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upper coat very hard, and not too long ; under coat shorter and softer. 

 The tout ensemble should convey universal strength and activity, but 

 with no approach to racing lines." 



"During the 'straight-legged' war, a well-known scientist at the 

 Natural History Museum, South Kensington, on being asked his opin- 

 ion as to the crooked legs now found on many varieties of the dog, 

 said: 'The outward curve of the fore limbs (and I suppose of the 

 Scottish terrier, although I do not know them so well,) is an inherited 

 deformity, unlike anything in nature.' " 



Mr. Ludlow writes : 



" I take it that if Nature thought bent fore-legs were a necessary 

 formation for animals that depend upon burrowing for their safety, — 

 nay, for their very existence, — she would have produced the requisite 

 curve in at least some of them. I am satisfied to have Nature for my 

 guide in breeding ; and so long as I produce terriers that have to follow 

 and do to death these straight-legged diggers, I shall be content with 

 the spades that I find she has supplied her creatures with, rather than 

 run after the ' inherited deformities ' that some prejudiced persons go 

 rabid over. Looking at the question from a show point of view, there 

 can be no doubt that a terrier with straight fore-legs is a more taking 

 animal, than one with crooked limbs; and, for that reason alone, 

 Scottish terriers are, sooner or later, bound to be bred with fronts as 

 straight as those of the animals they are taught to look upon as their 

 hereditary foes." 



The Scottish Terrier Club, estabUshed in 1889, has for 

 its Secretary Mr. A. McBrayne Irvine, and there is also a 

 Scottish Terrier Club for England, — the older establishment 

 of the two, — of which Mr. H. J. Ludlow is Secretary. The 

 description of the dog, issued by the former, is as follows : 



'' Skull (value 5) — Proportionately long, slightly domed, 

 and covered with short, hard hair, about three-quarters of 



