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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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The
original
broken-haired
Yorkshire
Terrier
of
thirty
years
ago
was
often
called
a
Scottish
Terrier,
or
even
a
Skye,
and
there
are
many
persons
who
still
confound
him
with
the
Clydesdale,
whom
he
somewhat
closely
resembles.
At
the
present
time
he
is
classified
as
a
toy
dog
and
exhibited
almost
solely
as
such.
It
is
to
be
regretted
that
until
very
lately
the
terrier
character
was
being
gradually
bred
out
of
him,
and
that
the
perkiness,
the
exuberance
and
gameness
which
once
distinguished
him
as
the
companion
of
the
Yorkshire
operative,
was
in
danger
of
being
sacrificed
to
the
desire
for
diminutive
size
and
inordinate
length
of
coat.
Perhaps
it
would
be
an
error
to
blame
the
breeders
of
Yorkshire
Terriers
for
this
departure
from
the
original
type
as
it
appeared,
say,
about
1870.
It
is
necessary
to
take
into
consideration
the
probability
that
what
is
now
called
the
old-fashioned
working
variety
was
never
regarded
by
the
Yorkshiremen
who
made
him
as
a
complete
and
finished
achievement.
It
was
possibly
their
idea
at
the
very
beginning
to
produce
just
such
a
diminutive
dog
as
is
now
to
be
seen
in
its
perfection
at
exhibitions,
glorying
in
its
flowing
tresses
of
steel
blue
silk
and
ruddy
gold;
and
one
must
give
them
full
credit
for
the
patience
and
care
with
which
during
the
past
forty
years
they
have
been
steadily
working
to
the
fixed
design
of
producing
a
dwarfed
breed
which
should
excel
all
other
breeds
in
the
length
and
silkiness
of
its
robe.
The
extreme
of
cultivation
in
this
particular
quality
was
reached
some
years
ago
by
Mrs.
Troughear,
whose
little
dog
Conqueror,
weighing
5-1/2
lb.,
had
a
beautiful
enveloping
mantle
of
the
uniform
length
of
four-and-twenty
inches.
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