CHAPTER X. 

 THE WELSH TERRIER. 



THIS terrier is our most modern introduction, and 

 one is apt to wonder how it was that for so long his 

 merits have been overlooked. The dog of which I 

 write as a Welsh terrier was unknown until some 

 eight years or so ago. Then he appeared in some 

 of our shows ; he was given a place in the Stud 

 Book; a club was formed in 1886 to look after his 

 welfare, and at some modern exhibitions, to wit, at 

 Liverpool, in 1893, there were no fewer than ninety- 

 three entries made of Welsh terriers, or dogs that 

 passed as such. W T hen he was first introduced, a 

 rather short stumpy head, with considerable terrier 

 character generally, were considered to form the 

 correct type ; now the head has been " improved," 

 or otherwise, until it is as long and fox terrier-like 

 as those Mr. Wardle draws on another page, who, 

 following the dictates of fashion, gives us the Welsh 

 terrier, which is perhaps not Welsh at all, as he is 

 to-day. To proceed with my story. 



