370 Modern Dogs. 



rock, that honeycomb Whitbarrow Scar. Mr. 

 W. H. B. Cockerton, of Richmond, Surrey, has in 

 his possession a portrait of his brother taken over 

 thirty years ago, in which one of this strain of 

 terriers occupies a leading position. This variety 

 of a useful sort of dog is now lost. No care was 

 taken to breed him in continuity, there was no 

 adoption of type, and on the introduction of the 

 smooth fox terrier, which could be sold for more 

 money, the less fashionable and coarser looking 

 creature had to give way. 



Of these North-country terriers a correspondent, 

 writing from Devonshire to the Field in 1886, says : 

 <( The dormant spirit of an old fell hunter has 

 recently been keenly awakened at the mention of 

 the Elterwater terriers, which breed, I am informed, 

 is nearly extinct. Thirty years ago Mr. Robinson, 

 of Elterwater, kept a pack of rough hounds equally 

 good at otter or marten cat. The summers were 

 devoted to the pursuit of the ' fishmonger'; in the 

 winter the marten cat was our game. I can endorse 

 every word of your correspondent as to the game- 

 ness of the terriers that followed Tom Myers (the 

 huntsman) over crag and fell. The origin of the 

 breed is rather confused, and not to be relied on ; ( Ye 

 ken John Peel, I reckon ? one of his sort,' was the 

 usual Westmorland reply to the inquiring stranger. 



