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Modern T\1'1-;s of Fox ■|"i-:rkikks, S.mouth Haiiucd axd Wih\' Hairicd 



suited in form to subterranean work tlian the 

 bassets, for instance. Consequently the fox 

 terrier now contents himself with rats and 

 mice, which he attacks furious!)-, to the de- 

 light of amateur sportsmen. The breeding of 

 these terriers with smooth hair and wiry hair 

 has been carried on extensively, espe 

 daily in England, and fabulous 

 sums are given for the best 

 specimens, which often 

 win first prizes and are 

 exported from time to 

 time to E u r o [5 e a n 

 countries or to 

 America, where they 

 become the founders 

 of new families. For 

 such competitive ani- 

 mals special account 

 must be taken of the 

 bones, and of the sym 

 metry of the body, the head, 

 and the paws, though even here 

 there is great difference of taste. 

 The prize-winning fox terrier of 

 to-day differs in essential points 

 from the one of five or six years ago. The nose 

 must be decidedly black, but less importance 

 is now attached to the distribution of white, 

 which is, of course, the dominant color, and to 

 the black, which may now form spots around 

 the eyes, on the ears, the tail, and along the 

 back. A fox terrier must be neither brown nor 



BirLLDofi, I'URF, Blood 



striped, and the ears should be small and bent 

 forward along the cheeks in the lorm of a V. 



T/u- mastiff. More persons than one will 

 think that the mastiff is not made for a pleas- 

 ure dog, thanks to his great height, his thick, 

 big head, his enormous muzzle, and more es- 

 pecially to the sinister expression 

 ;'i\'en b\' wrinkles around and 

 between the e\'cs. Yet these 

 dogs are usually mild and 

 placid, though \' e r ^' 

 strong and ver)' brax'e 

 on occasion, which 

 traits make them well 

 suited to serve as ter- 

 rors, fdstone relates 

 that a mastiff allowed 

 to roam at night 

 around a country house 

 did no harm to tramps 

 or thieves so long as they 

 stayed outside the fences ; 

 but he watched them, walking 

 continually round them, so that the 

 pcor fellows ended by standing in 

 the same place till daylight, not 

 daring to stir. The [patent of nobilit)' for 

 mastiffs will be found in England, where they 

 were bred, it is said, in the fifteenth century 

 by the family of Leigh of Lyme Hall. When 

 bear hunting came to an end in England (for 

 want of bears) bear gardens were invented, 

 where sportsmen amused themselves by seeing 



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