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to these off coloured specimens one must not forget 

 that fawn or sandy Scottish terriers are by no means 

 infrequent, and two or three years ago Mr. A. 

 Maxwell, of Croft, near Darlington, won several 

 prizes with a dog of this colour, and a very good 

 specimen of his race too. We all know that the 

 fawn colour in deerhounds and in Skye terriers, 

 although not so prevalent as once was the case, is 

 still by no means uncommon. 



The allusion to the Poltalloch terrier in the 

 " Dogs of Scotland " elicited the following com- 

 munication from Col. Malcolm, R.E., to the author 

 of the work in question : " The Poltalloch terriers 

 still exist in the Poltalloch Kennels, and I hope 

 that your recognition of them may make it more 

 possible to keep them up. They are not invari- 

 ably white, but run between creamy white and 

 sandy. A good one at his best looks like a hand- 

 some deerhound, reduced in some marvellous way. 

 They are gameness itself, and terrible poachers. 

 They love above all things to get away with a young 

 retriever, and ruin him for ever, teaching him every- 

 thing he ought not to know. As for wisdom, make 

 one your friend and he will know everything and do 

 it. I have known one whose usual amusement was 

 rat-killing, and who had never retrieved, go into a 

 hole in tender ice and bring out a wild duck, because, 



