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shown when in the natural state it looking so much smaller 

 and longer. The length of coat on the body should be con- 

 siderable, but should not be so great as to entirely hide the 

 animal's shape or to touch the ground. On the head, it 

 should be long, overhanging the eyes, often so as to com- 

 pletely conceal them. The tail should be well feathered, 

 but not so as to make it appear bushy or woolly. The legs 

 also should have a certain amount of feather, but without 

 any approach to matting. 



The colors should be black and slate, or black with white 

 hairs, silver gray, or fawn. Silver gray is certainly the 

 handsomest for a lady's pet, especially. This latter 

 should be tipped with black, and the fawn with black or 

 dark-brown. 



Size and symmetry. The Skye Terrier should stand 

 from nine to ten inches high at the shoulder, and his length 

 from end of nose to tip of tail should be from thirty -five to 

 forty inches; the prick-eared variety a trifle shorter in 

 proportion to his height. The weight should be from six- 

 teen to twenty pounds. He should display perfect sym- 

 metry in his proportions. 



In preparing the Skye for the bench, the all-important 

 point to be looked after is the coat. No matter how good a 

 dog may be otherwise, if his coat is in bad shape when he 

 faces the judge, he has to go to the wall. The principal 

 thing to do to get the coat in good shape is to keep the 

 skin healthy by means of proper exercise and feeding; this, 

 together with protecting the coat for the time from wet and 

 dirt, and by proper washing and brushing, which, however, 

 must not be overdone, will bring about the desired result. 



The subject of our illustration, Lovat, the property of 

 Mr. Cornelius Stevenson, of Philadelphia, was bred by Mr. 

 A. Cromby, of Edinburgh, and was whelped April 10, 1887. 

 His sire is Sir William Wallace; dam, Daisy. His winnings 

 are: Second, Ayr; second, Glasgow; second, Greenock; 

 second, Paisley; first and special, Dundee; first and special, 

 Dunfermline; first, New York, 1889, and first and special, 

 Philadelphia, 1889. 



