and feet, but there still remains something to be done in this respect before we attain perfection. The three points which I think call for the attention of the breeder just now are size, ears, and colourthe first more especially. I do not think that there can be any doubt about it, that many of our presentday winners of both sexes are a very long way above the club's standard. Let us then beware that we do not sacrifice our 20lb. terrier for a 25lb. one, however good he may be in other respects. "As regards colour, I fancy the light tan or fawn colours, once not uncommon, are gradually disappearing, but they are yet to be found. Let us get rid of them if we can. The texture of coat one generally sees is decidedly good. I am somewhat surprised that the breed is not more generally taken up, as from any point of view the Welsh terrier is hard to beat, and although he does not find the same amount of favour as do some other varieties of terrier, yet his owner need not be afraid to take his dog into the ring to do battle for special prizes against any other breeds, as instanced by the Welsh dogs' recent victories at the two most recent Birmingham shows." CHAPTER XI THE SCOTTISH TERRIER. FROM all I have been told, and a duction across 16 North cept intro the border and into fashionable For society, at any rate under his present name. generations he had been popular in the Highlands, where, strangely enough, he, was known as the Skye terrier, although he is so different from the long-coated, unspording-like looking creature with Weh ti at pame is now associated. Even Hugh in the first edition of his "Bri.. Deus," puole so recently as 1881, gives au escellert illustration. the Scotch terrier which he as a Skye terrier. I have seen an engraving of a picture painted at the clox of 1700 m which there is a capital representation of a Scottish terrier, one quite of the modern type. A correspondent writing to the Field during the great canine controversy |