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Highland terrier ; then others dubbed him the Cairn 

 terrier and the Die Hard, whilst another move was 

 made to give him the distinguishing appellation of 

 the Aberdeen terrier. Now he has been thoroughly 

 wound up, and, I suppose to suit those persons of 

 teetotal proclivities who connected the word 

 " Scotch " with the national liquor called whiskey, 

 has developed into the " Scottish " terrier ; as 

 such he is known in the Stud Books, and 

 is acknowledged as of that name by the leading 

 Scotch, or Scottish, authorities on the variety. 

 Well, he is a game, smart, perky little terrier, and 

 I do not think that his general excellence and 

 desirability as a companion are likely to suffer from 

 the evolutions his name has undergone. Years 

 ago, before dog shows were invented, any cross 

 bred creature was called a Scotch terrier, especially 

 if he appeared to stand rather higher on the legs 

 than the ordinary terrier ; if he were on short legs 

 he was an " otter " terrier. 



In an old " Sportsman," a three halfpenny little 

 magazine published in 1833, there is a wood 

 engraving, by no means a bad one, of " The Scotch 

 terrier." This is a big, leggy, cut-eared dog with 

 a docked tail, evidently hard in coat and very game 

 looking ; were such a dog to be shown to-day he 

 would be most likely to take a prize in the Irish 



