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then appeared for the first time, and, notwithstanding 

 the fact that she was absolutely without thumb 

 marks on her fore feet, I gave her first prize. Some 

 time after, in conversation with her owner, I alluded 

 to his bitch, and said she was so terrier-like in body 

 and general character that I had no hesitation in 

 placing her where she was, notwithstanding her 

 deficient markings. " Well," said her owner, 



" tells me that the celebrated never 



had a thumb mark at all, and that he made 

 them artificially, and offered to do the same for my 

 bitch, but I did not care about running any risk, and 

 she is good enough without them." I was well 

 acquainted with all the parties concerned, and, at 

 any rate, twenty years ago this " faking " of black 

 and tan terriers was carried on to an alarming 

 extent, and it required an expert to detect where 

 deception had been practised. This was owing to 

 the fact that markings were, and still are, a sine qua 

 non in the black and tan terrier, more so indeed 

 than in any other dog, not excepting either the 

 Yorkshire terrier or the Dalmatian. 



These dark or black markings on the brown feet 

 of black and tan dogs of all varieties are more or 

 less common, and are found defined to a certain 

 extent on collies of that colour, and on black and 

 tan or Gordon setters. So far as the terriers are 



