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undergone oftener than is actually required to prevent 

 an accumulation of filth. 



There is no doubt that a Skye terrier in continued 

 hard work would carry comparatively little coat, 

 whilst its brother, which had been kept for show 

 purposes alone, would be profuse in jacket ; and, 

 being equal in other respects to its relative, the 

 latter would beat the former in the ring ; thus the 

 show dog becomes the more valuable, though 

 probably the least useful, dog of the two so far 

 as legitimate work is concerned. I hope that the 

 Skye Terrier Club for Scotland will be successful 

 in its praiseworthy attempt ; if they prove so they 

 will have solved a problem at which others have 

 failed over and over again. And is it possible to 

 make the present Skye terrier as useful a little dog 

 for vermin and general hunting and country work as 

 the Scottish terrier, which has come to the front 

 with such leaps and bounds during the past half- 

 dozen years ? Mr. Bobbie and his colleagues are 

 sanguine that at any rate they can keep it from more 

 nearly approaching the Paisley or Clydesdale terrier, 

 which is dealt with in the succeeding chapter. 



As already hinted, there are two clubs to look 

 after the interests of the Skye terrier one for 

 England, the other for Scotland ; the former with 

 about twenty-five members, the latter with some 



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