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all animals that live much underground are made 

 thus, long in body compared to length of leg, such 

 as moles, weasels, stoats, polecats, badgers, &c. 



" I try to breed the terriers as straight in the legs 

 as I can, but like most short-legged breeds, vide 

 Scottish terriers, Dandie Dinmonts, and some spaniels, 

 it is hard to get them perfectly straight the shorter 

 the leg the more difficult it becomes to get them 

 perfectly straight. I would not draft an otherwise 

 good dog because he turns his toes out. As for 

 weight, I like i61b. for dogs and 14^-lb. for bitches. 

 At this weight they can possess bone enough and 

 have their ribs well sprung, and need not have such 

 exaggerated narrow fronts, which a big dog must 

 possess if he is to get into an ordinary-sized earth 

 suffering consequently, I think, from insufficient 

 room for play of lungs and heart. For all work that 

 a terrier is called upon to do, I think a i61b. dog is 

 the best. 



" I do not think a terrier's place is with a crack 

 pack of foxhounds in a grass country after cubbing 

 time." 



Mr. Cowley further says, that some of the terriers 

 are almost too game underground, as when they 

 are so they are liable to get terribly punished by the 

 badgers. There are usually about four to six couples 

 of full-grown terriers in the kennels at Callipers, 



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