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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XXIX
THE
WHITE
ENGLISH
TERRIER
This
dog,
one
would
think,
ought,
by
the
dignified
title
which
he
bears,
to
be
considered
a
representative
national
terrier,
forming
a
fourth
in
the
distinctively
British
quartette
whose
other
members
are
the
Scottish,
the
Irish,
and
the
Welsh
Terriers.
Possibly
in
the
early
days
when
Pearson
and
Roocroft
bred
him
to
perfection
it
was
hoped
and
intended
that
he
should
become
a
breed
typical
of
England.
He
is
still
the
only
terrier
who
owns
the
national
name,
but
he
has
long
ago
yielded
pride
of
place
to
the
Fox-terrier,
and
it
is
the
case
that
the
best
specimens
of
his
race
are
bred
north
of
the
border,
while,
instead
of
being
the
most
popular
dog
in
the
land,
he
is
actually
one
of
the
most
neglected
and
the
most
seldom
seen.
At
the
Kennel
Club
Show
of
1909
there
was
not
a
single
specimen
of
the
breed
on
view,
nor
was
one
to
be
found
at
the
recent
shows
at
Edinburgh,
Birmingham,
Manchester,
or
Islington,
nor
at
the
National
Terrier
Show
at
Westminster.
It
is
a
pity
that
so
smart
and
beautiful
a
dog
should
be
suffered
to
fall
into
such
absolute
neglect.
One
wonders
what
the
reason
of
it
can
be.
Possibly
it
is
that
the
belief
still
prevails
that
he
is
of
delicate
constitution,
and
is
not
gifted
with
a
great
amount
of
intelligence
or
sagacity;
there
is
no
doubt,
however,
that
a
potent
factor
in
hastening
the
decline
is
to
be
found
in
the
edict
against
cropping.
Neither
the
White
Terrier
nor
the
Manchester
Terrier
has
since
been
anything
like
so
popular
as
they
both
were
before
April,
1898,
when
the
Kennel
Club
passed
the
law
that
dogs'
ears
must
not
be
cropped.
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