TAIL. When hanging, upper half perpendicular, under half thrown backwards in a curve. When raised a prolongation of the incline of the back, and not rising higher nor curling up.

LEGS.-Short, straight, and muscular. and pointing forwards.

No dew claws.

Feet large,

COAT (Double).—An under coat short, close, soft and woolly. An over coat long, averaging 5 inches; hard, straight, flat, and free from crisp or curl. Hair on head shorter, softer, and veiling forehead and eyes; on ears overhanging insides, falling down and mingling with side locks, not heavily, but surrounding the ear like a fringe, and allowing its shape to appear. Tail also gracefully feathered.

COLOUR (Any variety).-Dark, light-blue, grey, or fawn with black points. Shade of head and legs approximating that of the body.

AVERAGE MEASURE

DOGS.-Height at shoulder, 9 inches.

Length, back of skull to root of tail, 221⁄2 inches.

BITCH.-Half an inch lower, and 2 inches shorter than dog, all parts proportional. Thus Body 21 inches, head 8 inches, and tail 8 inches-total, 37 inches.

AVERAGE WEIGHT

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Dogs 18 lbs., bitches 16 lbs. No dog should be over 20 nor under 16 lbs., and no bitch over 18 nor under 14 lbs.

POINT VALUES—

Size, height and length, with proportion; if 10
inches, 5; if 9 inches, 10; if 8 inches

(Scale for bitches inch lower)

15

NEGATIVE POINTS.-If over extreme weight to be handicapped 5 for every pound excess. Over or undershot mouth to disqualify. Doctored ears or tail to disqualify. No extra value for greater length of coat than

5 inches.

In the prick-eared variety the most typical dogs in the breed include Wolverley Chummie, Wolverley Duchess, Jock, and Nanette Ballochmyle Length, Wonderful and

Beautiful, Young Rosebery and Olden Times. In the drop-eared variety Duncan Grey, Lassikin, Feuriach, Perfection, and Highland Fling. I have selected Wolverley Chummie and a brace of the Countess of Aberdeen's strain, Lassikin and Tarland Tit, for illustration.

Ch. Wolverley Chummie is the property of Miss M'Cheane. He was bred by Mrs. W. J. Hughes, by Ch. Wolverley Jock ex Wolverley Rosie, and born in October 1899. He stands 9 inches at shoulder, weighs 26 lbs., and is a light-grey with black points. His mistress describes him as "very long and low to the ground; dark, full eyes; carriage of tail and ears perfect. Immense bone, very big head, coat wiry. What makes him such a perfect type is that he is absolutely in proportion, length, height, head, etc. The only fault that I can find with him, and it is a matter of taste, is that he is on the big side, and personally I prefer the smaller type. He has won 5 championships, 3 premierships, and never less than a first every time he has been shown."

Lassikin, the property of the Countess of Aberdeen, by whom it was bred, is the daughter of the well-known winner Feuriach, by Macpherson, and was born in October 1901. She is described as a very beautiful, long and low dog, 9 inches high at the shoulder, and about 37 inches long in the body, and fawn colour with black points. The second dog is her half-sister Tarland Tit, who carried off the first prize in novice, and the second prize in open and limit classes at the Kennel Club Show in 1903.

THE WELSH TERRIER

THE little Welshman is the Benjamin of the sporting terrier tribe at any rate under his present designation, for he has not yet attained his majority on the showbench. When he entered the world of exhibition he had a fight for recognition, and in the early days of his registration was bracketed with "old English wire-haired black and tan terriers "- -a bit of a mouthful to enunciate in describing a breed of dogs! It was contested that he was not a Welsh terrier at all, but one of the English variety that was common enough a century ago, and the fox terrier of the day, until that title was annexed by the modern white variety as exclusively its own. Nay, it was also said, and doubtless with truth, that a black and tan wire-haired terrier still existed in its primitive purity in our northern counties which was indistinguishable from the breed claiming to be a Welsh terrier, and that it had an equal right to nomenclature. One writer on the subject states that there was a noted dog which won repeatedly in classes provided for Welsh, and, at the same show, for old English terriers rather oftener as the latter than as the former; whilst several other specimens of the black and tan wire-haired tribe competed in a dual capacity. But Mr. W. S. Glynn declares this is quite wrong. There was a dog called Dick Turpin who got H.C. at the