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series, and we therefore give two of his, not including the black-and-tan 

 he owned, of whose head he made a beautiful study to illustrate the terrier 

 in the "Sporting Portfolio.'* Of Hobday we know nothing, and do not recall 

 having seen anything by him other than this wire-haired terrier with the 

 badger. Spalding painted many terriers, all very similar in character, 

 and gave them good heads — rather too good, in fact. The Armfield type of 

 terrier was what we called Scotch, rather an elastic title, for it included 

 everything that looked like a ratter and was sandy or partly that colour. 

 We have also a French print dated 1821, but this was a reproduction of 

 a painting by an Englishman, showing foxhounds running, accompanied 

 by a black-and-tan, smooth-coated terrier. The Aiken sketches are 

 introduced here to round out the illustrations of terriers of that period, 

 though they are really bull terriers. Lieut. Col. Hamilton Smith also 

 illustrated dogs in colour for the Naturalists' Library, but these we will 

 use later on. 



The summing up of the situation is that the terrier was developed from 

 the common material of England. A hard-biting, game dog, small enough 

 to go to earth after the fox and badger. The type seems then to have settled 

 into a rough-coated black-and-tan dog, with varieties of colour from that 

 by the introduction of greyhound blood and that of small hounds. From 

 the greyhound cross in all probability also came the short-coated dog. We 

 must note an exception to the latter conclusion with regard to the Manchester 

 terrier type of dog, for his short tail was noticed by Captain Brown, and 

 his short back at a still earlier period by Daniel. At that time this smooth 

 terrier must have been of thoroughly established type. The dog Daniel 

 describes as of a reddish-brown colour with tanned legs is one seldom seen 

 now. In fact we cannot recall the last occasion of seeing one, but they were 

 not uncommon forty years ago. Our first dog was a black-and-tan bred 

 terrier, but all black; so with a view of obtaining better colour in her puppies 

 we bred her to a liver-and-tan — as he would be called now — owned at a 

 nearby stable. This was a very smart well-built little dog, and was black- 

 and-tan bred according to the information given us, though pedigrees were 

 little thought of then, or at least quite beyond our boyish knowledge. 



At the stable where this dog was kept one of the men had a few terriers 

 the like of which we have never seen since. They were just about the size 

 of the Griffon Bruxellois, and very much like them. Where they differed 

 was in a more terrier-like face, devoid of the monkey look of the griffon. 



