232 Modern Dogs. 



However reluctant I may be to agree with all that 

 has been said and done to popularise the so-called 

 Welsh terrier, one must give way to the majority. 

 The Kennel Club now acknowledges this variety of 

 terrier by the name which heads this chapter, and, 

 in addition, there is a well-established and flourishing 

 club that looks carefully after its interests. So let 

 it be. Still, there is no gainsaying the fact that some 

 of the very best terriers of this variety have been 

 produced from parents that never had a drop of 

 Welsh blood in their veins, that had never seen the 

 Principality, and had no more connection therewith 

 than the black and white fisherman's dog of New- 

 foundland has with the dog treasured by the monks 

 of St. Bernard's hospice. About eight years ago the 

 newly popularised black and tan hard-haired terrier 

 suddenly appeared on the show bench, and, although 

 then claimed as a native of Wales, or to have originally 

 sprung therefrom, there was other evidence to prove 

 that this identical dog had long flourished in the 

 north of England, and in some districts was still to 

 be found uncrossed with the modern fox terrier, and, 

 so far as could be discovered, of comparatively pure 

 blood. 



When the Kennel Club authorities at Cleveland- 

 'row consented to its entry in their Stud Book in 1886, 

 the classification of (l Welsh or old English wire- 



