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and some are curled, the bigger therfor are appoynted to hunt the bigger 

 beastes, and the smaller serve to hunt the smaller accordingly." Caius 

 places the terrier in the same section as the hounds, following what he called 

 the harrier, but which was his group name for all scenting hounds outside 

 of bloodhounds, and preceding the latter in his description order, which is 

 a decidedly honourable position for the terrier to occupy, ranking him with 

 dogs "of a gentle kind." 



That the terrier was really entitled to rank with hounds is not to be 

 readily disputed, for, taking a broad view of the groups of terriers, there is 

 more or less resemblance to the hounds that were kept in various districts. 

 Thus in England the oldest mention of the colour of terriers shows the black 

 and tan of the hound to be then the prevailing terrier colour. In Scotland 

 the colours have always been those of the Scotch deerhounds — fawns and 

 brindles — ^where the deerhound prevailed, while along the Border, where 

 the sleuth hounds were kept, we have a heavier eared terrier. In Ireland 

 the terrier favours the wolfhound in colour and contour. It seems reason- 

 able therefore to conclude that terriers were small mongrels in which hound 

 blood formed considerable part, and that the rough coats and sprightliness 

 came from greyhound infusions, so there was nothing at all incongruous in 

 calling them half-bred greyhounds or recommending a cross of bastard 

 mastiffs and beagles. 



The dog-show visitor of the present sees an array of terriers, each 

 variety thoroughly distinct in type one from the other, and can with difficulty, 

 if at all, realise that this has been accomplished in considerable less than a 

 century; not but what there were varieties longer ago than that, but they 

 were few, and the great majority were simply terriers except when it came 

 to the black-and-tan smooth terrier, which was so called, and the universal 

 sandy, rough-coated dog which went by the name of Scotch terrier. To 

 modem terrier men who can hardly appreciate what the conditions were in 

 England even as late as i860, it is still more difficult to understand that while 

 dogs that went to earth after foxes and badgers were called terriers, they 

 might be anything in the way of breeding. 



The first description from Caius, 1565, is devoid of all particulars as 

 to the dogs themselves being simply confined to what they did : 



"Of the Dogge called Terrar, in Latine Terrarius. 



"Another sorte of hunting dog there is which hunteth the Foxe and 

 the Badger or Greye onely, whom we call Terrars, because they (after the 



