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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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The
colour,
size,
and
shape
of
the
original
terriers
are
not
indicated
by
the
early
writers,
and
art
supplies
but
vague
and
uncertain
evidence.
Nicholas
Cox,
who
wrote
of
sporting
dogs
in
The
Gentleman's
Recreation
(1667),
seems
to
suggest
that
the
type
of
working
terrier
was
already
fixed
sufficiently
to
be
divided
into
two
kinds,
the
one
having
shaggy
coats
and
straight
limbs,
the
other
smooth
coats
and
short
bent
legs.
Yet
some
years
later
another
authority--Blome--in
the
same
publication
was
more
guarded
in
his
statements
as
to
the
terrier
type
when
he
wrote:
"Everybody
that
is
a
fox
hunter
is
of
opinion
that
he
hath
a
good
breed,
and
some
will
say
that
the
terrier
is
a
peculiar
species
of
itself.
I
will
not
say
anything
to
the
affirmative
or
negative
of
the
point."
Searching
for
evidence
on
the
subject,
one
finds
that
perhaps
the
earliest
references
to
the
colours
of
terriers
were
made
by
Daniel
in
his
Field
Sports
at
the
end
of
the
eighteenth
century,
when
he
described
two
sorts,
the
one
rough,
short-legged,
and
long-backed,
very
strong,
and
"most
commonly
of
a
black
or
yellowish
colour,
mixed
with
white"--evidently
a
hound-marked
dog;
and
another
smooth-coated
and
beautifully
formed,
with
a
shorter
body
and
more
sprightly
appearance,
"generally
of
a
reddish
brown
colour,
or
black
with
tanned
legs."
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