CHARACTER rsrfcs or THE PUG. 



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would be procured. As a matter of fact, though these advantages may be gained, the results 

 of the cross arc frequently disfigured by being out at shoulders and by badly-carried tails, 

 which are the two principal defects which a Bull cross is likely to bring about. Nor are 

 such experiments likely to benefit the Bull-dog, for Pug blood is in its turn plainly visible 

 in some of the breed, especially the fawn and fallow-smut ones, which one comes across. 

 Another trace the Bull-dog often leaves behind it in the Pug is in the carriage of the 

 ears, which often fall back, as is the case in the "rose" Bull-dog ear, and do not drop down 

 the sides of the head as should be in the case of a Pug. The carriage of the ears is, how- 

 ever, a modern introduction into the scale of points of the breed, as up to a few years 



HKAI) OF PUG. (From an old Etignving.) 



back Pugs used to be shown with their ears closely cropped, as in the case of the 

 Dalmatian. 



The method of cropping which was formerly adopted can be gathered from the subjoined 

 woodcut of a famous Pug which existed many years ago. The dog may not perhaps come 

 up to that degree of perfection which has been reached by such modern specimens 2s 

 Mr. Lewis's Tooley, Mrs Monck's Sambo and Darkie, Mrs. Kingsbury's Tip, or Mr. Nunn's 

 Baron, but there are many good points in the formation of his skull which we should be 

 glad to see oftener in the present day. The extreme width of his muzzle in proportion to 

 the size of the skull is a point which must recommend itself to all breeders ; and the eyes, 

 though possibly not so soft as those of modern prize-winners, cannot fail to be admired on 

 account of their size and shape. 



As a rule the Pug is, though decidedly aristocratic in his behaviour, not a remarkably 



