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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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When
the
soft-coated
dogs
are
clipped
they
are
operated
on,
say,
two
or
three
months
before
they
are
wanted,
and
the
hair
gets
a
chance
to
grow,
but
even
then
it
is
easily
discernible,
and
anyone
who,
like
the
writer,
has
any
experience
of
clipping
dogs
in
order
to
cure
them
of
that
awful
disease,
follicular
mange,
knows
what
a
sight
the
animal
is
when
he
grows
his
coat,
and
how
terribly
unnatural
he
looks.
The
wire-hair
has
never
been
in
better
state
than
he
is
to-day;
he
is,
generally
speaking,
far
ahead
of
his
predecessors
of
twenty-five
years
ago,
not
only
from
a
show
point
of
view,
but
also
in
working
qualities.
One
has
only
to
compare
the
old
portraits
of
specimens
of
the
variety
with
dogs
of
the
present
day
to
see
this.
A
good
many
individual
specimens
of
excellent
merit,
it
is
true,
there
were,
but
they
do
not
seem
to
have
been
immortalised
in
this
way.
The
portraits
of
those
we
do
see
are
mostly
representations
of
awful-looking
brutes,
as
bad
in
shoulders,
and
light
of
bone,
as
they
could
be;
they
appear
also
to
have
had
very
soft
coats,
somewhat
akin
to
that
we
see
on
a
Pomeranian
nowadays,
though
it
is
true
this
latter
fault
may
have
been
that
of
the
artist,
or
probably
amplified
by
him.
Perhaps
the
strongest
kennel
of
wire-hairs
that
has
existed
was
that
owned
a
good
many
years
ago
by
Messrs.
Maxwell
and
Cassell.
Several
champions
were
in
the
kennel
at
the
same
time,
and
they
were
a
sorty
lot
of
nice
size,
and
won
prizes
all
over
the
country.
Jack
Frost,
Jacks
Again,
Liffey,
Barton
Wonder,
Barton
Marvel,
and
several
other
good
ones,
were
inmates
of
this
kennel,
the
two
latter
especially
being
high-class
terriers,
which
at
one
time
were
owned
by
Sir
H.
de
Trafford.
Barton
Marvel
was
a
very
beautiful
bitch,
and
probably
the
best
of
those
named
above,
though
Barton
Wonder
was
frequently
put
above
her.
Sir
H.
de
Trafford
had
for
years
a
very
good
kennel
of
the
variety,
and
at
that
time
was
probably
the
biggest
and
best
buyer.
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