Black and Tan Terriers. 15 



and smooth ; and, what is rather more extraordinary, the 

 latter not much deficient in courage to the former, but the 

 rough breed must be acknowledged the most severe and 

 invincible biter of the two. Since foxhunting is so 

 deservedly and universally popular in every country where 

 it can be enjoyed, these faithful little animals have become 

 so exceedingly fashionable that few stables of the inde- 

 pendent are seen without them. Four and five guineas is 

 no great price for a handsome, well-bred terrier." 



Here we have a description of the terrier very much as 

 he still remains. There are the red or fawn ones which 

 may be represented to-day by the Irish variety ; the black 

 with tan faces, &c., by the so-called Welsh terrier ; and the 

 white and white pied whose individuality may be found in 

 the modern fox terrier. The latter, the handsomest, became 

 the most popular, though there is little doubt that ninety 

 years ago the fox terrier proper was a black and tan dog. 

 S. Elmer draws us such a one in Daniel's " Rural Sports," 

 where a good-looking dog in every way, is going to a fox 

 whose head is just peeping out from an earth. And, as 

 additional proof of what a fox terrier was in 1806, we 

 reproduce here an engraving from a mezzotint of " The 

 Fox Terrier," from an original picture by De Wilde, pub- 

 lished August 4, 1806, by Laurie and Whittle, 53, Fleet- 

 street, London. 



This is undoubtedly a black and tan dog, somewhat 

 ragged in his coat, which, though inclined to be wavy, 

 must in reality have been as free from actual roughness 

 as many of the smooth-coated variety we see to-day. 

 He has drop ears; after the orthodox fashion of the 

 present time, a docked tail, " good straight fore legs, fair 

 feet, and nice bone." A terrier, about i81b. in weight, 



