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his enraged and tortured antagonist. 
The undershot teeth closed like a 
vise, and the smashed in face, the 
“lay back,” as it is termed, enabled 
the dog to breathe. The whole busi¬ 
ness demanded courage and determi¬ 
nation, and “bulldog tenacity” has 
become a byword. 
The bull baiters only faintly re¬ 
sembled the modern dogs. They 
were lighter in build, higher on the 
leg, and more active. Their shoul¬ 
ders were loose; their chests were 
broad; their jaws were undershot; 
their noses did lay back — but all 
these points were only tendencies 
toward the perfected exaggerations 
displayed to-day. The modern show 
specimens would, in fact, fare as 
badly in the bull ring as their an¬ 
cestors would in the show ring, for, 
though they have courage and tenac¬ 
ity, they lack the activity and their 
jaws are too excessively undershot 
to enable them to take a lasting 
grip. 
In the development of the fancy 
points, the glory of the modern dog, 
there has sprung up a unique doggy 
cult. Bulldog devotees talk a jar¬ 
gon all but unintelligible to their 
fellow fanciers. A bulldog’s lips are 
“chops,” “flews,” or “cushions.” His 
ears must be “rose ears;” that is, 
they must be folded backward and 
outward. His shoulders, though 
loose, must never be “out-at-elbows.” 
His back, which curves over his 
hindquarters, is called a “roach 
back,” and a “three-quarter screw 
tail” is the best one for him to wag, 
though a “kink tail” is not severely 
condemned, and a stubby, twisted 
“button tail” is better than a long, 
straight “pump handle tail.” 
“Once a bulldog man always a 
bulldog man.” Worship of the dog 
is the common property of all good 
bulldog men. To them he is a work 
of art, a thing of esthetic joy, like 
a sunset or a poem, and I admire 
and respect their fine feelings 
toward their splendid monsters. Nor 
is this rare joy the exclusive prop¬ 
erty of a few choice souls. The 
great individualist among dogs, and 
such the bulldog surely is, wins 
friends among the peers and the pau¬ 
pers. Such very different Ameri¬ 
cans as the late George Gould, Col¬ 
onel John H. Thayer, Thomas W. 
Lawson, Richard Croker, John Mat¬ 
thews and R. L. McCreery, of New 
York; Tyler Morse, of Boston, and 
Joseph B. Vandergrift, of Pitts¬ 
burgh, have worshipped at his Amer¬ 
ican shrine, and in England I have 
seen a peeress and the owner of a 
third-rate public house showing in a 
class judged by a leading tradesman 
of a Midland city. 
Over the origin of the French 
bulldog much good ink has been 
spilled. French authorities, the 
Prince de Wagram, MM. de Cone 
and •Boutroue, claim a strictly 
French origin, pointing to the heavy, 
mastiff-like douges de Bordeaux 
(probably related to the Spanish 
bull baiting dogs) as the ancestor. 
They admit that in recent years the 
breed has been crossed with Eng¬ 
lish importations, but it was, they 
affirm, originally French. Lady 
Lewis, Messrs. W. J. Stubbs, and 
Frederick W. Cousins, the English 
experts, believe the breed is an off¬ 
shoot of English stock. Nottingham 
was always a great bulldog town, 
and sixty odd years ago Nottingham 
lacemakers emigrated in great num¬ 
bers to Normandy. They took their 
bulldogs with them; hence the 
French bulldog. As in the thick of 
this debate Herbert Crompton said, 
“Strange that such a difference 
should be ’twixt Tweedledum and 1 
Tweedledee!” 
Americans have been quite content 
to take the little Frenchman at his 
own worth without bothering a 
great deal whether he was French- 
English or English-French in his 
origin. Ten years ago Mr. Frank 
Sternberg summed up this feeling 
when he said to me, “What differ¬ 
ence does it make where he came 
from or how, he is here, and he is 
here to stay.” And the vivacious 
little chap has not only stayed, he 
has won his way to an important 
place on the benches. Smart and 
quaint are favorite adjectives in de¬ 
scribing a good French bull, and! 
these qualities have made him a 
fashionable dog, while his own 
charming personality and gay spirits 
enable him to keep his place among 
the favorites. 
There is never a question as to> 
which of the two bulldogs is the 
better. Both dogs are only best in 
their own sphere. They share a 
family failing in that they are both 
terrible snorers, and, if there is gen¬ 
erous quantity in the English snore, 
there is rare quality in the French. 
Their excellencies, however, are in¬ 
dividual, and which set of virtues- 
appeals to you depends more upon 
you than the dogs. If you want a 
grand character, a dog as ugly as a 
Chinese idol and strong as a pony, 
yet a dog of the highest courage ancf 
fidelity, then you want the English 
dog. If, however, you want a lively 
four-footed playfellow, a stylish dog 
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