grey, or fawn with black points. Shade of head and legs approximating that of body."

1. AVERAGE MEASURE.

Dog. Height at shoulder, gin.

Length, back of skull to root of tail, 224in.; muzzle to back of skull, 8in.; root of tail to tip joint, gin. Total length, 40in.

Bitch. Half an inch lower and two and a half inches shorter than dog, all parts proportional; thus, body 21in, head 8in., and tail 8in.; total, 37 in.

2.--AVERAGE WEIGHT.

Dog, 18lb.; Bitch, 16lb. No dog shall be over 20lb., nor under 16lb.; and no bitch should be over 18lb., nor under 14lb.

Scale for bitches one-half inch lower throughout.

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4. JUDICIAL AWARDS.

1. Over extreme weight to be handicapped 5 points per lb. of

excess.

2. Over or under shot mouth to disqualify.

3. Doctored ears or tails to disqualify.

4. No extra value for greater length of coat than 51⁄2in.

Not to be commended under a total of 60 points.

So much for all the Scottish fanciers have said and done for the Skye terrier. Little more remains for me to say, but this chapter ought not to be closed without a word of warning to those breeders who are producing their terriers too big-quite over-sized, in fact. Some of the best show specimens have thus been severely handicapped, and it is to be hoped that judges will make a dead set against "big terriers," and stick rigidly to the standard adopted by the Scottish Club, and so discard all dogs which are over 20lb. in weight. This is quite a fair limit, as is that for bitches, which must not exceed 18lb.

There is no doubt that the club's description printed on the preceding pages has been most carefully and skilfully drawn up, but the difficulty seems to be in getting the judges to abide by such ruling, or even by ruling of any kind. kind. Nor can they be blamed for

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having a decided opinion of their own, and I am pretty certain that a man who occupies the position of a judge in the "dog ring" should not only have an opinion of his own, but be strong enough in his convictions to abide by it. If he does so, and is competent to perform satisfactorily the work he has undertaken, he is less likely to make a mistake than when he attempts to carry out the ideas of others. Of course these remarks apply to judges of other varieties of the dog, as well as to those who adjudicate upon Skye terriers.

Since the preceding pages, in which allusion is made to the Roseneath terrier, were printed, Lady George Campbell informs me that these little dogs were carefully kept by the Dukes of Argyle for many generations before Clarke was head-keeper there. It was only about 1843 that the "pack" was dispersed, when he took two or three specimens to Roseneath.