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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XXVIII
THE
OLD
WORKING
TERRIER
There
can
hardly
have
been
a
time
since
the
period
of
the
Norman
Conquest
when
the
small
earth
dogs
which
we
now
call
terriers
were
not
known
in
these
islands
and
used
by
sporting
men
as
assistants
in
the
chase,
and
by
husbandmen
for
the
killing
of
obnoxious
vermin.
The
two
little
dogs
shown
in
the
Bayeux
tapestry
running
with
the
hounds
in
advance
of
King
Harold's
hawking
party
were
probably
meant
for
terriers.
Dame
Juliana
Berners
in
the
fifteenth
century
did
not
neglect
to
include
the
"Teroures"
in
her
catalogue
of
sporting
dogs,
and
a
hundred
years
later
Dr.
Caius
gave
pointed
recognition
to
their
value
in
unearthing
the
fox
and
drawing
the
badger.
"Another
sorte,
there
is,"
wrote
the
doctor's
translator
in
1576,
"which
hunteth
the
Fox
and
the
Badger
or
Greye
onely,
whom
we
call
Terrars,
because
they
(after
the
manner
and
custome
of
ferrets
in
searching
for
Connyes)
creep
into
the
grounde,
and
by
that
meanes
make
afrayde,
nyppe
and
bite
the
Foxe
and
the
Badger
in
such
sorte
that
eyther
they
teare
them
in
pieces
with
theyr
teeth,
beying
in
the
bosome
of
the
earth,
or
else
hayle
and
pull
them
perforce
out
of
theyr
lurking
angles,
darke
dongeons,
and
close
caues;
or
at
the
least
through
cocened
feare
drive
them
out
of
theire
hollow
harbours,
in
so
much
that
they
are
compelled
to
prepare
speedie
flyte,
and,
being
desirous
of
the
next
(albeit
not
the
safest)
refuge,
are
otherwise
taken
and
intrapped
with
snayres
and
nettes
layde
over
holes
to
the
same
purpose.
But
these
be
the
least
in
that
kynde
called
Sagax."
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