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CHAPTER 
Er. 
THE PUG. 
BY FRED* GRESHAM. 
““ At morning’s call 
The small-voiced Pug-dog welcomes in the sun, 
And flea-bit mongrels, wakening one by one, 
Give answer all.” 
HERE seems to be no doubt that the 
fawn-coloured Pug enjoys the an- 
tiquity of descent that is attached to 
the Greyhound, the 
O. W. HormEs. 
early years of the last century it was com- 
monly styled the Dutch Pug. But this 
theory does not trace the history far enough 
back, and it should 
be remembered that 
Maltese dog, and 
some few other ven- ay 
erable breeds. In | 
Butler’s ‘‘Hudibras”’ 
there is a reference | 
to a Stygian Pug | 
kept by Agrippa, and 
it is the fact that 
models of little dogs 
in the form of the 
Pug are to be seen 
in| many ancient 
sculptures, often ac- 
companied by figures 
of the Greyhound. 
Then, again, amongst 
the heterogeneous 
group of dogs | 
sketched in olden 
days, when the art 
at that period the 
Dutch East India 
Company was in 
constant communi- 
| cation with the Far 
East. Others declare 
| that Muscovy was 
the original home of 
the breed, a suppo- 
sition for which 
there is no discern- 
ible foundation. The 
study of canine his- 
tory fre- 
quent enlightenment 
from the study of 
the growth of com- 
mercial intercourse 
between the nations 
receives 
of canine portraiture 
ves less advanced BY CH. POUF-POUF—-BON BON. 
than at is in the Photograph by T. Fall. 
twentieth century, 
the drawings of Pugs 
are very much more accurately treated; 
from which circumstance it may be sup- 
posed that the Pug was a familiar subject. 
Although much has been written on the 
origin of these dogs, nothing authentic 
has been discovered in connection with it. 
Statements have appeared from time to 
time to the effect that the Pug was brought 
into this country from Holland. In the 
MISS F. M. DANIEL’S CH. BOUdJIl 
of the world, and 
the trend of events 
would lead one to 
the belief that the 
Pug had its origin 
in China, particularly in view of the fact 
that it is with that country that most of 
the blunt-nosed toy dogs, with tails curled 
over their backs, are associated. 
It has been suggested that the Pug is 
of the same family as the Bulldog, and 
that it was produced by a cross with this 
and some other smaller breed. But this 
is improbable, as there is reason to believe 
