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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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The
animal,
however,
was
neither
a
true
terrier
nor
a
true
Bulldog,
but
an
uncompromising
mongrel;
albeit
he
served
his
immediate
purpose,
and
was
highly
valued
for
his
pertinacity,
if
not
for
his
appearance.
In
1806
Lord
Camelford
possessed
one
for
which
he
had
paid
the
very
high
price
of
eighty-four
guineas,
and
which
he
presented
to
Belcher,
the
pugilist.
This
dog
was
figured
in
The
Sporting
Magazine
of
the
time.
He
was
a
short-legged,
thick-set,
fawn-coloured
specimen,
with
closely
amputated
ears,
a
broad
blunt
muzzle,
and
a
considerable
lay-back;
and
this
was
the
kind
of
dog
which
continued
for
many
years
to
be
known
as
the
Bull-and-terrier.
He
was
essentially
a
man's
dog,
and
was
vastly
in
favour
among
the
undergraduates
of
Oxford
and
Cambridge.
Gradually
the
Bulldog
element,
at
first
pronounced,
was
reduced
to
something
like
a
fourth
degree,
and,
with
the
terrier
character
predominating,
the
head
was
sharpened,
the
limbs
were
lengthened
and
straightened
until
little
remained
of
the
Bulldog
strain
but
the
dauntless
heart
and
the
fearless
fighting
spirit,
together
with
the
frequent
reversion
to
brindle
colouring,
which
was
the
last
outward
and
visible
characteristic
to
disappear.
Within
the
remembrance
of
men
not
yet
old
the
Bull-terrier
was
as
much
marked
with
fawn,
brindle,
or
even
black,
as
are
the
Fox-terriers
of
our
own
period.
But
fifty
years
or
so
ago
white
was
becoming
frequent,
and
was
much
admired.
A
strain
of
pure
white
was
bred
by
James
Hinks,
a
well-known
dog-dealer
of
Birmingham,
and
it
is
no
doubt
to
Hinks
that
we
are
indebted
for
the
elegant
Bull-terrier
of
the
type
that
we
know
to-day.
These
Birmingham
dogs
showed
a
refinement
and
grace
and
an
absence
of
the
crook-legs
and
coloured
patches
which
betrayed
that
Hinks
had
been
using
an
out-cross
with
the
English
White
Terrier,
thus
getting
away
further
still
from
the
Bulldog.
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