The Yorkshire Terrier 713 



to prevent the coat kinking and the other to prevent the hind toes pulling 

 or breaking the coat in case of the dog scratching. Its bed is the plain 

 board of the floor of its little kennel with nothing for the hair to catch in, 

 for its coat is worth more than its weight in gold. You may see a dozen 

 dogs in that kitchen, one after the other just in that way, and that is how 

 they keep and rear this beautiful little gem of the dog family. 



If reference is made to the plate facing page 404 an illustration from 

 the first and second editions of Stonehenge's authoritative " Dogs of the 

 British Islands" will be found. The dog to the left and beyond the white 

 broken-haired terrier was what he then took as representative of the York- 

 shire terrier. He was writing of the usual run of rough terriers to be seen 

 in 1868 and went on to say: "Sometimes his coat is of a silky texture, and 

 in this case he is generally of a blue-fawn or blue-tan colour. Our illus- 

 tration represents a very beautiful specimen of this sort, belonging to Mr. 

 Spink of Bradford. He is the type of his class— a class deservedly popular 

 with all admirers of rough terriers, and in which he is famous. " The name 

 of this dog was Bounce and he won a third prize at Manchester in 1887. 

 His sire was Spink's Sandy who was by Haigh's Teddy and he by Old 

 Crab out of Old Kitty, the very beginnings of Yorkshire pedigrees. 



Eleven years later the third edition of Stonehenge was published, and 

 for the first time the breed had a descriptive chapter and a name. Dalziel 

 wrote the Yorkshire article, but Stonehenge had this to say in his intro- 

 ductory remarks to Book III, which included terriers other than fox or 

 toy—" Since the first edition of this book was published, a considerable change 

 has taken place in the type of several of the terrier family. At that time 

 the Yorkshire terrier was represented by an animal only slightly differing 

 from the old Scotch dog, his shape being nearly or exactly the same, and 

 his coat differing simply in being more silky. Such an animal was Mr. 

 Spink's Bounce and by comparing his portrait with that of Mrs. Foster's 

 Huddersfield Ben it will readily be seen that a great development of coat 

 has been accomplished in the latter." 



We have said that Huddersfield Ben perfected the breed, but that only 

 refers to the type of the breed and is not meant to imply that we have made 

 no progress since then. What has been done is gaining a still greater length 

 of coat, the result of the additional twenty years of breeding and selection. 

 On the other hand this persistent effort for length of coat has been partly 

 at the cost of colour, which is quite as important as the length of the coat. 



