4 i6 BRITISH DOGS 



Light eyes, once a bugbear of the Airedale Terrier breeder, have 

 almost disappeared, as has also the need for the extensive trimming 

 on neck and jaws. 



" Waterside Terrier " was, no doubt, an applicable name to this 

 at that time rough-and-tumble dog, who is equally happy wet or dry, 

 and is especially useful, by reason of his strength and his hardihood, 

 to work in and about the rapid streams of hilly Yorkshire. It had 

 the disadvantage, however, of being too general in its application, 

 as being descriptive of work also done by other quite distinct 

 varieties of Terriers. 



The Airedale Terrier (Fig. 94) gives one the impression of being 



p IG> 94. MR. W. H. JOHNSON'S AIREDALE TERRIER BRIARWOOD. 



a sort of giant relation of the Dandie Dinmont and the Bedlington, 

 with more than a dash of Otterhound in his composition. That he 

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

 remote, there can be no doubt, and this was particularly noticeable 

 in the dogs that one met with even ten years or so ago : the 

 breeder, however, has changed all that, and it is the exception rather 

 than the rule to meet with a big-eared specimen in the present day. 

 This Terrier is considerably larger than his near relatives, ranging 

 from 4olb. to 45lb., 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 



