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time—the young gamesters who patronised 
the prize-ring and the cock-pit—desired to 
have a dog who should do something more 
than kill rats, or unearth the fox, or bolt 
the otter: which accomplishments afforded 
no amusement to the Town. They wanted 
a dog combining all the dash and gameness 
of the terrier with the heart and courage 
and fighting instinct of the Bulldog. Where- 
fore the terrier and the Bulldog were crossed. 
CH. BLOOMSBURY YOUNG KING 
BY BLOOMSBURY KING——BLOOMSBURY NORAH. 
BRED AND OWNED BY MR. J. HAYNES. 
A large type of terrier was chosen, and this 
would be the smooth-coated black-and- 
tan, or the early English white terrier ; 
but probably both were used indifferently, 
and for a considerable period. The result 
gave the young bucks what they required : 
a dog that was at once a determined vermin 
killer and an intrepid fighter, upon whose 
skill in the pit wagers might with confidence 
be laid. 
The animal, however, was neither a true 
terrier nor a true Bulldog, but an un- 
compromising mongrel; albeit he served 
his immediate purpose, and was highly 
valued for his pertinacity, if not for his ap- 
pearance. In 1806 Lord Camelford pos- 
sessed one for which he had paid the very 
high price of eighty-four guineas, and which 
he presented to Belcher, the pugilist. This 
ELEN Eo OOS 
OF THE DOG, 
dog was figured in The Sporting Magazine of 
the time. He was a short-legged, thick- 
set fawn-coloured specimen, with closely 
amputated ears, a broad blunt muzzle, and 
a considerable lay-back ; and this was the 
kind of dog which continued for many years 
to be known as the Bull-and-terrier. He 
was essentially a man’s dog, and was vastly 
in favour among the undergraduates of 
Oxford and Cambridge. 
Gradually the Bulldog element, at first 
so pronounced, was reduced to something 
like a fourth degree, and, with the terrier 
character predominating, the head was 
sharpened, the limbs were lengthened and 
straightened until little remained of the 
Bulldog strain but the dauntless heart 
and the fearless fighting spirit, together 
with the frequent reversion to brindle 
colouring, which was the last outward and 
visible characteristic to disappear 
Within the remembrance of men not yet 
old the Bull-terrier was as much marked 
with fawn, brindle, or even black, as are the 
Fox-terriers of our own period. Bill Sikes’ 
companion, who came to so undignified an 
end, was a bandy-legged, coarse, and heavy 
creature with a black patch on his eye and 
one or two patches on his body. But fifty 
years or so ago white was becoming fre- 
quent, and was much admired. A strain 
of pure white was bred by James Hinks, a 
well-known dog-dealer of Birmingham, and 
it is no doubt to Hinks that we are indebted 
for the elegant Bull-terrier of the type that 
we know to-day. These Birmingham dogs 
showed a refinement and grace and an 
absence of the crook-legs and coloured 
patches which betrayed that Hinks had 
been using an out-cross with the Egnlish 
white terrier, thus getting away further 
still from the Bulldog. Many persons ob- 
jected that with the introduction of new 
blood he had eliminated the pugnacity 
which had been one of the most valued at- 
tributes of the breed. But the charge was 
not justified, and to prove that his strain 
had lost none of the cherished quality of 
belligerence Hinks backed his bitch Puss 
against one of the old bull-faced type for a 
five-pound note and a case of champagne. 
