The Scottish Terrier. 251 



almost black dogs, oftener seen on the show bench 

 to-day. 



It was about the year 1874 that a newspaper 

 controversy brought the Scottish terrier prominently 

 before the public, and the Crystal Palace shows and 

 the one at Brighton the following year, viz., in 1876, 

 provided classes for them, which, however, failed to 

 fill. Then there came a lull, a club was formed, and 

 in 1879 Mr. J. B. Morrison, of Greenock, was invited 

 to the Alexandra Palace show to judge the Scotch 

 terriers in a class which had been provided for them. 

 A few months later divisions were given them at the 

 Dundee show, when the winner, though a pure 

 " Scottie," was called a Skye terrier, and came from 

 that island. Birmingham provided a class in 1881, 

 and with an incompetent judge the prizes were 

 withheld, though such men as the late Captain 

 Mackie, Mr. Ludlow, and Mr. J. A. Adamson were 

 exhibitors. The Curzon Hall show appears to have 

 been rather unfortunate in this sort of thing, for 

 previously the leading prize in wire-haired fox terriers 

 was withheld when there was as good a specimen 

 of the variety as we ever saw on the bench or in the 

 ring at any time. However, another year things 

 went better with the Scottish terriers, as in 1883 

 Messrs. Ludlow and Blomfield, of Norwich, to whom 

 much of the credit for the popularisation of the 



