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rats, and possessed unusually good noses I 

 know, but careful tending to the coat, nursing and 

 petting, and the sacrifice of every useful point for a 

 long coat have wrought a complete change in the 

 animal, and he is now nothing more than a toy or 

 pet dog. And his long, trailing jacket does not 

 prove a recommendation when he goes into the house 

 from the streets on a dirty day and rests in the 

 drawing or dining room. I am told that an attempt 

 is being made to place the modern Skye terrier on 

 his proper footing, and that in future he will have 

 to be first of all a terrier and a long-coated ladies' 

 dog afterwards. 



Mr. Thomson Gray, in his " Dogs of Scotland," 

 gives particulars of an interview he had with George 

 Clark, who had for fifty years been head game- 

 keeper on the Mull Estate of the Duke of Argyll. 

 Mr. Gray writes : " When Mr. Clark left the duke's 

 Mull Estate for Inverary he took with him three of 

 these terriers to infuse fresh blood into the Inverary 

 kennel, where the old Skye had been carefully bred 

 from time immemorial, and on leaving there twenty 

 years later for Roseneath he brought this breed of 

 terrier with him, and by constantly introducing dogs 

 unrelated to his own has kept the blood pure, and of 

 exactly the same type from that day till now. They 

 were kept for the purpose of bolting from cairns and 



