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terriers other than the three named, or toys. In this chapter he includes 

 the black-and-tan, the smooth white, the wire-haired fox terrier and the 

 original Yorkshire. Still another chapter is devoted to the bull terrier. In 

 the same authority's second edition of "The Dog," 1872, he divides terriers 

 as follows: The old English terrier (the smooth black-and-tan), the Scotch 

 (the leggy rough dog), the Dandie Dinmont, the Skye, the fox terrier, the 

 Bedlington, the Halifax blue-tan (which became the Yorkshire), and the 

 modern toy terrier. 



"Idstone" published his book, "The Dog," in 1872, and limits his 

 descriptions to the fox, bull, Skye, Dandie, broken-haired fox, smooth black- 

 and-tan and smooths of other colours. Stonehenge's third edition of his 

 main work, published in 1878, includes "by request" the Irish terrier. 

 His objection to a distinct name for this dog was that it was only a variety of 

 the Scotch terrier. Not only did he so state in a footnote to the admitted 

 chapter, but when we had the well-known bitch Banshee at the Field office 

 one day he held to his opinion that it was just a little better dog than the 

 usual run of Scotch terriers of twenty years previous. He admitted the 

 improvement but stuck to the Scotch. Other changes in this edition were 

 the incorporating of the broken-haired terrier with the fox terrier as the 

 "rough fox terrier"; the acceptance of the prick-eared Skye, which he 

 would have nothing to do with in 1867; the acceptance of Yorkshire as the 

 name for the blue-and-tan Halifax terrier; a partial acceptance of Manches- 

 ter in connection with the name of the large black-and-tan; and a chapter on 

 the white English terrier. He declined in this edition to accept the terrier 

 we now call the Scottish, which Mr. J. Gordon Murray had described under 

 the various names of mogstads, drynocks and camusennaries, adding that if 

 the portrait published of one that Mr. Murray had lately brought to London 

 was at all like the dog then he was a very ugly brute. 



In 1880 the Airedale was brought forth, and then came the lengthy dis- 

 cussion anent the little fellow from Scotland, who had been barking at the 

 door for a long time and was finally admitted under the compromise name 

 of Scottish terrier. Then we had the revival of the rough black-and-tan 

 terrier under the good name of "Old English wire-haired black-and-tan 



terrier," but 



''Taffy was a Welshman 



Taffy was a thief, 

 Taffy came to my house 

 And stole " 



