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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Some
of
the
breeds
of
terriers
seen
nowadays
in
every
dog
show
were
equally
obscure
and
unknown
a
few
years
back.
Thirty-seven
years
ago
the
now
popular
Irish
Terrier
was
practically
unknown
in
England,
and
the
Scottish
Terrier
was
only
beginning
to
be
recognised
as
a
distinct
breed.
The
Welsh
Terrier
is
quite
a
new
introduction
that
a
dozen
or
so
years
ago
was
seldom
seen
outside
the
Principality;
and
so
recently
as
1881
the
Airedale
was
merely
a
local
dog
known
in
Yorkshire
as
the
Waterside
or
the
Bingley
Terrier.
Yet
the
breeds
just
mentioned
are
all
of
unimpeachable
ancestry,
and
the
circumstance
that
they
were
formerly
bred
within
limited
neighbourhoods
is
in
itself
an
argument
in
favour
of
their
purity.
We
have
seen
the
process
of
a
sudden
leap
into
recognition
enacted
during
the
past
few
years
in
connection
with
the
white
terrier
of
the
Western
Highlands--a
dog
which
was
familiarly
known
in
Argyllshire
centuries
ago,
yet
which
has
only
lately
emerged
from
the
heathery
hillsides
around
Poltalloch
to
become
an
attraction
on
the
benches
at
the
Crystal
Palace
and
on
the
lawns
of
the
Botanical
Gardens;
and
the
example
suggests
the
possibility
that
in
another
decade
or
so
the
neglected
Sealyham
Terrier,
the
ignored
terrier
of
the
Borders,
and
the
almost
forgotten
Jack
Russell
strain,
may
have
claimed
a
due
recompense
for
their
long
neglect.
There
are
lovers
of
the
hard-bitten
working
"earth
dogs"
who
still
keep
these
strains
inviolate,
and
who
greatly
prefer
them
to
the
better-known
terriers
whose
natural
activities
have
been
too
often
atrophied
by
a
system
of
artificial
breeding
to
show
points.
Few
of
these
old
unregistered
breeds
would
attract
the
eye
of
the
fancier
accustomed
to
judge
a
dog
parading
before
him
in
the
show
ring.
To
know
their
value
and
to
appreciate
their
sterling
good
qualities,
one
needs
to
watch
them
at
work
on
badger
or
when
they
hit
upon
the
line
of
an
otter.
It
is
then
that
they
display
the
alertness
and
the
dare-devil
courage
which
have
won
for
the
English
terriers
their
name
and
fame.
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