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OCCUPANTS OF THE BRYNHIR KENNELS. 

 BRED BY MR. WALTER S. GLYNN 

 Photograph by Pictorial Agency. 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 

 THE WELSH TERRIER. 



BY WALTER S. GLYNN. 



" Therefore to this dog will I, 

 Tenderly, not scornfully, 



Render praise and favour 

 With my hand upon his head 

 Is my benediction said 



Therefore^ and for ever." 



E. B. BROWNING. 



THIS breed is near akin to the wire- 

 hair Fox-terrier, the principal differ- 

 ences being merely of colour and 

 type. The Welsh Terrier is a wire-haired 

 black or grizzle and tan. The most taking 

 colouring is a jet black body and back 

 with deep tan head, ears, legs, belly, and 

 tail. Several specimens have, however, black 

 foreheads, skulls, ears, and tail, and the 

 black will frequently be seen also extending 

 for a short way down the legs. There must 

 be no black, however, below the hock, and 

 there must be no substantial amount of 

 white anywhere ; a dog possessing either 

 of these faults is, according to the recog- 

 nised standard of the breed, disqualified. 

 Many of the most successful bench winners 

 have, nevertheless, been possessed of a little 

 white on the chest and even a few hairs 

 of that colour on their hind toes, and, 



apparently, by the common consent of all 

 the judges of the breed, they have been 

 in nowise handicapped for these blemishes. 

 Though one would, of course, prefer to 

 have a whiteless specimen, as long as the 

 mark in that colour is not on a prominent 

 position of the dog's anatomy, and is not 

 in any way extensive, there is no need to 

 trouble about it. 



There are not so many grizzle coloured 

 Welsh Terriers now as there used to be. A 

 grizzle and tan never looks so smart as a 

 black and tan ; but though this is so, if 

 the grizzle is of a dark hard colour, its 

 owner should not be handicapped as against 

 a black and tan ; if, on the contrary, it is 

 a washed-out, bluish-looking grizzle, a judge 

 is entitled to handicap its possessor, apart 

 altogether from the fact that any such 

 colour on the back is invariably accom- 



