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Title: The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Identifier: cu31924001170848 (find matches)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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GROUP OF CROPPED GRIFFONS. THE PROPERTY OF MADAME ALBERT MANS. OF BRUSSELS. CHAPTER LII. THE BRUSSELS GRIFFON. BY MRS. H. HANDLEY SPICER. " Nobles, whom arms or arts adorn, Wait for my infants yet unborn. None but a peer of wit and grace Can hope a pnppy of my race : And, oh, would Fate the bliss decree To mine (a bliss too great for me) Thai two my tallest sons might grace AWAY back in the '.si-vcntie.s niimber.s A-\ of miner.s in "^'orl^.sliirc and tlie Midhinds are .said t(j have pcj.s.sessed Hltle \vir\'-c<iated and w irx-di.spositioncd red ddgs, whirh acc<impanied their (jwner.s to work, beino' .stowed awa\' in p(.)ckets of o\-ereoats until die dinner hour, when they were brouf,dit out to share llieir masters' meals, perchance chasinij a casual rat in between times. Olcl men of to-da\- who remember these little " red tarriers " tell irs that th(.w were the orii^inals of tlie present- day Brussels (irilTons, and to the sportinq' propensities of the afon-said miners is attri- buted thi- t^ameness which is such a charac- liilus' side, as erst Evander's, To keep off flatterers, spies, and panders ; To let no noble slave co»ie near. And scare Lord Fannies from his ear: Then might a royal youth, and true, Enjoy at least a friend—or two." teristic ot their latter-da\- representati\-es. One seldom sees any doqs portrayed in the pictures of the nineteenth century which bear much resemblance to the breed as we know it, unless we except such specimens as the little doq- in Landseer's well-known picture of " Dignity and Impudence." Hut this little do,t,r miq-hi be claimed with equal justice as a bad Yorkshire or a mongrel .Sk\e Terrier. Xo one who is well acquainted with the Rrus.sels Griffon would claim that the breed dates back, like the Greyhound, to hoary anti()uily, or, indeed, that it has any pre- tensions to have " come over with the Con-

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