were tried, convicted, and transported for their crime. Captain Brown, in his "Biographical Sketches," says that, "Notwithstanding his commanding appearance, and the strictness with which he guards the property of his master, the Mastiff is possessed of great mildness of character, and is as grateful for any favours bestowed on him as the most diminutive of the canine tribe. There is a remarkable and peculiar warmth of attachment shown by this dog. He is aware of all the duties required of him, and punctually discharges them. In the course of the night he several times examines everything with which he is entrusted with the most scrupulous care, and, by repeated barkings, warns the household or the depredator that he is at the post of duty." The BULLDOG has a round, thick head, a broad chest, short thick legs placed wide apart, a small hairless tail, and a savage, brutal aspect. Formerly Bulldogs were used in the cruel sport of bull-baiting, for which their native ferocity well fitted them. The following advertisement, published in the reign of Queen Anne, will show what kind of amusements diverted our ancestors :: "At the Bear Garden in Hockley in the Hole, near Clerkenwell-green, this present Monday, there is a great match to be fought by two Dogs of Smithfield Bars against two Dogs of Hampstead, at the Reading Bull, for one guinea to be spent; five lets goes out of hand; which goes fairest and farthest in wins all. The famous Bull of fire-works, which pleased the gentry to admiration. Likewise there are two Bear-Dogs to jump three jumps apiece at the Bear, which jumps highest for ten shillings to be spent. Also variety of bull-baiting and bear-baiting; it being a day of general sport by all the old gamesters; and a Bulldog to be drawn up with fire-works. Beginning at three o'clock." The manner in which the brutal sport of bull and bear-baiting was practised towards the close of the reign of Elizabeth is described in Hentzer's "Itinerary," published in Latin, in the year 1598: "There is a place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English Bulldogs; but not without risk to the dogs from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape because of his chain; he defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all that come within his reach, and are not active enough to get out of it, and tearing the whips out of their hands, and breaking them." In "Strutt's Sports and Pastimes" there is an account of a bear-baiting match that was performed before Good Queen Bess in 1575 : "It was a sport very pleasant to see the bear, with his pink eyes learing after his enemies, approach; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage; and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults: if he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free; that if he were taken once, then by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing, and tumbling, he would work and wind himself from them; and, when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver hanging about his physiognomy." The same writer, Laneham, tells us, that thirteen bears were provided for this occasion, and they were baited with a great sort of Ban-dogs. In the foregoing relations, we find no mention made of a ring put into the nose of the bear when he was baited; which certainly was the more modern practice; hence the expression by the Duke of Newcastle, in the "Humourous Lovers," printed in 1617, "I fear the wedlock ring more than the bear does the ring in his nose." The BULL-TERRIER is a cross between the Bulldog and the Terrier, partaking of the courage of the one and the comeliness of the other. He is not a very sociable dog, though he is brave, faithful, and strong. He is often used as a watch-dog, and sometimes by the vulgar as a fighting-dog too. I do not know any pleasant anecdote of him, so I will not tell any. This I Nature It is the custom to crop the ears and tails of Terriers and some other kinds of dogs. cannot but regard as cruel and useless. surely never intended the dogs' ears to be so clipped and deformed as we sometimes see them; and as for cutting the tail it is monstrous, for the dog really speaks more with his tail than with his tongue. With his tail he expresses hope, fear, frolic, love, gratitude, joy, anger, remorse, entreaty, obedience, defiance, and shame; so that when we clip his tail we really injure one of his organs of speech. H CHAPTER XIX. THE ENGLISH TERRIER. Sleek, small, and slender, with cropped ears and tail, With care and watchfulness that never fail, PRETTY look ing creature is this little dog; and it is useful as a de- kinds of Terriers, one smooth brave, and active dogs, and are easily taught to perform a number of curious tricks. In a French work I find the following curious, if true, method of fishing, in which a Terrier or Poodle dog is employed. 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