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CROSSED BREEDS. 



shows no evidence of pain, even though half-a-dozen rats are 

 hanging on to his lips, which are extremely tender parts of the 

 body, and where the bite of a mouse even will make a badly bred 

 dog yell with pain. In fact, for all the purposes to which a 



" Madman," Bull-Terrier. 



terrier can be applied, the half or quarter cross with the bull, 

 commonly known as the "bull-terrier" or "half-bred dog," is 

 of more value than either of his purely bred progenitors. °Such 

 a dog, however, to be useful, must be more than half-terrier, or 

 he will be too heavy and slow, too much under-jawed to hold 

 well with his teeth, and too little under command to obey the 

 orders of his master. Sometimes the result of the second cross, 



