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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m provoking it. He lias a way ofhis own with tramps, and seldom failsto induce them to continue their travels.Yet withal he is tender-hearted, a friendof children, an ideal companion, and oftenhas a clever gift for parlour tricks. InChina, his fatherland, he is esteemed foranother quality—his excellence as a sub-stitute for mast mutton. Though in his own country he is re-garded as plebeian, just a common cur, he is by no means a mongrel. That he is ofancient lineage is proved by the fact thathe always breeds true to type. He yieldsto the Pekingese Spaniel the claim to bethe Royal dog of China, yet his bloodmust be of the bluest. If you doubt it,look at his tongue. My own special Chow is one of my beslfriends. In the household he has an estab-lished position, which he maintains withgreat dignity. He comes and goes whenhe likes and where he likes ; he is respei tedthroughout the neighbourhood, and is knownas Gentleman Chow. a title which he fullydeserves. During the eight years of our
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