Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
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
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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st tender part. Asthe bull lowered his head in order to usehis horns it was necessary for the dog tokeep close to the ground, or, in the wordsof the old fanciers of the sport, to playlow. Larger dogs were at a disadvantagein this respect, and, therefore, those ofsmaller proportions, which were quite assuitable for the sport, were selected. The average height of the dogs wasabout 16 inches, and the weight was gener-ally about 45 lbs., whilst the body wasbroad, muscular, and compact, as is shownin the pictures of Crib and Rosa and Bull Broke Loose, which are reproducedin these pages. In bull-baiting a rope about fifteen feetin length was fastened to the root of the horns, and the other end was secured toan iron ring fixed to a stone or stake driveninto the ground. The dog kept his headclose to the ground, or if of large size, hecrawled on his belly to avoid being abovethe animals horns. The bull, on the otherhand, kept his nose close to the ground,and maiw of the veterans had sufficient
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CRIB and ROSA (1817).HN SCOTT. cunning, or instinct, to scrape a hole inthe ground for themselves when one wasnot already provided, and would thenendeavour to toss the dog with his horns. The actual ring for bull-baiting stillremains in several places in England, suchas Hedon, Preston, Colchester, and Brading,in the Isle of Wight. Several towns, suchas Birmingham and Dorchester, retaintraces of the sport in the nomenclature ofthe streets. In the minute and carefully kept house-hold accounts of Sir Miles Stapleton, pub-lished in The Antiquary, reference is madeto the replacement of the ring for bull-baiting, and the stone to which it wasfixed, in the market-place of Bedale, Y< »rks,in 1661. Pepys mentions in his diary that he was 36 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.

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