CHAPTER XL 

 THE SCOTTISH TERRIER. 



FROM all I have been told, and from what I have 

 read, I believe that this little dog is the oldest 

 variety of the canine race indigenous to North 

 Britain, although but a comparatively recent intro- 

 duction across the border and into fashionable 

 society, at any rate under his present name. For 

 generations he had been a popular dog in the 

 Highlands, where, strangely enough, he was always 

 known as the Skye terrier, although he is so different 

 from the long-coated, unsporting-like looking creature 

 with which that name is now associated. Even 

 Hugh Dalziel, in the first edition of his " British 

 Dogs," published so recently as 1881, gives an 

 excellent illustration of the Scotch terrier which he 

 calls a Skye terrier. 



Our little friend has, perhaps, been rather un- 

 fortunate so far as nomenclature is concerned, for, 

 after being called a Skye terrier, he became known 

 as the Scotch terrier, the Scots terrier, and the 



