herbert. 



coloured, red or yellow, with black markings, 

 and whose ears are not set on at the same angle. A 

 Pekingese pup is perhaps the very prettiest puppy going, 

 before it reaches the lanky stage, which breeders of all 

 toys, except perhaps pugs and Schips, know means the 

 utter indifference, even scorn, of the uninitiated public. 

 The prices of Japs rule fairly high, and a good puppy 

 cannot be obtained, unless by special luck, for less than 

 10 los. ; a larger female pup for a trifle less perhaps 



