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in this dog, and if well entered at vermin when 

 young they are useful enough. Like all terriers, 

 though eager hunters, they do not appear to hunt 

 so much to find as to kill; and when in company 

 with spaniels they are apt to leave the latter to 

 search for the game, while they wait about the runs 

 and outside the bushes, ready to spring upon what- 

 ever is started by the spaniels. I have always 

 found this to be the case vnth my own Skye terriers, 

 and have observed it in others. These dogs gene- 

 rally take the water freely and well, though I 

 have had smooth bull-terriers better swimmers and 

 divers than any rough dog I ever possessed. 



Though dogs often disagree, and are jealous of 

 each other at home, they generally make common 

 cause against a stranger. Two of my dogs, who 

 were such enemies and fought so constantly that I 

 could not keep them in the same kennel, seemed to 

 have compared notes, and to have found out that 

 they had both of them been bullied by a large, 

 powerful watch-dog belonging to a farmer in the 

 neighbourhood. They suspended their own hos- 

 tilities, and formed an alliance, and then they toge- 

 ther assaulted the common enemy ; and so well 

 assisted each other, that although he was far 

 stronger than both my dogs put together, he was 

 go fairly beaten and bullied, that he never again 



