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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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In
the
early
days
the
smooth
was
not
crossed
with
the
wire
to
anything
like
the
extent
that
it
was
later,
and
this
fact
is
probably
the
cause
of
the
salvation
of
the
variety.
The
wire-hair
has
had
more
harm
done
to
him
by
his
being
injudiciously
crossed
with
the
smooth
than
probably
by
anything
else.
The
greatest
care
must
be
exercised
in
the
matter
of
coat
before
any
such
cross
is
effected.
The
smooth
that
is
crossed
with
the
wire
must
have
a
really
hard,
and
not
too
full
coat,
and,
as
there
are
very,
very
few
smooths
now
being
shown
with
anything
like
a
proper
coat
for
a
terrier
to
possess,
the
very
greatest
caution
is
necessary.
Some
few
years
back,
almost
incalculable
harm
was
done
to
the
variety
by
a
considerable
amount
of
crossing
into
a
strain
of
smooths
with
terribly
soft
flannelly
coats.
Good-looking
terriers
were
produced,
and
therein
lay
the
danger,
but
their
coats
were
as
bad
as
bad
could
be;
and,
though
people
were
at
first
too
prone
to
look
over
this
very
serious
fault,
they
now
seem
to
have
recovered
their
senses,
and
thus,
although
much
harm
was
done,
any
serious
damage
has
been
averted.
If
a
person
has
a
full-coated
wire-hair
bitch
he
is
too
apt
to
put
her
to
a
smooth
simply
because
it
is
a
smooth,
whom
he
thinks
will
neutralise
the
length
of
his
bitch's
jacket,
but
this
is
absolute
heresy,
and
must
not
be
done
unless
the
smooth
has
the
very
hardest
of
hair
on
him.
If
it
is
done,
the
result
is
too
horrible
for
words:
you
get
an
elongated,
smooth,
full
coat
as
soft
as
cotton
wool,
and
sometimes
as
silkily
wavy
as
a
lady's
hair.
This
is
not
a
coat
for
any
terrier
to
possess,
and
it
is
not
a
wire-hair
terrier's
coat,
which
ought
to
be
a
hard,
crinkly,
peculiar-looking
broken
coat
on
top,
with
a
dense
undercoat
underneath,
and
must
never
be
mistakable
for
an
elongated
smooth
terrier's
coat,
which
can
never
at
any
time
be
a
protection
from
wind,
water,
or
dirt,
and
is,
in
reality,
the
reverse.
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