The Bull-dog. 151 
The admirable drawing, by the late Mr. T. W. Wood, 
well expresses the leonine aspect of this noble specimen. 
His manners in the house were perfect, and his. temper 
unruffled by the utmost strain the children could put upon 
his good nature. As he lay on the floor of his master’s 
studio, they would roll about on his great tawny body to 
their hearts’ content; but Chang never resented any inter- 
ference on their part with his convenience or dignity. 
Shortly before Chang’s death, which resulted from a com- 
plication of heart disease, inflammation of the lungs, and 
dropsy, his master wrote to me: “I don’t think anyone 
ever got more pleasure out of an animal than I have out 
of Chang. His beauty is always fresh to me, and he has 
always been so constant a companion. . . . . An inci- 
dent occurred the other day which will interest you. He 
recollects things well, and sometimes broods over them. One 
night I came home late from the Punch dinner, and, letting 
myself in, found Chang more demonstrative than usual in 
the hall, and with apparently something on his mind. I 
went into my studio, and sat down on his bench in the 
bow window, reading a paper, and Chang got up, put his 
head on my knees, and went to sleep. Presently, my wife 
came down from the nursery, and began, ‘Such an unfor- 
tunate thing! Chang and May’” (his ‘youngest daughter) 
“‘were playing together, and he rolled down the hill with 
her, and hurt her knee. As soon as Chang heard May’s 
name, he sat up, and began to paw me in an apparent 
agony of remorse and anxiety. I had the greatest trouble 
in soothing him, and he had evidently been thinking of 
nothing else but the accident.” 
The bulldog has been termed by Youatt a “stupid and 
ferocious brute,” a designation which might have been justly 
applied to him in olden times, when his life was passed in 
bull baiting and fighting, and he was the favourite of black- 
guards of high and low degree; but it is certainly a libel on 
his modern representative. A short time ago, I visited the 
