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mentions of terriers. The illustration of his terrier with a few of his pets 

 in our 1878 edition is probably modern and fanciful. Cooper's illustration 

 of "The Skye Terrier" is undoubtedly the short-coated "Die Hard." The 

 expression is somewhat that of his own black and tan rough terrier. This 

 painting probably dates from about 1830, but may be earlier. 



To go further back we have Captain Brown in his "Anecdotes" de- 

 scribing three varieties of Scotch terrier. One is the dog we have been 

 writing about, another was the Skye terrier, though it is not named and is 

 merely located as being the prevailing breed of the western islands of Scot- 

 land and with hair much longer than the first variety, and flowing. The 

 third he describes as fifteen to eighteen inches high, with a short, hard, 

 wiry coat; and this he says was the dog from which the best bull terriers 

 were bred. According to his own description it was only a larger specimen 

 of his first variety. Youatt copied Brown's description, and it is evident 

 that Brown did not know the Scottish terrier, nor did any person tell us 

 anything about this variety till near 1880. About that time some of the 

 English visitors to far north Scottish shows told on their return of a dog 

 that looked like a short-haired Skye terrier and had the name of Aberdeen 

 terrier. Some of these Aberdeen terriers were sent south to the Kennel 

 Club summer show of 1879, although we do not remember seeing them at 



that show. 



Under the name of Aberdeen terrier Dalziel devoted a chapter to the 

 Scottish terrier, thus giving the first information in book form regarding 

 the dog. At the same time and in the chapter on the Skye he gives a great 

 deal of space to contributions regarding a short-haired terrier from the west 

 coast, which Mr. J. Gordon Murray called the Highland terrier, and 

 divided the breed into "mogstads," "drynocks" and "camusennaries.'* 

 We might as well say here that it was this Highland terrier which Stonehenge 

 repudiated in toto and called a very ugly brute, notwithstanding which he 

 is quoted at times in support of the breed he scored as a nondescript. 



Dalziel was quite right when he corrected Mr. Murray's claim for 

 breeds under the outlandish names just quoted and said they were merely 

 local varieties. They came from the same places that the Skye terriers 

 were found, and Mr. Murray repudiated the Skyes altogether as mongrels 

 of half poodle extraction, claiming that the ones he described were the 

 "very real and pure Skye terrier." Mr. Murray contributed the illustration, 

 or provided the dog for A. H. Moore to sketch, and we thus have the first 



