CHAPTER LV 

 THE YORKSHIRE TERRIER 



NOWHERE in England are dog shows so popular as in the counties 

 of Lancaster and York and their immediate borders ; and here 

 the Yorkshire Terrier, a manufacture of comparatively recent 

 years, finds its greatest number of admirers. The dog long went 

 by the name of Rough or Scotch Terrier. To call them Scotch 

 Terriers was a misnomer, the true Scotch Terrier being a much 

 rougher, shorter, and harder-coated dog, of greater size and hardi- 

 ness, and altogether a rough-and-tumble, working vermin-dog, with 

 no pretensions to the beauty and elegance of the little " Yorkshire 

 swell." At one time the Kennel Club classed the Yorkshire Terrier 

 as "Rough- and Broken-coated," Broken-haired Scotch and Yorkshire 

 Terriers," and still more recently as " Toy Terriers (Rough)." It 

 was not until 1886 that the name by which they are universally 

 known received the hall-mark of authority. 



That the Yorkshire Terrier should have been called Scotch by 

 those who, although they may have the credit of producing this dog, 

 probably did not know of the existence of the real Scotch Terrier as 

 a breed, suggests that at least a Terrier of Scotland has had some- 

 thing to do with his manufacture. Mr. Dalziel's theory respecting 

 the origin of the Yorkshire Terrier was that the dog was what 



Gardeners call "a sport" from some lucky combination of one of the 

 cotch Terriers either the genuine Skye or the Paisley Terrier and 

 one of the old, soft, and longish-coated Black-and-tan English Terriers, 

 at one time common enough, and probably one of these with a dash 

 of Maltese blood in it. 



However first obtained, we have at least got them now, and most 

 owners are satisfied if they can claim a strain of the blood of the 

 famous Huddersfield Ben, who combined in himself the blood of 

 three illustrious predecessors Walshaw's Sandy, Ramsden's Bounce, 

 and Inman's Don and was bred by Mr. W. Eastwood, of Hudders- 

 field, more than thirty years ago. 



Although the Yorkshire Terrier is essentially a toy dog, many 

 of them are not wanting in pluck, and some of the breed have proved 



