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far better Terrier badly shown. Since Mr. Ludlow's words appeared 

 in print there has been a marked improvement in the direction of 

 coats, and doubtless with the .new regulations of the Kennel Club 

 in respect of trimming the practice will eventually cease. That 

 it is unfair to novices goes without saying ; while that it is a most 

 stupid and unnatural practice calculated to injure rather than 

 improve the individual is also equally true. The remedy for long 

 and woolly coats is a simple one, and lies in the hands of the 

 breeder, and this is the only " improvement " that should be 

 allowed by the powers that be. There can be no denying that the 

 breeder has genuinely improved " Scottie " with respect to his front. 

 Time was when his fore legs were not considered typical unless they 



FIG. 98. DR. FLAXMAN'S WHITE SCOTTISH TERRIER PITTENWEEM KING 



KONG. 



were crooked. He has changed all that, and nowadays a crooked- 

 fronted dog would not be tolerated in the show-ring. Why, there- 

 fore, should one be whose coat is only of the requisite length when 

 it is made so artificially ? 



With Scottish Terriers, as with all other breeds, nature is 

 occasionally sportive, and we therefore come across, now and again, 

 colours that, according to our somewhat restricted views, may be 

 considered " foreign " to the breed. It is now very well known 

 that white Scottish Terriers have been produced, and that these have 

 found more or less favour. Indeed, Dr. Flaxman, of Pittenweem, 

 Fife, has for some considerable time now familiarised frequenters 

 of the larger exhibitions with these colour-sports. One of these 

 dogs is illustrated at Fig. 98. The colour is usually a creamy-white. 

 The late Captain Keene was one of the first to place these 



