ioo Modern Dogs. 



are used with packs of hounds than when Elaine 

 wrote, and, unless under exceptional circumstances, 

 a master will leave the fox, which has contrived to 

 get safely to ground, with his mask safe and 

 his brush intact, if a little bedraggled. With an 

 increasing love of hunting, so apparent during the 

 past century, there was no wonder the terrier came 

 to have consideration with some men little inferior 

 to that bestowed on the hound himself. Pretty 

 nearly each hunting country held its own particular 

 strain, and that these were for the most part dark 

 in colour (usually black and tan), that which has 

 been read in these introductory pages, I think, 

 forms fair evidence. That three varieties were 

 common, large, medium, and small in size, too, is 

 apparent, and that such were both smooth and 

 rough or wire-haired ; but how they were originally 

 produced there is no evidence to show. 



The early-time terriers were bred for work and 

 not for ornament, and, unless they would go to 

 ground after the manner of the ferret, their heads 

 would not be kept long out of the huge butt of 

 water in the stableyard. Rats they had to kill, 

 and, unhappily, often enough cats too ; but fox 

 terriers were less seldom used to work as spaniels 

 or retrievers than is the case to-day. Our ancestors 

 believed in each dog having its own vocation : the 



