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illustrations, gives us a team of terriers attacking a 

 badger. Some of these little dogs are white with 

 markings, others being whole coloured, dark pepper 

 and salts, or black and tans. This writer, thus 

 early, laments that " the occupation of the fox 

 terrier is almost gone, for the fox is less frequently 

 dug out than formerly, and it was thus only that 

 the terrier was of use, either to draw the fox or to 

 inform the digger by his baying of his whereabouts. 

 So his occupation being gone, he is dispensed with 

 by most masters of hounds of the new school." 

 Elaine proceeds to say that there are two promi- 

 nent varieties of the terrier, rough and smooth, the 

 first named appear to have been more common in 

 Scotland and the north, " the rigours of a more 

 severe climate being favourable to a crisped and 

 curled coat." One of Elaine's terriers is neither 

 more nor less than a bull terrier, bearing the 

 orthodox brindled or brown patch on one eye, and 

 its ears are cut. 



Others, too, adopted the same ideas as Elaine, 

 or at any rate similar ones, just as Taplin, in his 

 " Sporting Dictionary," and the author of the 

 <( Sportsman's Repository," had done those of 

 writers who preceded them. 



The reasons hold good now in 1894 that were so 

 admirably set forth then, but even fewer terriers 



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