The Terriers. 



white in colour, and with a dark patch over one 

 eye. He also attempts to make the original 

 manuscript of greater antiquity than is actually 

 the case, by describing the picture as " Saxons 

 bolting a fox." 



I have no doubt this terrier record the learned 

 Strutt has given us is the oldest upon which any 

 reliance can be placed, so far as this country is 

 concerned. Some may say that the dog given is 

 not a terrier, but I believe it is intended to repre- 

 sent such a terrier as might be the common dog 

 at that time. It is little bigger than the fox 

 upon which it would like to seize, and the general 

 surroundings of the quaint picture are altogether 

 in favour of my supposition. 



Later than this, Dr. Caius, at the instigation 

 of Gesner, wrote the book on " English Dogs," 

 which, being translated from the Latin, was in 

 1576 published, this being the first book in 

 English concerning dogs. Of the terrier, Dr. 

 Caius says there is one " which hunteth the 

 Fox and the Badger or Greye onely, whom we 

 call Terrars, because they (after the manner and 

 custome of ferrets in searching for Connyes) creep 

 into the grounde, and by that meanes make 

 afrayde, nyppe and bite the Foxe and the Badger 

 in such sorte that eyther they teare them in pieces 



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