240 Modern Dogs. 



Morris, Mr. W. S. Glynn, Mr. R. Hartley, and 

 others, who as a rule are strong supporters of the 

 club. 



I think that the introducers of the Welsh terrier as 

 a variety of its own claimed a little too much for 

 their speciality, and in the Field of Aug. 15, 1885, 

 there is an account of how they can hunt the otter 

 and kill it too. I have seen an ordinary smooth- 

 coated fox terrier, which had been kennelled with 

 hounds, speak on the drag of an otter ; but that a 

 terrier, even a Welsh one, can pick up a cold 

 scent by the riverside in early morning and hunt it 

 out from pebble to pebble and rock to rock, now 

 this side the river and now on that, until the otter 

 is marked in some hover in the bank, I must see 

 before I can believe. And when the otter is found 

 and swum, and killed by a dozen little terriers with 

 weak jaws, without the aid of the poles and spears 

 and staves of the hunters, a climax is reached which 

 ought to make the Welsh terriers, that are said to 

 do so, the most popular breed of modern times. 

 But no terrier can do this, nor will anyone who has 

 seen otter hunting with hounds, and knows what 

 punishment the otter can take and give, believe it of 

 any small dog. Indeed, nature never intended them 

 for such work. That the Welsh terrier is a game, 

 plucky terrier, smart and active on land, at home 



