CHAPTER LX 



THE YORKSHIRE TERRIER 



ALTHOUGH it is difficult to credit a little dog, 

 weighing frequently less than 5 lb., and smothered 

 in a long silky coat, with sporting instincts, it is 

 nevertheless true that the Yorkshire Terrier is 

 thoroughly game and capable of killing a rat 

 cleanly and expeditious ly. He is also a trustworthy 

 guard, ready to go for a stranger with the utmost 

 pluck. Looking at the beribboned darlings, reclining 

 on cushions in the show pen, we are apt to forget 

 that some fifty years ago they came from a genuine 

 working variety. Scotland and the North of England 

 have for many generations, before the advent of dog 

 shows, possessed strains of broken-haired terrier, 

 from some of which the Yorkshire is descended. 

 " Stonehenge " says : " The points of the Yorkshire 

 dog are the same as regards shape and make as 

 the smooth English terrier, but the coat differs in 

 being long and of three different shades that on 

 the back being a blue slate ; the face, head, and 

 legs a silky, silvery fawn ; the whole undermined 

 by short tanned hair. The older the dog the more 

 silvery he gets." 



Of later years the Yorkshire Terrier has enjoyed 



