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STUDIES IN BULLDOG EXPRESSION. 

 Pliolcgraph by T. Rudcy, Wantage. 



CHAPTER II. 

 THE BULLDOG. 



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DICK (BORN 185S1 

 EV TOMMY SLUT. 



scendant of the 



BY \V. J. STfBBS. 



" Well, of all dogs it stands confessed 

 Your English bull-dogs are the best, 

 I say it, and will set my hand lo't, 

 Camden records it, and I'll stand to't." 



Christopher Sm.\rt, 1722-1770. 



/^T^HE BuUdog is 

 I loiown to have 

 been domi- 

 ciled in this country 

 for several centuries, 

 but many theories 

 are advanced as to 

 the origin of the 

 breed. 



It is generally ad- 

 mitted to be a de- 

 Alaunt," Mastive, or 

 Bandog, described by Dr. Caius, who states 

 that "the mastyve or Bandogge is vaste, 

 huge, stubbome, ougly and eager, of a 

 hevy and burthenous body, and therefore 

 but of little swiftnesse, terrible and fright- 

 ful to beholde, and more fearce and 

 fell than any Arcadian curre. They are 

 called (in Latin) Villatici, because they 



are appoynted to watche and keepe farms 

 places and country cotages sequestered from 

 common recourse and not abutting upon 

 other houses by reason of distaunce. They 

 are serviceable against the Foxe and Badger 

 to drive wilde and tame swyne out of 

 medowes, pastures, glebelandes, and places 

 planted with fruite, to bayte and take the 

 bull by the eare when occasion so requireth. 

 One dogge, or two at the uttermost, sufficeth 

 for that purpose, be the bull never so mon- 

 sterous, never so fearce, never so furious, 

 never so steame, never so untameable. For 

 it is a kinde of dogge capable of courage, 

 violent and vahaunt, striking could feare 

 into the harts of men but standing in 

 feare of no man, in so much that no weapons 

 will make him shrincke nor abridge his 

 boldnes. Our English men (to th' intent 

 that theyr dogges might be the more fell 



