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the true Skye terrier. In the South the attempt 

 was made to establish that claim on behalf of a sort 

 of mongrel Scottish terrier, and in the North on 

 behalf of what is known as the Paisley or Clydes- 

 dale terrier. The issue in both cases was that these 

 attempts utterly failed. The breeders, however, 

 alike of the true and of the spurious species, were 

 limited in number, connections had been formed, 

 inducing the defeated parties, while modifying 

 somewhat the character of the dog's coat, &c., to 

 maintain that conflict on the show bench in which 

 they had been defeated in open discussion. Judges 

 as well as breeders were implicated, some, it must 

 be confessed, from pure ignorance, while others had 

 formed their standard after a false model, or had 

 been influenced by a variety of extraneous motives. 



11 The Skye terrier is a purely Scottish dog, 

 and is not generally well known in England. But 

 England is the chief market for his disposal, and 

 purchasers are readily imposed upon by a large 

 showy specimen that may have been awarded a 

 prize, even although destitute of Skye terrier 

 character. The breed has been lately rising in 

 public favour, and numbers of new breeders have 

 entered the field, some of whom have obtained 

 genuine specimens, others have not. 



u The work for which the Skye terrier is specially 



