The English White Terrier. 



there are other breeds of terriers better suited for 

 the special purposes for which pet dogs are kept. 

 Such terriers as the Irish, for example, are game, 

 gay, and always the same, ready for a fight, and 

 rarely much the worse for a shindy, while they can 

 be picked up and set on the show bench with the 

 least possible trouble and what more do we want ? 

 While regretting extremely the decay of the white 

 English Terrier, I am afraid they must bow to the 

 inevitable, and give place to dogs better suited to 

 the wants and conveniences of the present day than 

 they unfortunately are." 



With all of which I cordially agree, and in this 

 age we must be content with the " survival of the 

 fittest." It is only to be expected that in the 

 common course of events, when we are introducing 

 new varieties of the dog from foreign countries and 

 re-popularising varieties of our own, that the least 

 suitable must go to the wall sooner or later, and 

 those animals of which their admirers say they are 

 not fit to be kept unless they are shorn of their 

 ears, will no doubt be the first to go, especially 

 when such mutilation is illegal and brings its perpe- 

 trators within reach of the law against cruelty to 

 animals. 



At the time I am writing this, some of the best 

 of our white terriers are to be found in Scotland, 



