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CHAPTER I. 

 THE TERRIERS. 



MANY of the varieties of the terrier we possess at 

 the present time, and which as a group are doubt- 

 less the most popular of the canine race, are of 

 quite modern origin, although no doubt there was 

 a dog of similar appearance to the terrier co- 

 existent with the original dog, whatever the latter 

 may have been. 



Our earliest writers on the subject have acknow- 

 ledged the terrier, an animal so named because 

 it was occasionally employed underground in the 

 earth, to force the fox, badger, and otter from 

 their lairs, and it has been said to have been 

 used for the purpose of driving rabbits from their 

 burrows, in the manner ferrets do at the present 

 time. The bolting of rabbits is, no doubt, a fable, 

 and, although we now have terriers more diminutive 



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