The Black and Tan Terrier. 329 



processes of the Manchester and Birmingham showmen, is one of those 

 that would make but a poor figure at underground work. The legs 

 and feet are too slender and elegant for digging, and their satin-like coat 

 is not the sort of covering in which to face wet grass and dank woods. 



Whilst on the subject of the coats of terriers I must notice a rather 

 curious and, I think, altogether erroneous supposition of Youatt's on the 

 subject. He says, " the rough terrier possibly obtained his shaggy coat 

 from the cur, and the smooth terrier may derive his from the hound." 

 The cur he elsewhere describes as a cross between the sheepdog and the 

 terrier, but there are rough-coated as well as smooth-coated hounds, and 

 the terrier was placed by Caius among the hounds, between the harrier 

 and the bloodhound in fact, and he states him to be the " smallest of the 

 kind called Sag ax." Now, if there always have been hounds, both 

 smooth and rough, it is surely quite as likely there have also always been 

 smooth and rough terriers. 



Caius says nothing about the length of coat or the colour of his 

 terriers. Daniels, in his " Eural Sports," makes special mention of the 

 elegant and sprightly smooth-coated terrier, black in body and tanned 

 on the legs ; and in foxhound kennels of the last and early in this century 

 terriers of all colours were kept red ones, brindled, brown pied, white 

 pied, pure white and black with tanned faces, flank, feet, and legs, and 

 all of these were kept for work, not for show work requiring the 

 strength, fortitude, ardour, and indomitable pluck of a genuine terrier, 

 for a working terrier worthy of the name should be as " hard as nails," 

 active as a cat, and lively as a cricket. 



The old style of black and tan terrier was stronger but not so elegantly 

 built as his modern representative, and still we may occasionally see the 

 stouter-limbed, broader-chested, thicker-headed, and coarser-coated dog 

 that illustrates the original from which our show dog has sprung. 



Dog shows have, no doubt, had much to do with transforming the 

 rather "cloddy" rough-and-tumble black and tan into the graceful and 

 refined animal of our show benches ; and noted among breeders who 

 had a large share in producing this dog of the day stands the name of 

 the late Mr. Sam Handley, who in the earlier years of dog shows success- 

 fully exhibited, and became generally recognised as the greatest authority 

 and most expert judge of this breed especially, although also of many 

 other varieties in which he took an interest. 



