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vice versa, but the division between the two colours should be well defined.

"General Appearance. A terrier calculated to take his own part in the rat pit, and not of the whippet type.

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Weight.-For Toys not exceeding 7lb. For the large breed from 16lb. to 20lb. is

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It may be interesting to compare the above with what Mr. Henry Lacy suggested more than a dozen years earlier, and what was considered. good when he wrote would undoubtedly be considered so now.

Of late I have noticed that there is a tendency to breed the black and tan terrier too much of the whippet and Italian greyhound stamp, with tucked

up loins, arched back, and long feet. With such defects have come round, full, glaring eyes, instead of those smart, piercing, and almond-shaped which ought to be part and parcel of every terrier, whether kept as a companion or as a vermin destroyer. Breeders should check this tendency, which can easily be done by refusing to use such dogs and bitches in their kennels as are likely to perpetuate such glaring and mischievous defects.

Our dog-loving cousins in America do not appear to have shown any great affection for the black and tan terrier, nor have the few imported, chiefly by Dr. Foote, of New York, attracted any particular attention when they were benched. Perhaps on the other side of the Atlantic the natives do not possess sufficient knowledge of the breed to fully appreciate the rich colour and correct markings of this, to say the least, peculiar variety of the dog, and one so difficult to produce in perfection.

Before closing the chapter, allusion must be made to the "blue" or slate-coloured terriers which are occasionally obtained from this variety, though the parents may be correctly marked themselves. Such

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sports are in reality as well bred as the real article, and are found of all sizes, perhaps more commonly amongst the "toys" and the small-sized

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specimens, than amongst the larger ones.
are entirely "blue" or slate coloured, others have
tan markings. In certain Lancashire towns they
are far from uncommon, and have little value set
upon them, nor are they acknowledged on the
show bench in the usual way. Still, at two or
three of the earlier canine exhibitions special
classes were provided for these "blue terriers,"
and once or twice in London a fair entry was
obtained. From what I have recently seen of these
blue and blue and tan, sometimes altogether
chocolate or tan coloured, smooth-coated terriers-
and I knew a strain of them which bred pretty true
to type and colour-they appear, at some time or
other, to have been croseed with the Italian grey-
hound. Their shape shows it, as do the heads and
expressions of some of them, and their high action
and gait likewise.

The late Mr. Thomson Gray, in his "Dogs of Scotland," mentions a dog called the Blue Paul, and earlier writers had also drawn attention to the same animal. I certainly refuse to acknowledge him as a variety, and consider him identical with the "blue terrier" bred from "black and tans." Some specimens described may have been larger and generally coarser than a perfect black and tan terrier ought to be, but such variations were not sufficient

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to make them a distinctive breed. There are many well bred black and tan terriers up to 30lb. weight and over, and I have seen more than one "blue" dog bred from such, and what Mr. Thomson Gray would no doubt have considered "a find " as one of the last of the race of the so-called Blue Paul. Some time or other a fancier had a terrier called Paul, and it being a celebrity in its line, which was to kill rats and fight, and being “blue” in colour was called "Blue Paul" to distinguish it from other eminent dogs likewise called "Paul.” At least, such is my idea of its origin, notwithstanding how I may upset local historians and others. who have said it was named after Paul Jones, who had brought a specimen home on his return from one of his piratical expeditions.

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