The Black and Tan Terrier. 73 



The late Rev. T. Pearce (" Idstone ") tells us of the 

 black and tan terrier which his family had sixty or 

 seventy years ago, and other writers follow in the 

 same vein. These were bred for work and work 

 only ; the modern production is a purely fancy 

 animal, whose " markings " are of more value than 

 gameness, and his elegance of shape more than 

 stoutness of constitution. Dog shows first brought 

 him into prominence as a " fashionable beauty," 

 and at our earliest exhibitions he was extremely 

 well represented. Still, he was not then so uniform 

 in quality and markings as he came to be later on, 

 and every class contained some dog or other that 

 was badly marked, and by no means of the type 

 that was then coming into vogue. There is no 

 doubt that between 1850 and 1860 the old-fashioned 

 dog was crossed with some other variety of a lighter 

 build, and this may have been a small dark coloured 

 greyhound. Anyhow, the " long lean heads " more 

 often than not showed some greyhound cross, how- 

 ever remote it might be, and the black and tan 

 terrier was and is more tucked up in loins and not 

 so level in the back as the fox terrier ought to 

 be. Then his feet are not so round and cat- 

 like, a longish foot, though it might be thick 

 enough, being preferred, as then the "pencilling" 

 on the feet- black marks on the tan ground 



