160 THE TERRIER. 



So I might have my belly-full of that 

 Her Iceland cur refuses." 



(ActV. Scene 1.) 



The right hand figure in the preceding wood-cut represents the 

 comforter or spaniel-gentle, another sort of lap-dog, and which, 

 in comparison with the shock, is as " Hyperion to a satyr." 



THE TERRIER. (Can is terrarius.} 



The terrier receives its name from its use in unearthing foxes, 

 badgers, polecats, rats, and other animals from their holes, and 

 in this employment it displays great sagacity, strength, and 

 courage. The adroitness with which it seizes the boldest vermin, 

 and the rapidity with which it dispatches them, are truly sur- 

 prising. On a betting occasion, Billy, a celebrated terrier, was 

 turned into a room where there were one hundred rats, and he 

 killed them all in less than seven minutes. 



Professor Bell remarks that " the terrier bears in its form 

 but a very remote relation to any of the other varieties, and 

 appears to have existed from a very remote period as a distinct 

 race, which in the present day is preserved in its purity with the 

 greatest care." But, strange to say, Sir John Sebright, whom 



