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256 OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.
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I Pakis, May 18, 1863.
-bull-dogs and bull-terriers were the most ruffianly looking brutes that it is possible to conceive . They and " Banger" were good types
of the different development of humanity at home . One was the personification of honest pride and independence , and the other of
the traits which distinguish the class of which " Bill Sykes" may be considered a representative . Were the doctrine of
metempsychosis a popular one , nothing would be more natural than to ' imagine that each of them wouldat some future timecut a figure
in the world as a housebreaker . , There was also , a huge , Spanish bloodhoundblacksilently irasciblehatefuland hating even those
who fed him , , that , might be supposed , to contain , the animus of a Torquemado ; and a heavy-looking German watch-dog , who , like
the greater part of his countrymen , seemed to lead an introspective rather than a practical kind of life . He was a thorough tete carree ,
and , beside the active sympathetic Newfoundland , presented as strong a contrast as the sentimentality of the German literature
does to the more wholesome tone of the English . the But d to marked turn from in conceits the catalogue to facts 6 , ( it Chiens is worth cFutilite y of remark " were that free
Bernards from among any ogs the of and . " the Chiens the monstrosities house d agrement watch-dogs which " The were were shep like found herd tx Ranger -dogs to be , the , " common superb Saint
in their muscular , vigour . It might not have been safe to have approached them within biting distance . But they satisfied the
eye and the reason as well . They were called by a French journalist" les proletaires du travail" and certainly they were all the
nobler for , their usefulness . One never , sees among this class of dogs the idiotic facesthe heavy eyesthe stunted bodiesand the
unhealthy development , of fat , which , one sees among those , of the lap-dog tribe . The Chinese dog belongs to the latter category .
By dint of artificial living it is now a mere lump of ugly fat , enveloped in a baldsemi-transparentand apparently slimy skin
which makes it look , like a pudding , dipped in boiling water . , Geoffrey St . Hilaire recommended it to the consideration of the
French cooks ; who , however , have never acted on the advice thus given them by that savant . Notwithstanding all their hairlessness
and deformity , the Chinese dogs were laden with as many favours by the ladies as were the Italian greyhounds , the English terriers ,
or the Havannah dogs : like Triboulet in the drama , they doubtless were etted for their liness . "Lafemme _est vraiment un ahime "
pug remarked an exceedingly ugly little Frenchman , on hearing lavished on a hideous brute who rejoiced in the name of " Palikas , "
all the adjectives in the French language expressive of endearment . The Empress purchased a beautiful little creature from
Havannah seven or ei , ght called inches •" Coquette long . . It " struck The hair me as of being " . Coquette of extreme " must fine be
-. ness and silkiness . Her tail was also of immense length and very
256 Our Paris Correspondent.
256 OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/40/
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