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allowing the shape to appear. Colours : dark or light 

 blue, grey, or steel, or fawn with black points. Weight 

 not exceeding twenty-four pounds, a few pounds less, 

 better than any higher, as so many good specimens are 

 spoilt by being coarse, at least, this is my opinion, after 

 considerable practical experience of the breed, and 

 being one of its staunchest admirers. 



Scottish Terriers. — One of the misfortunes of being 

 a " general lover of animals/' is that you can never tell 

 which sort you like best, there are so many breeds, I 

 have bred and exhibited, and I think all breeds I have 

 judged, and I am identified with so many, which are 

 presumed to be my " prime favourites/' but, it is a 

 positive fact, although I have never before mentioned 

 it, that, some of the breeds, in which, I have had the 

 largest entries, for years and years, were taken up by 

 me, so warmly, because, I thought them in " low 

 water," and in danger of extinction without they were 

 encouraged, that they were not at all favourites of 

 mine. But I do not intend to disclose preference for 

 any particular variety, beyond what my friends may 

 know, or others may gather from the contents of this 

 book, but this I will say of the Scottish Terrier, that 

 if I was not the first, as mentioned hereafter in my 

 " Doggy Anecdotes," in this work, to introduce him 

 into this country, more than twenty-five years since, 

 I must have been one of the earliest, as I never saw 

 one here until long after arrival of my " Fraochen," 

 (whose life-like picture, coming through the under- 

 wood with a Rabbit in his mouth, hangs by me while I 



