102 Dog Shows and Doggy People 



These dogs have dark eyes, black noses, lips, and pads, and 

 are of pure Scottish Terrier blood, with hard coats and true Terrier 

 expression. The Doctor believes them to be a reversion in colour 

 to the original national dogs of Scotland white or almost pure 

 white, although their immediate ancestry were more or less 

 impregnated with colours of every hue ; and as the type is now 

 fixed and capable of reproducing itself, he is in no fear of hearing 

 his white dogs again referred to as "sports" which are mere 

 individual casualties, incapable of reproduction. 



The Doctor trusts that his results may prove an incentive to 

 other scientific breeders, who have still many fields open to 

 them to work upon notably the elimination of the unsightly 

 Fox-terrier tail and he promises them that in an animal so 

 bred to points that they will possess a reward equally satisfactory 

 and satisfying. 



Probably no man living has devoted more time and trouble 

 in carrying out the production of a variety of a popular breed 

 than Dr. Flaxman, and it is with much pleasure I include him 

 amongst the Doggy People, many of whom, like the writer, greatly 

 admire the White Scottish Terriers, which are now often provided 

 with classes of their own at some of the larger shows. 



I am glad to be able to give my readers a good portrait of Dr. 

 Flaxman and of some of his dogs. 



Mrs. Fare Fosse 



WE are often told there is no such thing as luck, but we are 

 inclined to doubt it when we consider the career of this lady in 

 connection with dog shows. Apparently with no previous experi- 

 ence of dogs in general, or the variety she has specially favoured, 

 her efforts have been crowned with marked success. 



I well remember the purchase of the Sheep-dog afterwards known 

 as Wall-eyed Bob who had many good points, and a very suc- 

 cessful time at the shows by a man I knew slightly, of an ostler, 

 I think, at the stables of an inn at Dover, for a sovereign ; and he 

 told me he disposed of a half-share in the dog to another man, also 

 known to me, for 40. 



Mrs. Fare Fosse subsequently purchased the dog, mated him 

 with a typical old-fashioned bitch called Pegotty she had picked 

 up by chance, and from these two has built up the most successful 



