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see and judge for himself as to this point. 

 At the end of his report on the kennel the 

 writer adds these words : " It was certainly 

 one of the happiest days of my life to have 

 the pleasure of looking over so many grand 

 little dogs, but to find them in England 

 quite staggered me. Four dogs and eight 

 bitches are not a bad beginning, and with 

 care and judicious selection in mating, I 

 have little doubt but Mr. Pigott's kennel 

 will be as renowned for Terriers as the late 



MRS. B. M HANNAYS CH. HEWORTH BANTOCK 



BY EMS TONIC EMS BHANAVAR 



Photograph by Russc'J. 



Mr. Laverack's was for Setters. I know 

 but few that take such a delight in the 

 brave little ' die-hards ' as Mr. Pigott, 

 and he may well feel proud of the lot he 

 has got together at great trouble and ex- 

 pense." 



The fact that there was such a kennel 

 already in existence proved, of course, 

 a strong point in favour of the bond fides 

 of the breed. The best dog in it was 

 Granite, whose portrait and description 

 was given in the Journal in connection with 

 the said review ; and the other animals 

 of the kennel being of the same type, it 

 was at once recognised that there was, in 

 fact, such a breed, and the mouths of the 

 doubters were stopped. 



Granite was unquestionably a typical 

 Scottish Terrier, even as we know them at 

 the present day. He was certainly longer 



in the back than we care for nowadays, and 

 his head also was shorter, and his jaw more 

 snipy than is now seen, but his portrait 

 clearly shows he was a genuine Scottish 

 Terrier, and there is no doubt that he, with 

 his kennel mates. Tartan, Crofter, Syringa, 

 Cavack, and Posey, conferred benefit upon 

 the breed. 



To dive deeper into the antiquity of the 

 Scottish Terrier is a thing which means 

 that he who tries it must be prepared 

 to meet all sorts of abuse, ridi- 

 cule, and criticism. For an Eng- 

 lishman, or, indeed, nine-tenths of 

 the population of Scotland to talk 

 to the few Scotsmen who do know 

 — or think they do — is heresy, de- 

 serving of nothing but the deepest 

 contempt. 



One man will tell you there never 

 was any such thing as the present- 

 day Scottish Terrier, that the mere 

 fact of his having prick ears shows 

 he is a mongrel ; another, that he is 

 merely an offslioot of the Skye or 

 the Dandle ; another, that the only 

 Scottish Terrier that is a Scottish 

 Terrier is a white one ; another, that 

 he is merely a manufactured ar- 

 ticle from Aberdeen, and so on ad 

 infinitum. 

 It is a most extraordinary fact that 

 Scotland should have unto herself so many 

 different varieties of the terrier. There 

 is strong presumption that they one and 

 all came originally from one variety, and 

 it is quite possible, nay probable, that dif- 

 ferent crosses into other varieties have 

 produced the assortment of to-day. The 

 writer is strongly of opinion that there still 

 exist in Scotland at the present time speci- 

 mens of the breed which propagated the 

 lot, which was what is called even now the 

 Highland Terrier, a little long-backed, short- 

 legged, snipy-faced, prick or drop-eared, 

 mostly sandy and black-coloured terrier, 

 game as a pebble, liv-ely as a cricket, and 

 all in all a most charming little companion ; 

 and further, that to produce our present- 

 day Scottish Terrier — or shall we say, to 

 improve the points of his progenitor ? — the 



