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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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"The
terrier
of
the
West
Highlands
of
Scotland
has
come
down
to
the
present
day,
built
on
what
I
may
perhaps
call
the
fox
lines,
and
it
is
a
type
evolved
by
work--hard
and
deadly
dangerous
work.
It
is
only
of
late
years
that
dogs
have
been
bred
for
show.
The
so-called
'Scottish'
Terrier,
which
at
present
rules
the
roost,
dates
from
1879
as
a
show
dog.
"I
therefore
earnestly
hope
that
no
fancy
will
arise
about
these
dogs
which
will
make
them
less
hardy,
less
wise,
less
companionable,
less
active,
or
less
desperate
fighters
underground
than
they
are
at
present.
A
young
dog
that
I
gave
to
a
keeper
got
its
stomach
torn
open
in
a
fight.
It
came
out
of
the
cairn
to
its
master
to
be
helped.
He
put
the
entrails
back
to
the
best
of
his
ability,
and
then
the
dog
slipped
out
of
his
hands
to
finish
the
fight,
and
forced
the
fox
out
into
the
open!
That
is
the
spirit
of
the
breed;
but,
alas,
that
cannot
be
exhibited
on
the
show
bench.
They
do
say
that
a
keeper
of
mine,
when
chaffed
by
the
'fancy'
about
the
baby
faces
of
his
'lot,'
was
driven
to
ask,
'Well,
can
any
of
you
gentlemen
oblige
me
with
a
cat,
and
I'll
show
you?'
I
did
not
hear
him
say
it,
so
it
may
only
be
a
tale.
"Anyhow,
I
have
in
my
kennel
a
dog
who,
at
ten
months
old,
met
a
vixen
fox
as
she
was
bolting
out
of
her
cairn,
and
he
at
once
caught
her
by
the
throat,
stuck
to
her
till
the
pack
came
up,
and
then
on
till
she
was
killed.
In
the
course
of
one
month
his
wounds
were
healed,
and
he
had
two
other
classical
fights,
one
with
a
cat
and
the
other
with
a
dog
fox.
Not
bad
for
a
pup
with
a
'baby
face?'
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