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shows, and the breed commanded considerable attention, especially when the 

 dog had plenty of courage and intelligence; but this was the exception. As a 

 rule, the show Terrier is not a hardy nor a courageous dog. Most of his life 

 has been passed in a highly varnished mahogany kennel, by a bar-parlor fire, 

 or in the arms of some opulent or quasi-opulent dog-breeder, whose chief voca- 

 tion is to show his ' ' stud " of Terriers for cups and collars. 



Twenty-five years ago the colored or partly colored dog, fallow, or even 

 brindled, or with head and body markings, would have had a chance of a prize 

 at these public-house meetings; but since the exhibition of dogs has been a 

 prominent feature in the fashionable amusements of large cities, the dog has 

 been so cultivated that white dogs only are admissible. 



WHITE ENGLISH TERRIER WHITE PRINCE (A. K. C. S. B. 16733). 

 Owned by Mr. E. F. Burns, Taunton, Mass. 



I have little doubt that these London and Manchester Terriers were ' ' the 

 pick" of what are now commonly received as Fox Terriers, purchased up and 

 down the country by those agents who have a roving commission to ' ' snap 

 up " anything which they can find which is neat and salable. These smart 

 country Terriers were collected in London by the keen-eyed " fancy," and frmn 

 these the White Terrier was gradually produced. 



None of these breeders can trace their breed for many years; and all the 

 best white dogs were the sons of one known in London as King Dick. He was 

 succeeded by his son, known as Young King Dick; but neither of these dogs, 

 so far as I remember, were equal to some dogs exhibited in 1863, by Frederick 

 White, of Crescent Lane, Clapham Common, named Fly, Laddie, Nettle, and 

 Teddy. Twenty dogs were entered in the class, but Mr. White's were the 



