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variety of the terrier ; nor was the title Scotch 

 terrier, by which he was most frequently known, at 

 all adaptable to him. 



How the name of Scotch terrier became attached 

 to a dog which so thoroughly had its home in 

 Yorkshire and Lancashire is somewhat difficult to 

 determine, if it can be determined at all, but a very 

 old breeder of the variety told me that the first 

 of them originally came from Scotland, where they 

 had been accidentally produced from a cross 

 between the silky-coated Skye terrier (the Clydes- 

 dale) and the black and tan terrier. One could 

 scarcely expect that a pretty dog, partaking in a 

 degree after both its parents, could be produced 

 from a first cross between a smooth-coated dog, and 

 a long-coated bitch or vice versa. Maybe, two or 

 three dogs so bred had been brought by some of the 

 Paisley weavers into Yorkshire, and there, suitably 

 admired, pains were taken to perpetuate the strain. 

 There appears to be something feasible and 

 practical in this story, and I am sorry that when the 

 information was given me, nearly a quarter of a 

 century since, by a Yorkshire weaver then sixty 

 years old and since dead, I did not obtain more 

 particulars about what was in his day called the 

 Scotch terrier. 



However, this is the Yorkshire terrier now, and will 



