1 68 Modern Dogs. 



prizes at our principal shows are to all appearance 

 black coated, and you, of course, wonder where 

 the badger grizzle comes in ; pull out a few of 

 the supposed black hairs you will notice at once 

 that one half of each hair is black and the other 

 half grey, or two distinct colours on each hair ; 

 and this is the reason such coats are called badger- 

 grizzled. 



" This can easily be verified by the examination 

 of a badger hair shaving-brush, which you will find 

 exactly as I say, each hair having two distinct 

 colours. This peculiarity has misled a lot of 

 amateurs. I remember in particular a rather 

 amusing incident which occurred not long ago. 

 A particular friend of mine sold an Airedale 

 terrier to a gentleman of position. He had the dog 

 on approval, and liked him very much. A few 

 weeks later he wrote saying that he was delighted 

 with the dog, and liked him better every day. 

 Shortly after this my friend received another letter 

 from this gentleman making some very serious 

 imputations against him, saying that he had dyed 

 the dog's coat black, and enclosing some hair black 

 at one end and grey at the other as proof, and 

 threatening to take criminal proceedings against him 

 for fraud. My friend was of course very much 

 upset, but I explained to him that all Airedale 



