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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XLVII
THE
BRUSSELS
GRIFFON
Away
back
in
the
'seventies
numbers
of
miners
in
Yorkshire
and
the
Midlands
are
said
to
have
possessed
little
wiry-coated
and
wiry-dispositioned
red
dogs,
which
accompanied
their
owners
to
work,
being
stowed
away
in
pockets
of
overcoats
until
the
dinner
hour,
when
they
were
brought
out
to
share
their
masters'
meals,
perchance
chasing
a
casual
rat
in
between
times.
Old
men
of
to-day
who
remember
these
little
"red
tarriers"
tell
us
that
they
were
the
originals
of
the
present-day
Brussels
Griffons,
and
to
the
sporting
propensities
of
the
aforesaid
miners
is
attributed
the
gameness
which
is
such
a
characteristic
of
their
latter-day
representatives.
No
one
who
is
well
acquainted
with
the
Brussels
Griffon
would
claim
that
the
breed
dates
back,
like
the
Greyhound,
to
hoary
antiquity,
or,
indeed,
that
it
has
any
pretensions
to
have
"come
over
with
the
Conqueror."
The
dog
is
not
less
worthy
of
admiration
on
that
account.
It
is
futile
to
inquire
too
closely
into
his
ancestry;
like
Topsy,
"he
growed"
and
we
must
love
him
for
himself
alone.
Even
in
the
last
fifteen
years
we
can
trace
a
certain
advance
in
the
evolution
of
the
Brussels
Griffon.
When
the
breed
was
first
introduced
under
this
name
into
this
country,
underjaw
was
accounted
of
little
or
no
importance,
whereas
now
a
prominent
chin
is
rightly
recognised
as
being
one
of
the
most
important
physical
characteristics
of
the
race.
Then,
again,
quite
a
few
years
ago
a
Griffon
with
a
red
pin-wire
coat
was
rarely
met
with,
but
now
this
point
has
been
generally
rectified,
and
every
show
specimen
of
any
account
whatever
possesses
the
much-desired
covering.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
