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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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CHAPTER
XLII
THE
YORKSHIRE
TERRIER
The
most
devout
lover
of
this
charming
and
beautiful
terrier
would
fail
if
he
were
to
attempt
to
claim
for
him
the
distinction
of
descent
from
antiquity.
Bradford,
and
not
Babylon,
was
his
earliest
home,
and
he
must
be
candidly
acknowledged
to
be
a
very
modern
manufactured
variety
of
the
dog.
Yet
it
is
important
to
remember
that
it
was
in
Yorkshire
that
he
was
made--Yorkshire,
where
live
the
cleverest
breeders
of
dogs
that
the
world
has
known.
One
can
roughly
reconstitute
the
process.
What
the
Yorkshiremen
desired
to
make
for
themselves
was
a
pigmy,
prick-eared
terrier
with
a
long,
silky,
silvery
grey
and
tan
coat.
They
already
possessed
the
foundation
in
the
old
English
Black
and
Tan
wire-haired
Terrier.
To
lengthen
the
coat
of
this
working
breed
they
might
very
well
have
had
recourse
to
a
cross
with
the
prick-eared
Skye,
and
to
eliminate
the
wiry
texture
of
the
hair
a
further
cross
with
the
Maltese
dog
would
impart
softness
and
silkiness
without
reducing
the
length.
Again,
a
cross
with
the
Clydesdale,
which
was
then
assuming
a
fixed
type,
would
bring
the
variety
yet
nearer
to
the
ideal,
and
a
return
to
the
black
and
tan
would
tend
to
conserve
the
desired
colour.
In
all
probability
the
Dandie
Dinmont
had
some
share
in
the
process.
Evidence
of
origin
is
often
to
be
found
more
distinctly
in
puppies
than
in
the
mature
dog,
and
it
is
to
be
noted
that
the
puppies
of
both
the
Dandie
and
the
Yorkshire
are
born
with
decided
black
and
tan
colouring.
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