32 THE IRISH TERRIER. 



" Driving along the roads any hour of the night, this state of things 

 you Avill find still to exist, and it is a matter of wonder how the inmates 

 sleep and quite ignore the choruses of howls on moonlight nights. I 

 believe, myself, that the Irish garrisons distributed over the country the 

 bull-dog, which was used for crossing. As many native fanciers say, to 

 this day, there is nothing like a ' eras ' of the bull, and I think the Irish 

 terriers' disposition largely shows it. You find them still of all types, 

 long in leg, short on leg, and long in body, and ci"ooked in legs, and of 

 all colors, — red, black, blue, brindle, — and those with tan legs often 

 have the best coats. I know, at the present time, brindles showing 

 more of the modern type, as regards length of leg and general conforma- 

 tion, than the other colors. 



" There is a glen (Imaal) in the Wicklow mountains that has always 

 been, and still is, justly celebrated for its terriers. It would be hard to 

 specify their color in particular, — the wheaten, in all shades, to that of 

 bright red. In Kerry, I think the black-blue is most prevalent; quite 

 black very uncommon, and I hardly ever saw a good specimen that 

 color. Mr. Chas. Galway, of Waterford, the breeder of the celebrated 

 greyhound Master McGrath, tor years, long before the Irish terrier came 

 into fashion, always kept and bred the variety, and I am told there was 

 no getting one from him. I am also informed the coats of his terriers 

 were rather inclined to curl, and that the dogs themselves were unde- 

 niably game." 



On another page in the same book we find : 



"'Mr. C. J. Barnett, of Hambleden, whose name is a household 

 word in connection with Irish terriers, says : ' There is no doubt that 

 the Irish terrier was the common terrier of Ireland a century ago, and 

 is to this day the friend and companion of the native. IJefore railways 

 were introduced, inter-breeding, in certain localities, caused a type which 

 might have varied slightly in certain districts. . . . 



Speaking of terriers in general, Mr. Lee says : 

 " Since Stonehenge's ' Dogs of the IJritish Isles ' was first published 

 (in 1867), which included the same varieties he had given eight years 



