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Mr. Pegg at Curzon Hall in 1893, was absolutely disqualified by the judge, Mr. Hartley.

This disqualification caused a considerable amount of sensation and unpleasantness at the time, and it was sought to prove that the dog was not actually totally deaf. Perhaps he was not what is called "stone deaf," but he was about as "hard of hearing" as a white fox terrier I once owned, of which a friend wittily remarked, "it could hear well enough when you rang its tail." Still White Wonder was, in my opinion, sufficiently deaf to justify the action of the judge in the matter.

A very dark hazel eye is desirable, and the small pig-like eyes, with flesh-coloured eye-lids, are to be guarded against. Cherry-coloured or flesh-coloured noses, or parti-coloured noses, should likewise be a severe handicap, if not actual disqualification. The weights ought to be divided-dogs and bitches under 15lb.; dogs and bitches under 30lb.; and dogs and bitches over 30lb. in weight.

Some bull terriers go up to 45lb., or even 50lb., in weight, but such animals are in reality too big, and as a rule when of such a size they lack symmetry, and have more than an inclination to be coarse and heavy in the head. It is one of the most difficult points to achieve in breeding bull terriers, to have them clean and pleasant in the muzzle, i.e., free

from anything approaching hanging lips or jowl. Throatiness, too, must be guarded against; indeed, a perfect bull terrier should be as cleanly chiselled or cut in the muzzle, mouth, and neck as a black and tan terrier or as an English white terrier.

In the United States an attempt is being made, or has perhaps in a degree succeeded, to introduce a so-called new variety-the Boston terrier-amed after the "hub of the universe." This animal is, from a description I have been given, and from illustrations forwarded me, nothing more than a very bad strain of the old-fashioned fighting bull terrier, and I fancy has nothing to recommend him, still it is being "boomed " in America, and at some shows special classes are provided for him. As is the case with our bull terrier, it is the fashion to have his ears cut.

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CHAPTER III.

THE ENGLISH WHITE TERRIER.

ON several occasions I have quoted the number of entries in the "Kennel Club Stud Book" as indicative of the rise or fall in popularity of the different varieties of dogs to which they allude. These figures must not always be taken as an actual and infallible guide either one way or the other, for when the first volume was published the registration of dogs was, as it were, in its infancy. The general public knew little about the thing, and only those intimately connected with shows as exhibitors and breeders took the trouble to have their dogs entered. This is not so now, for pretty nearly everyone who has a dog of good pedigree will have him entered in the "Stud Book," whether it be shown or not.

However, so far as the little terrier whose name heads this chapter is concerned, the inference may be correctly drawn, for no one believes that this, the most fragile and delicate of all our terriers, is so common and easily to be found as he was a score of

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