14 THE AIREDALE 



Americans who have been interested in the dog 

 have been blessed with enough of this world's 

 goods to buy what they want, and almost with- 

 out exception, they have been inspired with the 

 best fancier ideal, that of breeding their own 

 winners. 



This has given us a breeding stock second only 

 in numbers to that of Great Britain in the hands 

 of men who could and would use the material to 

 the best advantage. Accordingly, the American- 

 bred Airedale is noted the world over as a show 

 dog, and in no other country has the breed's 

 sporting possibilities been so fully tested as here 

 in the United States. 



By birth and breeding the Airedale is a sport- 

 ing terrier. A dog bred originally to do the 

 work of a vermin destroyer, he has taken nat- 

 urally to all kinds of game. In the Rockies, he 

 is used on bear, and he has won a name as a dog 

 of exceptional brains, unfailing courage, and re- 

 markable stamina at work from which no fool, 

 coward, or weakling comes home to supper. On 

 the farms of New England, he is cherished as an 

 exterminator of wood-chucks, moles, rats, and 

 vermin of this class. He hunts all the way down 

 the scale from the giant " silver tip " to the 

 mouse in the pantry mountain lions, wolves, 

 panthers, lynx, wild cats, foxes, coons, skunks, 



