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CHAPTER XXXIII. 
THE BOSTON TERRIER. 
Poor Wolf, thy mistress leads thee a dog’s life of it; but never mind, my lad, 
whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee.”’—Rip VAN WINKLE. 
HE Boston Terrier was made in 
America and is recognised in the 
United States as distinctively an 
American dog. But it is acknowledged 
by the Americans themselves that the raw 
material was drawn from Great Britain. 
Terriers of a very similar type were com- 
monly bred in England twenty and thirty 
years ago, and were familiarly known as 
the Bull-and-terrier. It was a cross be- 
tween the Bulldog and the English Ter- 
rier, and it had the attributes of both 
breeds. It was an excellent fighting dog 
and ratter, and was popular in the mining 
districts. Our Bull-terrier is its direct 
descendant, somewhat refined, and with 
the brindle colouring eliminated. A genera- 
tion ago a considerable number of these 
Bull-and-terrier dogs were taken to America 
by seamen and engineers on the liners from 
Liverpool; and among these was one 
purchased by Mr. Robert C. Hooper, of 
Boston. He was a dark brindle, with a 
white blaze up his face and a white throat, 
with cropped rose ears, and a screw tail. 
Probably he was well up on the legs, and 
his weight may have been something about 
thirty pounds. He became known as 
Hooper’s Judge. Another of the breed was 
a bitch named Gyp, who is recorded to 
have had more of the Bulldog than the 
terrier in her type. These two were 
mated, and they got Wells’s Eph, whose 
name is still historic in Massachusetts. 
Eph was bred to Tobin’s Kate, a small 
light brindle bitch, who threw Barnard’s 
Tom, the first genuine representative of 
the Boston Terrier, although not yet de- 
scribed by that breed name. 
Several of these Bull-terriers—all of 
them of the same general appearance, with 
light or dark brindle coats and a white 
muzzle and blaze—were exhibited at the 
first Boston show in 1878. They became 
popular as men’s dogs in New England, and 
their popularity extended. A club was 
formed, and in 1891, or thereabouts, the 
American Bull Terrier Club of Boston 
applied to the American Kennel Club for 
the registration of the breed, in which they 
were especially interested. The application 
was refused on the ground that the dog had 
been bred away from its original type, that 
it was not a typical American Bull-terrier ; 
and it was suggested that the club should 
omit the name “ Bull-terrier” from their 
designation, and call themselves simply the 
Boston Terrier Club. This was done, but 
it was not until 1893 that full recognition 
was given. 
By this time, probably other strains had 
been imported by the Bostonians, with the 
effect that the descendants of Hooper’s 
Judge departed yet further from the original 
Bull-and-terrier type. So much was this so 
that the American Kennel Club declined to. 
recognise the dogs under that name. The 
breed came to be spoken of and written 
of as merely a local strain. It was not 
a Bull-terrier. It was only what the 
Boston people called a Bull-terrier. If 
it was a terrier at all, it was merely a 
Boston terrier. 
The Bostonians persevered, however. They 
improved their strain, and gradually it 
became recognised at shows, while outside 
of Massachusetts classes were provided for 
it, until it grew to be one of the most 
popular of American dogs, still keeping 
the local name that had been derisively 
flung at it. 
From time to time there have been dis- 
putes as to the points of the Boston Terrier. 
It has been disputed whether the skull 
