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breed is due, again made entries and won chief 

 honours with their little dogs Rambler and Bitters. 

 Two years later Captain Mackie was the most 

 successful competitor, securing the leading prizes 

 with his historical Dundee and his lovely little bitch 

 Glengogo, and so we are brought right down to the 

 present time. 



Much has been written of the various strains of 

 the Scottish terrier, but such are of little account, 

 as, although they were kept by many of the High- 

 land sportsmen on their estates, and used for hunting 

 purposes and for killing vermin, all had sprung 

 from a common origin. They had not sufficiently 

 distinguishing features from each other to merit a 

 separation, though every laird said his own breed 

 was the best and the only one to be found in its 

 original purity. However, be this as it may, there 

 is no doubt in my mind that this terrier had inhabited 

 Scotland long before modern writers told us what 

 they knew about dogs, and that all the stories about 

 the Skye terriers being in reality a half - bred 

 poodle or Maltese, made so by one of the breed 

 washed up from a shipwrecked vessel on the coast 

 of Skye, is all nonsense a traveller's tale and no 

 more. The so-called Aberdeen terrier is the Scottish 

 terrier pure and simple, and the Poltalloch terrier, 

 mentioned in " Dogs of Scotland," is a yellowish 



