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alludes to black or white terriers, and from these two varieties white ones with black marks could easily be produced. produced. The same author mentions a strain of terriers so like a fox in colour that "awkward people frequently mistake the one for the other."

Between the years 1800 and 1815, an unusually large number of sporting books and works on hunting and dogs were published, all of which dealt more or less with terriers. "The Sporting Dictionary," 1803, says, "Terriers of even the best blood are now bred of all colours-red, black with tan faces, flanks, feet, and legs; brindled, sandy, some few brown pied, white pied, and pure white; as well as one sort of each colour rough and wire-haired, the other soft and smooth; and, what is rather more extraordinary, the latter not much deficient in courage to the former, but the rough breed must be acknowledged the most severe and invincible biter of the two. and five guineas is no great price for a handsome and well-bred terrier."

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Here we have a description of the terrier very much as he still remains. There are the red or fawn in colour, which may be represented to-day by the Irish variety; the black with tan faces of the so-called Welsh terrier, or the black and tan

terrier; and the white, and white and pied of the ordinary fox terrier."

In Bingley's "Memoir of British Quadrupeds" (1809), two terriers are beautifully etched by Howitt. The copy in my library has coloured plates, and one of them delineates two terriers, one of which, with a rather heavy coat, is apparently dark blue and tan in hue, with semi-erect ears and an uncut tail. The other dog is smooth-coated, with erect ears, black and tan in colour, and each would be about 20lb. in weight. In his description Bingley says, The terrier is a fierce, keen, and hardy animal some are rough and others smooth-haired; are generally reddish brown or black, of a long form, short-legged and strongly bristled about the muzzle."

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Daniel, in his "Rural Sports" (1801), does not tell us anything particularly new about the terrier, nor does he attempt to throw any light upon its origin, but the "Sportsman's Cabinet," published two years later, gives an engraving from a picture by Reinagle, of these terriers, two of which are more or less white and patched, the other darker in colour, with a white collar and white on his muzzle, their ears are erect, their coats fairly dense or hard, and they are engaged at a fox-earth, or something of the kind. These terriers of Reinagle's

were a noted strain in their day, and fetched from one pound to twenty pounds apiece. They were undoubtedly fox terriers.

The Dandie Dinmont terrier does not appear to have been noticed by our writers about this time, but that it is one of the old varieties of terriers, I believe, and, although it did not receive its distinctive name until about 1814, when Sir Walter Scott published "Guy Mannering," similar dogs were no doubt fairly numerous on the Border long before that time.

Between 1830 and 1840, writers tell us of the Scotch terrier and the smooth-haired English terrier, a contributor to the "Sportsman" (1833), and Brown, in his "Field Book" (the same date), giving the palm to the Scotch terrier as the finest and oldest variety. In the first-named publication, there is an engraving, said to be of a Scotch terrier, which, so far as shape, style, and character are concerned, would make a very good cropped Irish terrier of the present day. However, about this period and earlier, different localities were producing different kinds of terriers, and we now hear for the first time of one which answers the description of the modern black and tan or Manchester terrier.

The first writer to give any reliable particulars as to many of the now increasing varieties of the

terrier was "Stonehenge," who, in 1855, published his "British Rural Sports." In the early edition of that valuable work, he mentions bull-terriers, smooth English terriers, both white and black and tan; a Skye terrier, a Dandie Dinmont, a roughhaired terrier, and a toy terrier, and at the same time conveys the impression that there are other varieties, as there no doubt were, of less general interest and importance. How the varieties have increased, or at any rate how they have been defined and distinguished, since that time is in evidence wherever we turn, and, forming an opinion from what has taken place during the past ten years, there may be more so-called varieties of the terrier yet to come.

Since "Stonehenge's " " Dogs of the British Isles" was first published in 1867, which included the same varieties he had given eight years earlier in his "Rural Sports," great strides have been made in the improvement and classification of our terriers, and the volumes of the Stud Book of the Kennel Club contain varieties which, by careful selection, no doubt originally came from one stock, with the additions of various crosses. Our newest strains have become popularised, and as it were individualised, including the Welsh terrier, the Airedale terrier, the Clydesdale or Paisley terrier,

and perhaps the Scotch and Irish terriers (though I fancy that both these varieties are actually much older as such than they are usually given credit for); whilst the bull-terriers, Bedlington terriers, Skye terriers, fox terriers (rough and smooth), black and tan terriers, white English terriers (including English and other smooth-haired terriers), broken haired Scotch and Yorkshire terriers, with the toy terriers, rough and smooth, had places given them in the first volume of the "Kennel Club Stud Book," published in 1874.

It is, perhaps, interesting to state that the first two dog shows held, which took place in 1859, at Newcastle-on-Tyne and in Birmingham, did not offer prizes for terriers; but at the latter show the following year classes were provided for black and tan terriers, white and other English terriers, Scotch terriers (both winners being Skye terriers) and for toy terriers (the four classes having twenty-three entries, seven of which were "toys"), ten Scottish (Skyes), four white English and two black and tan terriers. Now, thirty years later, we can hold a show of terriers that will produce over a thousand entries, and at an exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, in February, 1893, there were 162 classes provided for terriers, and they contained something like 880 competitors. Such figures as

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