THE SCOTTISH TERRIER. 



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assistance of our old friend the black and 

 tan wire-haired terrier of England was 

 sought by a few astute people living prob- 

 ably not very far from Aberdeen. The 

 writer feels the vials of the wrath of the 

 Scotsman, the hiss of his breath, the 

 hatred of his eye, and if it were not that 

 they never do such a thing, he would add 

 the curse of his lip ; but, for all of it, he is 

 confident that he is right and 

 whole-heartedly congratulates the 

 gentlemen north of the Tweed on 

 the animal they have produced. 



The Skye, the Dandie, the Wiite 

 Scottish have no place in this 

 chapter. Were it otherwise, no- 

 thing would be easier than to 

 unfold the method by which they 

 have been begotten. There can, 

 with regard at any rate to the 

 two first mentioned, in all likeli- 

 hood be no mistaking the breed 

 or breeds which have been em- 

 ployed for this purpose. 



Scottish Terriers frequently go 

 by the name of Aberdeen Ter- 

 riers — an appellation, it is true, 

 usually heard only from the lips 

 of people who do not know much 

 about them. Mr. W. L. McCand- 

 lish, one of the greatest living 

 authorities on the breed, in an 

 treatise published some time back, 

 us. in reference to this matter, that the 

 terrier under notice went at different 

 periods under the names of Highland, 

 Cairn, Aberdeen, and Scotch ; that he is 

 now known by the proud title of Scot- 

 tish Terrier ; and that " the only sur- 

 viving trace of the differing nomen- 

 clature is the title Aberdeen, which many 

 people still regard as a different breed — a 

 want of knowledge frequently turned to 

 account by the unscrupulous dealer who 

 is able to sell under the name of Aberdeen 

 a dog too bad to dispose of as a Scottish 

 Terrier." Mr. Harding Cox tells us that 

 the name of Aberdeen as applied to Scot- 

 tish Terriers dies hard, that it is stiU the 

 name used amongst the non-technical cyno- 

 philists, and is stoutly supported by the 



soi-disant wiseacre. All this is unques- 

 tionably true, as far as it goes ; but there 

 can be no doubt that originally there must 

 have been some reason for the name. In 

 a letter to the writer. Sir Paynton Pigott 

 says, " Some people call them and ad\-er- 

 tise them as the Aberdeen Terrier, which 

 is altogether a mistake ; but the reason 

 of it is tliat forty years ago a Dr. Van 



MR. J. 



LEES MAULDEN RANNOCH 



BY CH. HEWORTH RASCAL BALMACRON DAISY. 



able 

 tells 



Bust, who lived in Aberdeen, bred these 

 terriers to a large extent and sold them, and 

 those buying them called them, in conse- 

 quence, ' Aberdeen Terriers,' whereas they 

 were in reality merely a picked sort of Old 

 Scotch or Highland Terrier." Sir Paynton 

 himself, as appears from the columns of 

 The Live Stock Journal (March 2nd, 1877), 

 bought some of the strain of Van Bust, and 

 therein gives a full description of the same. 

 " Strathbogie," however, would have none 

 of the Aberdeen Terriers, and would not 

 even admit there was such a dog. He en- 

 deavoured, previously in the same year, to 

 put " The Badger " and Dr. Gordon Stables 

 right on the point by telling them they were 

 just about as correct as was a certain Lord 

 Provost on an occasion when he was invited 

 by a captain of a ship, who had returned 

 from Jamaica, to dine with him on his ship 



