THE AIREDALE'S HISTORY 23 



in the Airedale no one can say. The otterhound 

 donated the size and the love of the water, and 

 all the terrier blood made him a terrier in spite 

 of his size. From the very beginning the breed 

 had the advantage of having an object. The 

 Yorkshireman wanted a big, strong, dead game, 

 water-loving terrier. That furnished a standard 

 to breed to, and they got what they wanted. 



When the fame of this dog first spread from 

 the valleys of his birthplace, he was pretty well 

 established as to type, and once taken up by the 

 dog showing fancy and a standard drawn up 

 the type was soon firmly fixed. Since his first 

 introduction to the world he has changed, be- 

 coming somewhat larger. The seers and wise 

 men of English dogdom raised a great hullabal- 

 loo when this giant among terriers appeared, say- 

 ing that no dog over twenty pounds could be a 

 terrier because a terrier must go to earth. The 

 dog, however, was mainly terrier in blood and 

 so very certainly terrier in characteristics that 

 he was classed with the family. Maybe it is out 

 of respect to the authorities of the early days 

 of the dog fancy that we have gradually dropped 

 the terrier in his name, and though it is a part 

 of his official title, still the dog is universally 

 spoken of as the Airedale. 



This, however, was not his original name, for 



