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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XXX
THE
BLACK
AND
TAN
TERRIER
The
Black
and
Tan,
or
Manchester,
Terrier
as
we
know
him
to-day
is
a
comparatively
new
variety,
and
he
is
not
to
be
confounded
with
the
original
terrier
with
tan
and
black
colouring
which
was
referred
to
by
Dr.
Caius
in
the
sixteenth
century,
and
which
was
at
that
time
used
for
going
to
ground
and
driving
out
badgers
and
foxes.
Formerly
there
was
but
little
regard
paid
to
colour
and
markings,
and
there
was
a
considerably
greater
proportion
of
tan
in
the
coat
than
there
is
at
the
present
day,
while
the
fancy
markings,
such
as
pencilled
toes,
thumb
marks,
and
kissing
spots
were
not
cultivated.
The
general
outline
of
the
dog,
too,
was
less
graceful
and
altogether
coarser.
During
the
first
half
of
the
nineteenth
century
the
chief
accomplishment
of
this
terrier
was
rat-killing.
There
are
some
extraordinary
accounts
of
his
adroitness,
as
well
as
courage,
in
destroying
these
vermin.
The
feats
of
a
dog
called
Billy
are
recorded.
He
was
matched
to
destroy
one
hundred
large
rats
in
eight
minutes
and
a
half.
The
rats
were
brought
into
the
ring
in
bags,
and
as
soon
as
the
number
was
complete
Billy
was
put
over
the
railing
into
their
midst.
In
six
minutes
and
thirty-five
seconds
they
were
all
destroyed.
In
another
match
he
killed
the
same
number
in
six
minutes
and
thirteen
seconds.
It
was
a
popular
terrier
in
Lancashire,
and
it
was
in
this
county
that
the
refining
process
in
his
shape
and
colouring
was
practised,
and
where
he
came
by
the
name
of
the
Manchester
Terrier.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
