pretensions to breeding as justifiable. Probably if the French 

 bulldog had never been imported we should have heard nothing of 

 the miniature. Somewhere about 1893 the late Mr. G. R. Krehl 

 exhibited a team of the small Parisians under the name of French 

 Toy Bulldogs, but it did not take long to see that, whatever may 

 have been the origin of these dogs, in the intervening years they 

 had departed very materially from the accepted bulldog character. 

 The wide, upward sweeping underjaw of the national breed was 

 absent, and the ears ! In the eyes of the orthodox these in- 

 dispensable members were everything they should not be. The 

 erect, commonly termed "tulip" or "bat" ear, surmounting the 

 skull of an ordinary bulldog would be an enormity, so after much 

 disputation the rival schools wisely decreed to go divergent ways, 

 and to have their respective favourites christened Miniatures and 

 French. Now that matters have settled down it is incontrovertible 

 that this was the most sensible way out of the difficulty. Light 

 weight and French bulldogs may all have sprung from the English 

 Midlands, but, as a decade or two will suffice to establish a new 

 type, by the time they were expatriated the Gallic dogs had 

 departed in essentials from the type desired by English breeders. 

 Our French friends, unfettered by tradition, and without the correct 

 stamp in their minds, had evolved a creation of their own. There 

 let it rest. 



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