178 The Fox Terrier. 



terrier. Moreover, the shoulders are thus made to appear 

 too upright. 



There are doubtless other strains of working terriers in 

 addition to such as I have already named, but none of 

 them, so far as I am aware, have sufficient identity and 

 character of their own to merit special recognition, and, 

 besides, most of these local varieties are, as a rule, brown 

 or black, or dark in colour, which is very much against 

 them in the field of sport. Scottish terriers, Welsh terriers 

 — indeed, any kind of terrier not white — a white strain of 

 Scottish terriers has recently been introduced — used with 

 a pack, are liable to be killed, hounds in their eagerness and 

 excitement too often taking their willing little assistants 

 for the fox or otter and acting accordingly. Many a 

 good terrier has so met an untimely end, whilst had he 

 been white no such fatality would have befallen him. And 

 similar remarks apply to dark coloured terriers when used 

 with the gun in covert, for a careless shooter is only too apt 

 to take Scottie, or Taffy, or Paddy for what he is not, and 

 give the poor dog a charge of the shot which was intended 

 for the hare or rabbit. 



Remarks made earlier with regard to the character of 

 the smooth, apply equally to the wire-haired, terriers ; and 

 where the latter are not able to bolt a fox or otter, the 

 reason is because they have never been educated so to do. 

 Here is Mr. W. Carrick's prize dog, Carlisle Tack ; look at 

 him, and does there appear to be any reason to doubt his 

 gameness? A terrier every inch, built on racing lines 

 almost, without any lumber about him, and with powerful 

 jaws ; the artist having flattered him in the latter respect as 

 he has done in coat. His weight was 171b., he was all white 

 in colour, was born May 5th, 1884, and in his day won many 



