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The other painting is less distinct so we have not reproduced it. It 

 shows but three dogs, one of each colour. 



That is quite sufficient for our purpose, our contention being that 

 terriers were not and are not a Continental breed, and that rough dogs were 

 almost invariably drawn and painted by artists of one hundred years ago. 

 What we have been endeavouring for some time to get hold of is some 

 illustration of badger drawing or going to earth for badger, from about 1600 

 up to 1750, showing how it was conducted in England. We have Strada's 

 illustration of badger hunting from a Dutch point of view, but according to 

 the latin verse descriptive of the sport they were snared or were smoked 

 or dug out for the dogs to kill. We think there is a great field for original 

 search in such a place as the print room of the British Museum in the direc- 

 tion we have indicated. Barlow was quite a prolific delineator of sporting 

 scenes about 1670, but we have seen nothing from him in the badger line, 

 so whether the dogs used in his day were what he shows in the rabbiting 

 scene or were stronger and coarser is an open question. 



We next come to the Bewick terrier, a short-legged, strong customer, 

 certainly not a black-and-tan, probably a sandy dog. Following close upon 

 Bewick we have Howitt, and we have selected from a number of his 

 etchings one showing terriers of two colours, one being a white with 

 markings. The black-and-tan terrier is more frequently etched by Howitt 

 than the white, and he shows him in some of the etchings of otter hunting 

 and kindred subjects. Of the same period we have Reinagle, but we have 

 only found one of his, that in the "Sportsman's Cabinet," also used in the 

 "Sportsman's Repository." Captain Brown gives in his "Anecdotes" an 

 illustration of a Scotch terrier, which is more akin to the old semi-pricked- 

 ear Aberdeen terrier, later the Scottish terrier, than anything shown up to 

 that date. He also says that there were three breeds in Scotland, the one 

 illustrated, the Skye terrier, and a third that was leggier, fifteen to eighteen 

 inches in height and with a short wire-haired coat. This latter was the dog 

 known throughout England as the Scotch terrier, and is the one which has 

 been a stumbling-block to modem writers on the Scottish terrier, because 

 they could not make the description of that dog fit the modem animal. 



Covering the subsequent indefinite period up to the time of dog shows, 

 and steering clear of illustrations belonging distinctly to one or other of the 

 varieties then established and recognised, we give a sample of the terriers 

 in common use throughout England. Cooper yields the most diversified 



