the mother will remain with the puppies at night only, and three milk meals may be given during the day, with one of scraped meat, at intervals of about four hours, care being taken to give too little milk rather than too much.  At six weeks the puppies may usually be taken entirely from the mother, and at this time it is generally advisable to give a gentle vermifuge, such as Ruby.  A very little German rusk may also be added to the milk meals, which may be increased to one and a-half tablespoonfuls at a time, but it must always be remembered that, in nine cases out of ten, trouble is caused by overfeeding rather than underfeeding, and until the rubicon of eight weeks has been passed, care and oversight should be unremitting.  At eight weeks’ old, Force or brown breadcrumbs may be added to the morning milk, chopped meat may be given instead of scraped at midday, the usual milk at tea-time, and a dry biscuit, such as Plasmon, for supper.  At ten weeks old the milk at tea-time may be discontinued and the other meals increased accordingly, and very little further trouble need be feared, for Griffons very rarely suffer from teething troubles.

Brussels Griffons are divided into three groups, according to their appearance, and representatives of each group may be, and sometimes are, found in one and the same litter.  First and foremost, both in importance and in beauty, comes the Griffon Bruxellois, a cobby, compact little dog, with wiry red coat, large eyes, short nose, well turned up, and sloping back, very prominent chin, and small ears.  Secondly come the Griffons of any other colour, or, as they are termed in Brussels, Griffons Belges.  These are very often Griffons of the usual colour, with a mismark of white or black, or occasionally they may be grey or fawn.  But the most approved colour, and certainly the most attractive, is black and tan.  The third group of Brussels Griffons is that termed “smooth,” or, in Brussels, Griffons Brabancons.  The smooth Griffon is identical with the rough in all points except for being short-haired.  As is well known, smooth Griffons are most useful for breeding rough ones with the desired hard red coat, and many well-known show dogs with rough coats have been bred from smooth ones:  for example, Sparklets, Ch.  Copthorne Lobster, Ch.  Copthorne Treasure, Ch.  Copthorne Talk-o’-the-Town, and Copthorne Blunderbuss.  This and many other facts in connection with breeding Griffons will be learnt from experience, always the best teacher.

The descriptive particulars of the Brussels Griffon are:—­

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GENERAL APPEARANCE—­A lady’s little dog—­intelligent, sprightly, robust, of compact appearance—­reminding one of a cob, and captivating the attention by a quasi-human expression.  HEAD—­Rounded, furnished with somewhat hard, irregular hairs, longer round the eyes, on the nose and cheeks.  EARS—­Erect when cropped as in Belgium, semi-erect when uncropped.  EYES—­Very