26 A DESCRIPTION OF 
scious of its superior strength, knows how to chastise the 
impertinence of an inferior: A large L)og of this kind, 
belonging to a gentleman near Newcastle, being fre- 
quently molested by a mongrel, and teased by its con- 
tinual barking, at last took it up in its mouth by the back, 
and, with great composure, dropped it over the quay into 
the river, without doing any further injury to an enemy 
so much its inferior. 
THE BULLDOG 
Is much less than the mastiff, but the fiercest of all the 
Dog kind, and is probably the most courageous creature 
in the world. His short neck adds to his strength. Those 
of a brindled colour are accounted the best of the kind ; 
they will run at and seize the fiercest bull without bark- 
ing, making directly at his head, sometimes catch hold of 
his nose, pin the animal to the ground, and make him 
roar in a most tremendous manner, nor can they without 
difficulty be made to quit their hold. 
Some years since, at a bull-baiting in the north of 
England, when this barbarous custom was very common, 
a young man, confident of the spirit of his Dog, laid a 
wager that he would, at separate times, cut off all the 
animal's feet, and that he would continue to attack the 
