CHAPTER III. 

 THE ENGLISH WHITE TERRIER. 



ON several occasions I have quoted the number of 

 entries in the " Kennel Club Stud Book" as indica- 

 tive of the rise or fall in popularity of the different 

 varieties of dogs to which they allude. These figures 

 must not always be taken as an actual and infallible 

 guide either one way or the other, for when the first 

 volume was published the registration of dogs was, 

 as it were, in its infancy. The general public knew 

 little about the thing, and only those intimately con- 

 nected with shows as exhibitors and breeders took the 

 trouble to have their dogs entered. This is not so 

 now, for pretty nearly everyone who has a dog of 

 good pedigree will have him entered in the " Stud 

 Book," whether it be shown or not. 



However, so far as the little terrier whose name 

 heads this chapter is concerned, the inference may 

 be correctly drawn, for no one believes that this, the 

 most fragile and delicate of all our terriers, is so 

 common and easily to be found as he was a score of 



