224- THE DOGS OF THE BEITISH ISLANDS. 



CHAPTER III. 



SMOOTH TERRIERS 

 (OTHER THAN TOYS). 



THE BLACK AND TAN TERRIER (OR MANCHESTER) THE WHITE ENGLISH 

 TERRIER THE BULL TERRIER. 



THE BLACK AND TAN TEEKIER 



(SOMETIMES CALLED THE MANCHESTER TEEEIEE.) 

 BY HUGH DALZIEL. 



HE Black and Tan Terrier has as good a right to be considered the 

 representative of the old English terrier as any breed in existence, 

 and probably a better one; but not yet haying been blessed with a 

 club to protect his interests and quarrel over his pedigree, he has 

 held his position a very respectable one in the canine world on his 

 own intrinsic merits. His history begins long before Dandie Dinmonts or 

 Bedlingtons were thought of, and his most distinguishing features had ere 

 that been noted. Daniel, in his " Eural Sports " describes his " black body 

 and tanned legs (thumb marks, bronzed thighs, and kissing spots had not then 

 been invented), smooth coat, beautiful formation, short body, and sprightly 

 appearance." Bewick copied Daniel, as several other writers have done ; and since 

 their time, through all the vicissitudes of dog life, and apparently without 

 any special care having been taken of him, he remains essentially true to his 

 prototype, with no doubt a finer and more polished jacket, befitting these 

 days of dog parades. As he cannot speak for himself, I must say for 

 him he has a strong cause of complaint against the Kennel Club; for in 

 the first volume of their stud book, which chronicles the principal shows for 

 fourteen years, he was simply and properly described as the black and tan 

 terrier, " English " of course being understood ; but since 1874 they have added 

 to his title, "or Manchester terrier" The reason for this change I do not 

 know, as the records of their own stud book do not disclose many names of 



