CHAPTER XV. 

 YORKSHIRE AND OTHER TOY TERRIERS. 



THE charming, aristocratic little dog we now know 

 as the Yorkshire terrier has been identified as such 

 for but a comparatively short period, the Kennel 

 Club adopting this nomenclature in their Stud Book 

 for 1886. Prior to this date the name had been 

 hanging about him for some few years, because the 

 names of rough, broken-haired, or Scotch terrier, 

 under which he was first known, were most mis- 

 leading. During the early days of dog shows the 

 classes in which he competed included terriers of 

 almost any variety, from the cross-bred mongrel to 

 the Dandie Dinmont, the Skye terrier, and the 

 Bedlington. Indeed, twenty years since it was no 

 uncommon sight to see wire-haired fox terriers 

 figuring with others of a silkier coat under the one 

 common head of " rough or broken-haired terriers." 

 As a fact, a broken-haired terrier should have been 

 altogether a short-coated dog the Yorkshire is 

 long-coated to a greater extent than any other 



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