156 BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. 



THE TERRIER. 



With this dog every reader must be familiar. There 

 are two distinct varieties of it : the one smooth and 

 sleek, the other having rough hair, and not being so 

 pleasing in form ; the former, too, is of a bright black 

 colour, and the latter generally of a dirty white. The 

 terrier is strong, active, and courageous ; it is the enemy 

 of almost all kinds of vermin, and is therefore of great 

 use in freeing places from rats, polecats, and other 

 offensive animals. It is, also, a good house-dog. 



Sir Walter Scott had among his dogs, with whose 

 peculiarities he was greatly amused, a little shamefaced 

 terrier, with large glassy eyes, and very sensitive to in- 

 dignity and insult. " If ever I whipped him," said Sir 

 Walter to a friend, " the little fellow would sneak and 

 hide himself from the light of the day in a lumber gar- 

 ret, from whence there was no drawing him forth, except 

 by the sound of the chopping- knife, as if chopping up 

 his victuals, when he would steal forth with humiliated 

 and downcast looks, but would slink away again if 

 any one regarded him." 



The following story exhibits many different qualities. 



