CHAPTER XIV. 



THE CLYDESDALE OR PAISLEY TERRIER. 



I ONCE heard a man describe this dog as " neither 

 fish, fowl, nor good red herring," meaning no doubt 

 in his original way to express his opinion that the 

 Clydesdale or Paisley terrier was neither one thing 

 nor another, and perhaps he was not far wrong. 

 It has been said that this terrier was originally a 

 cross between the ordinary Skye terrier and the 

 Yorkshire terrier, but, although it is of quite 

 modern origin, no proof has been produced when 

 such crosses took place or who made them. To 

 my idea it is much more likely that the Yorkshire 

 terriers were produced from the Paisleys or Clydes- 

 dales, and we all know that, until within a compara- 

 tively recent date, the former were known as 

 " Scotch terriers," and in the first volume of the 



II Kennel Club Stud Book " their classification is 

 " Broken-haired Scotch or Yorkshire terriers. " 

 This was in 1874, but a little later the classification 

 was changed to " Yorkshire Terriers," and as such it 



