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doubt a whole pack of these ridiculous 

 creatures could go down a rabbit - hole, 

 yet if, by some inconceivable process, they 

 were induced to venture down a badger- 

 earth, they would hardly afford a meal for 

 a brock. For a totally opposite reason 

 another Yorkshire breed is unfitted for the 

 name of terrier this is the Airedale. He 

 is, as a rule, a game sort of dog, and I 

 have seen one look very much distressed 

 when he could only get his head into 

 a large earth. The preposterous size of 

 this so-called terrier is such that he cannot 

 go to ground ; this is also the case with 

 the general run of Bedlingtons, Dandle 

 Dinmonts, black and tan, and even Irish 

 terriers ; though when a Dandy or Irish 

 terrier is small enough, he is excellent, 



