THE SCOTTISH TERRIER 



" The labour ive delight in physics pain." 



MACBETH. 



SHORT legged, long bodied terriers have been indigenous to 

 Scotland for more centuries than history records. Something 

 comes to us from the second half of the sixteenth century, when 

 the Bishop of Ross wrote of a scenting dog, " of low height, 

 indeed, but of bulkier body, which, creeping into subterraneous 

 burrows, routs out foxes, badgers, martens, and wild cats from their 

 lurking places and dens. Then, if he at any time finds the passage 

 too narrow, opens himself a way with his feet, and that with so 

 great labour that he frequently perishes through his own exertions." 

 No matter what changes and modifications may have been since 

 introduced by the skill of man, the bedrock fact remains that the 

 Bishop's dogs were fashioned much on the lines of the aristocrats 

 of the show bench to-day. Why Scotland should be prolific in 

 terriers of the long and low shape, while England and Ireland are 

 satisfied with those of a normal height is one of those things 

 difficult of explanation. Theoretically, one would naturally imagine 



