The Terriers. 13 



alludes to black or white terriers, and from these 

 two varieties white ones with black marks could 

 easily be produced. The same author mentions 

 a strain of terriers so like a fox in colour that 

 " awkward people frequently mistake the one for the 

 other." 



Between the years 1800 and 1815, an unusually 

 large number of sporting books and works on 

 hunting and dogs were published, all of which 

 dealt more or less with terriers. " The Sporting 

 Dictionary," 1803, says, " Terriers of even the 

 best blood are now bred of all colours red, black 

 with tan faces, flanks, feet, and legs ; brindled, 

 sandy, some few brown pied, white pied, and pure 

 white ; as well as one sort of each colour rough 

 and wire-haired, the other soft and smooth ; and, 

 what is rather more extraordinary, the latter not 

 much deficient in courage to the former, but the 

 rough breed must be acknowledged the most 

 severe and invincible biter of the two. . . . Four 

 and five guineas is no great price for a handsome 

 and well-bred terrier." 



Here we have a description of the terrier very 

 much as he still remains. There are the red or 

 fawn in colour, which may be represented to-day 

 by the Irish variety; the black with tan faces of 

 the so-called Welsh terrier, or the black and tan 



