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Terrier, which at present rules the roost, 

 dates from 1879 as a show dog. 



I therefore earnestly hope that no fancy 

 will arise about these dogs which will 



I trust I have not tired my readers, and 

 that they understand that the West High- 

 land White Terriers are not White Aber- 

 deens, not a new invention, but have a 



make them less hardy, less wise, less com- most respectable ancestry of their own. I 



panionable, less active, or less desperate 



fighters underground than they are at 



present. A young dog that I gave to a 



keeper got its stomach torn open in a 



fight. It came out of the cairn to its master 



to be helped. He put the 



entrails back to the best of 



his ability, and then the dog 



slipped out of his hands to 



finish the fight, and forced 



the fox out into the open ! 



That is the spirit of the 



breed ; but, alas, that cannot 



be exhibited on the show 



bench. They do say that 



a keeper of mine, when 



chaffed by the " fancy " 



about the baby faces of his 



" lot," was driven to ask, 



" Well, can any of you 



gentlemen oblige me with a 



cat, and I'll show you ? " 



I did not hear him say it, 



so it may only be a tale. 



Anyhow, I have in my 

 kennel a dog who, at ten 

 months old, met a vixen fox 

 as she was bolting out of 

 her cairn, and he at once 

 caught her by the throat, 

 stuck to her till the pack 

 came up, and then on till 

 she was killed. In the course of one month 



add the formal list of points, but this is 

 the work of show bench experts and it 

 will be seen from what I have written 

 that I do not agree with them on certain 

 particulars. There should be feather to a 



COLONEL MALCOLM'S SONNY 

 BY DOICHIOLL FIORACH. 



fair degree on the tail, but if experts will 



his wounds were healed, and he had two not allow it, put rosin on your hands and 



other classical fights, one with a cat and 

 the other with a dog fox. Not bad for a 

 pup with a " baby face " ? 



I am sorry to say that the foxes about 

 my place are nearly cleared out, but be- 



pull the hair out and the rosin will win your 

 prize. The eye should not be sunk, which 

 gives the sulky look of the "Scotch" Terrier, 

 but should be full and bright, and the ex- 

 pression friendly and confiding. The skull 



tween 1894 and 1899 603 foxes were killed should not be narrow anywhere. It is almost 



and counted above ground on this property impossible to get black nails in a dog of 



alone. I have not the lists complete for pure breed and the black soon wears off the 



the subsequent years, but we killed 74 foxes pad work, so folk must understand this. On 



and four otters between 1902 and 1905. two occasions recently I have shown dogs, 



In future I must do " tod " hunter for acknowledged, as dogs, to be quite first class, 



my friends. "but, you see, they are not the proper" 



