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both in quantity and quality. Or, yet again, I might have called him 

 ' The Waterside Terrier,' for by that also he is known well, and a very 

 applicable name it is for this rough-and-tumble customer, who is equally 

 happy wet or dry, and is not to be excelled in questing and hunting, 

 either game or vermin, by land or water ; but, applicable as it is, I fear 

 the partisans of several other kinds would, with good show of justice, lay 

 equal claim to it, and, what is more, prove their right ; so, although he 

 may be indeed, is par excellence the waterside terrier of his native vales, 

 I cannot give him an exclusive right to the title, and fall back on my 

 selection, the Bingley Terrier, as being at once short, unambiguous, 

 distinctive, and easily said which is in itself no mean advantage. 



"The ' Bingley Terrier,' as I shall call the dog, gives one the impression 

 of being a sort of giant relation of the Dan die Dinmont and the Bedlington. 

 That he has a lot of hound blood in him, whether the infusion be recent 

 or remote, there can be no doubt, and I hold that both the other breeds 

 have the same. He is considerably larger than either, ranging from 351b. 

 to 451b., very strongly built, the ribs rounder, and the haunches wider and 

 more muscular than the Bedlington, and he is much longer in the leg, and 

 consequently proportionately shorter in the body than the Dandie; he is, 

 like the latter, very strong in the jaw, and the whole head is large ; the 

 ears fall close to the cheeks, rather wider and shorter for the size of the 

 dog than in either of the other two breeds ; the neck rather strong than 

 neat ; the whole body stout and compact, and good muscular shoulders, 

 over useful straight strong legs and good feet ; the hind quarters are firm 

 and square, finished off by a thick coarsish tail, docked to about 6in. or 

 7in. ; the coat is a right useful one, short, and broken, much harder to 

 the feel than it looks, being a good mixture of hard and soft hair, and, in 

 fact, just the coat to get dry after an immersion with a few good shakes 

 and a roll in the grass ; the prevailing colour is grizzle of various shades 

 with tan, variously distributed, but showing a saddle back with tan legs, 

 tan about face, &c., and with the hair on the top of the head lighter and 

 much softer than on the body, as in both Bedlingtons and Dandies. 



"I am told he is generally a generous-dispositioned, good tempered 

 dog, bold and resolute in work, very hardy, the day never being too 

 wet, too cold, or too long for him, so long as there is sport ; and whether 

 for rat or otter, duck or water hen, he is equally good, unexcelled in 

 nose, eager at questing, and as game as obedient." 



