Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — The Coming Dog. [ARTICLE]

The Coming Dog.

Pall Mall Gazette. It is probable that we shall have a new dog. The Schipperke has not been a great success. He took well at first, and the fact that he was born without a tail was all in his favor. Then came the distressing rumor that this was not a fact, bi t a fiction; that in truth he has no tail for the same reason that a fox terrier has a short one, and this rumor has robbed him of much ot his distinction. Justice was then done for a short time to the Irish terrier, who added hardihood and fidelity to other recommendations. But fashion is capricious and loves a change. A new dog will have to be brought out, and it has been. already discovered. There is a splendid breed in Morocco of which the Moors are excessively proud. They like to keep it to themselves and are jealous of European interference. So jealous are they that until lately no native dog was allowed to cross the frontier. The most strenuous efforts were made to keep the breed at home. It was not allowed to bring the dogs into Tangier lest they might he smuggled across the Mediterranean. The law, though popular, was necessarily too tyrannical in its application. The Sultan was petitioned; stringency is to be relaxed. Tangier is to be a free port and the Morocco dogs are to cross the Mediterranean.