242 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



terrier of England was sought by a few astute people living 

 probably not very far from Aberdeen. 



Scottish Terriers frequently go by the name of Aberdeen 

 Terriers an appellation, it is true, usually heard only from 

 the lips of people who do not know much about them. Mr. 

 W. L. McCandlish, one of the greatest living authorities 

 on the breed, in an able treatise published some time back, 

 tells us, in reference to this matter, that the terrier under 

 notice went at different periods under the names of Highland, 

 Cairn, Aberdeen, and Scotch ; that he is now known by the 

 proud title of Scottish Terrier ; and that " the only surviving 

 trace of the differing nomenclature is the title Aberdeen, which 

 many people still regard as a different breed a want of 

 knowledge frequently turned to account by the unscrupulous 

 dealer who is able to sell under the name of Aberdeen a dog 

 too bad to dispose of as a Scottish Terrier." But there can be 

 no doubt that originally there must have been some reason for 

 the name. In a letter to the writer, Sir Paynton Pigott 

 says, " Some people call them and advertise them as the 

 Aberdeen Terrier, which is altogether a mistake ; but the 

 reason of it is that forty years ago a Dr. Van Bust, who lived in 

 Aberdeen, bred these terriers to a large extent and sold themi 

 and those buying them called them, in consequence, ' Aberdeen 

 Terriers,' whereas they were in reality merely a picked sort 

 of Old Scotch or Highland Terrier." Sir Paynton himself, 

 as appears from the columns of The Live Stock Journal (March 

 2nd, 1877), bought some of the strain of Van Bust, and therein 

 gives a full description of the same. 



Sir Paynton Pigott 's kennel of the breed assumed quite 

 large proportions, and was most successful, several times 

 winning all the prizes offered in the variety at different shows. 

 He may well be called the Father of the breed in England, for 

 when he gave up exhibiting, a great deal of his best blood 

 got into the kennels of Mr. H. J. Ludlow, who, as everyone 

 knows, has done such a tremendous amount of good in 

 popularising the breed and has also himself produced 



