^o tJsefid Companions of Man. 



head, 25 ; eye, 5 ; neck, 5 ; chest, 5 ; shoulders, 5; feet, 

 5 ; loins, 5 ; tail, 5. 



Rough or Broken-haired Terriers are no doubt 

 all descended from the broken-haired Scotch dog, with 

 which all must be famiUar, but whether the modem silken 

 hair has been developed by crossing with the Maltese, 

 or by selection, is a moot question. In general shape 

 this dog resembles the smooth variety, but he is slightly 

 longer in frame, and not so elegant in his proportions. 

 The chief peculiarity, as I before remarked, is in coat 

 and colour. The roughness of coat about the muzzle 

 and face makes the head look larger, and takes off a 

 good deal from the lively look so remarkable in the 

 smooth dog. 



The old-fashioned hard and wiry-coated dog is, I 

 believe, more game than the silky-haired dog now in 

 fashion ; but no doubt the latter is a very elegant animal, 

 and well suited for the bar-parlour, where he is exten- 

 sively patronized. The modern favourite is of a blue 

 colour, with rich fawn (approaching to a tan) legs, the 

 under-parts being all of the latter colour. The tail is 

 carried higher than that of the smooth dog. In the old- 

 fashioned strain the colours are either grizzled, black, 

 with pale tan spots, or generally of a grizzled black-brown, 

 sometimes quite grey and constituting the pepper-and- 

 salt colour. Sometimes the broken-haired dog is white, 

 more or less marked with blue, or some other colour, but 

 the less the better. 



There is a great difference of opinion as regards the 

 points of a broken-haired terrier; we will therefore describe 

 the points of the two varieties in most esteem, beginning 

 with those chiefly bred in Lancashire and Yorkshire, as 

 these, up to the present time, have distanced the Scotch 

 terrier at our great shows on account of their taking 

 appearance to the eyes of the general public. In our 

 opinion, however, the Scotch terrier proper is superior in 

 point of usefulness at home and abroad, and when the 

 two are shown together it should be preferred— shape, 

 make, and colour being equal 



The points of the Yorkshire dog are the same as re- 



