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Georges from William III., and " the Willoughly " being, as above described, a more 

 recent importation direct from Holland and Vienna. Both strains are equally 

 lively in temperament, moderately tricky and companionable, but their chief 

 advantage as pets is that they are unusually free from smell, both in breath and 

 coat. 



Since the decade above mentioned, both strains have been crossed with the 

 bulldog, with a view to enlarge the skull and shorten the face ; and the consequence 

 is that many of the best dogs in other respects are underhung, splay-footed, and, 

 what is of more consequence, savage in temper. There is also a tendency in this 

 cross to increase the size ; but I confess that the largest prize-winning pug which I 

 have yet seen (namely, Mr. Foster's Comedy, first prize winner at Birmingham, 

 1877), was perfectly free from all signs of the bull cross in other respects. Though 

 shown in a large and excellent class, Comedy was so perfect in shape, and so full of 

 quality, in spite of his over-size, that the judges (Messrs. Hedley and Peter Eden) 

 at once selected him for premier honours ; and I perfectly agreed with the decision. 

 Within the last ten years the two strains have been much crossed inter se, and it is 

 difficult to find either a pure Willoughly pug or one in whose pedigree there is no 

 line of that strain. Mrs. Bligh Monk, of Coley Park, Keading ; Mr. E. J. Poer, of 

 Limerick ; Mr. Annandale, of Edinburgh ; Mr. Jolliffe Tuffnell, of Dublin ; Captain 

 Digby Boycott, of London ; Mr. Sharpies, of Manchester ; and Mrs. Mayhew, of 

 Twickenham, have been the most successful exhibitors of late years the last 

 named having introduced a strain of the Chinese pug, but with what view I am 

 at a loss to know, as there is no desirable point shown in excess in the importation 

 from the Celestial Empire. 



The following are the 



Value. 



Head 10 



Ears 5 



Eyes 5 



Moles 5 



Mask,vent and wrinkles 10 



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POINTS or THE MODERN PUG. 



Value. 



Trace 5 



Colour 10 



Coat 10 



Neck 5 



Body 10 



40 

 Grand Total 100, 



Value. 



Legs and feet 10 



Tail 10 



Symmetry and size ... 5 



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1. The head (value 10) should have a round monkey -like skull, and should be 

 of considerable girth, but in proportion not so great as that of the bulldog. The 

 face is short, but, again, not " bully " or retreating, the end being cut off square ; 

 and the teeth must be level if undershot, a cross of the bull is almost always to be 

 relied on. Tongue large, and often hanging out of the mouth ; but this point is not 

 to be accepted for or against the individual. The cheek is very full and muscular. 



2. The ears (value 5) are small, vine-shaped, and thin, and should lie moderately 

 flat on the face (formerly they were invariably closely cropped, but this practice is 

 now quite out of fashion) ; they are black, with a slight mixture of fawn hair. 



