58 CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE BULL TERRIER. 



Tins is a smaller variety than the bull tlog ; it is more lively, and very ferocious. It has the ears 

 always pointe 1, and the colour is very commonly white, with some black about the head. A print is 

 extant of a dog of this kind, luvmed "Pincher;" he was considered the trustiest and fiercest of his 

 race. When about four years old, he had fought thirty battles all of which he won killing ihe of 

 his opponents. He was an unrivalled rat-catcher, and weighed thirty-two pounds; his colour was 

 white, with black about the head. 



Some years ago, there were, at Bishop's Stortford, in Hertfordshire, two dogs, who belonged to 

 nobody, and lived upon the quay of the canal pr river. They took the great est delight in rat-hunting ; 

 and, when the maltsters went about at night to see all safe, the dogs invariably followed at their heels. 



Their mode of proceeding was very ingenious. As soon as the door was unlocked, one rushed in, 

 and coursed round the warehouse, not chasing any rat which might start, but pursuing his way among 

 the malt. The other stood at the door, and snapped at the rats as they endeavoured to escape, and has 



TIIK HULL TERRIKR. 



been known to kill six rats all of which rushed to the door at the same time. The next room they 

 came to, they have been known to change posts ; the one which hunted before standing at the door, 

 and seizing its prey. By this means, jthese two dogs have killed, in one malting, upwards of 2,000 rats 

 ill the course of one yeai-. One of them killed sixty-seven rats in less than five minutes ! 



It has been usual to consider the pug dog as a degenerate variety of the bull dog, but the correct- 

 ness of the theory may be doubted. It has, indeed, somewhat the aspect of a small bull dog, but the 

 similarity is more in superficial appearance than in reality. The pug is a little round-headed, short- 

 nosed dog, with the muzzle singularly abbreviated, and a tightly-twisted tail. It is snarling and ill- 

 tempered, cowardly, and by no means remarkable for intelligence. It was formerly in great esteem as 

 a pet, but is now little valued, and rarely kept. 



In the last breed we shall notice, the ears are sub-erect ; the muzzle is rather acute ; the jaws are 

 strong; tlie hair is short and wiry; the scent is acute; the habits active; and the intelligence 

 considerable. 



THE ENGLISH TERRIER. 



Tins animal is sleek, wilh a more elegant form, and longer legs ; its colour is black, with tunned limbs, 

 and a t:i.imed spo! over eaeh ,.ye. As to the muzzle, the ear, the eye, and the power of smell, it 

 resembles t.lie Seoteli terrier. 



