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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Scottish
Terriers
frequently
go
by
the
name
of
Aberdeen
Terriers--an
appellation,
it
is
true,
usually
heard
only
from
the
lips
of
people
who
do
not
know
much
about
them.
Mr.
W.
L.
McCandlish,
one
of
the
greatest
living
authorities
on
the
breed,
in
an
able
treatise
published
some
time
back,
tells
us,
in
reference
to
this
matter,
that
the
terrier
under
notice
went
at
different
periods
under
the
names
of
Highland,
Cairn,
Aberdeen,
and
Scotch;
that
he
is
now
known
by
the
proud
title
of
Scottish
Terrier;
and
that
"the
only
surviving
trace
of
the
differing
nomenclature
is
the
title
Aberdeen,
which
many
people
still
regard
as
a
different
breed--a
want
of
knowledge
frequently
turned
to
account
by
the
unscrupulous
dealer
who
is
able
to
sell
under
the
name
of
Aberdeen
a
dog
too
bad
to
dispose
of
as
a
Scottish
Terrier."
But
there
can
be
no
doubt
that
originally
there
must
have
been
some
reason
for
the
name.
In
a
letter
to
the
writer,
Sir
Paynton
Pigott
says,
"Some
people
call
them
and
advertise
them
as
the
Aberdeen
Terrier,
which
is
altogether
a
mistake;
but
the
reason
of
it
is
that
forty
years
ago
a
Dr.
Van
Bust,
who
lived
in
Aberdeen,
bred
these
terriers
to
a
large
extent
and
sold
them,
and
those
buying
them
called
them,
in
consequence,
'Aberdeen
Terriers,'
whereas
they
were
in
reality
merely
a
picked
sort
of
Old
Scotch
or
Highland
Terrier."
Sir
Paynton
himself,
as
appears
from
the
columns
of
The
Live
Stock
Journal
(March
2nd,
1877),
bought
some
of
the
strain
of
Van
Bust,
and
therein
gives
a
full
description
of
the
same.
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