Show HOW BULLDOG GOT HIS NAME It is probable that few lovers ers of the the most moet popular do do today today the the bulldog- bulldog know whence 11 he obtained his name He lie HeIs HeIs lieis Is called a bull for the reason that formerly formerly for for- merly his services were employed In the driving of cattle The dog was trained to meet the rushes of the bull by the simple expedient of or seizing its charge harge by Its most sensitive e part the part the nose The spaniel formerly one of the most popular species of dogs gets his name from Spain Some have thought that the fox tox terrier terrier ter ten rier ncr derived his name from the fox by reason of his pointed like fox muzzle but as a matter of ot fact the dog was not so fiO named on account of ot any fancied resemblance resemblance resemblance blance to Reynard On the contrary the fox terrier Is fil so 51 named because in the days when he was much larger In itt size and of greater reater strength than now he was employed by English I sportsmen o to draw and kill ild t the fox o being I sent down n df Into t Reynards Reynard's burrow for that Harpers Harper's Week Weekly |