14 Modern Dogs. 



terrier; and the white, and white and pied of the 

 ordinary fox terrier." 



In Bingley's " Memoir of British Quadrupeds " 

 (1809), two terriers are beautifully etched by 

 Howitt. The copy in my library has coloured 

 plates, and one of them delineates two terriers, one 

 of which, with a rather heavy coat, is apparently 

 dark blue and tan in hue, with semi-erect ears and 

 an uncut tail. The other dog is smooth-coated, 

 with erect ears, black and tan in colour, and each 

 would be about 2olb. in weight. In his description 

 Bingley says, " The terrier is a fierce, keen, and 

 hardy animal . . . some are rough and others 

 .smooth-haired ; are generally reddish brown or 

 black, of a long form, short-legged and strongly 

 bristled about the muzzle." 



Daniel, in his " Rural Sports" (1801), does not 

 tell us anything particularly new about the terrier, 

 nor does he attempt to throw any light upon its 

 origin, but the " Sportsman's Cabinet," published 

 two years later, gives an engraving from a picture 

 by Reinagle, of these terriers, two of which are 

 more or less white and patched, the other darker 

 in colour, with a white collar and white on his 

 muzzle, their ears are erect, their coats fairly dense 

 or hard, and they are engaged at a fox-earth, or 

 something of the kind. These terriers of Reinagle's 



