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which he could not possibly return, and many and 

 many a time have the Dandie Dinmonts had to be 

 lifted through the fences over which a straight- 

 legged dog could scramble. 



In addition to the usual varieties as they are 

 commonly known, named, and recognised in the 

 Stud Books, I have appended a chapter on what 

 may be called actually working terriers ; such 

 animals as have been kept in certain districts and 

 by certain families as the best for the purposes for 

 which they were originally produced. Such dogs 

 have survived for their work alone, for their hardi- 

 hood and gameness, and will no doubt continue so 

 to do to the end. Perhaps there may be so-called 

 varieties of these rough-coated, hardy terriers not 

 mentioned by me ; but, of course, I cannot do more 

 than allude to such as I have seen, and with which I 

 have been personally acquainted. 



The " Border terriers," as I have stated, have 

 been for a long time indigenous to the Border 

 counties, and extending even so far south as West- 

 moreland, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. In some 

 localities their noses have, as it were, been put out 

 of joint by " new breeds," which are probably 

 smarter in appearance, and more taking to the eye. 

 The Sealy Ham terriers have had a reputation in 

 certain districts in Wales for over half a century. 



