By 
WHITE C. H. LANs, 
F.Z.S., 
Author of 
SCOTTISH 
“Dog Shows 
and Doggie 
People,” 
TERRIERS 
A TRIO OF WHITE SCOTTISH TERRIERS 
“Miss Tich,”’ ‘“‘Nipper,’’ and ‘‘ Bessie.” 
WAC eee many old sayings. we have almost come to 
regard as proverbs is ‘“ Poets are born, not made.” 
I think the same is very frequently true of fanciers also. 
I cannot remember the time when I was not a lover of all 
kinds of living animals; some of them I began to keep as pets 
before I was old enough to go to school; since then I have 
never been without a pet animal of some kind or other. 
Naturally, with this sort of taste, nearly everything in the 
ordinary way kept as pets has passed through my hands as 
‘owner, and during the last twenty years and upwards has come 
before me to judge at one place or the other. 
Always keenly interested in dogs, even when they held a 
very inferior position in the world to their standing at the 
present time, I can well remember the pride I felt when 
I had one of my very own, an Irish Setter called “ Rover,” 
who was my devoted companion as a child and who got me 
into many scrapes by a bad habit he acquired of chasing sheep, which failing of 
his eventually led to our parting company. In the course of my walks abroad, and in 
particular when at some of the large dog shows now held so extensively throughout 
the Kingdom, I have often been struck with the superficial knowledge possessed by the 
non-doggy part of the public about the many varieties of dogs seen at the shows. 
Within the last two years I have come across persons staring in amazement at such 
well-known breeds as Mastiffs, Bulldogs, Deerhounds, &c., and quite unable to decide 
what manner of animals they were or for what purposes they were used. 
In no previous period of the world’s history were dogs so much thought of and 
cared for as at the present time, and the value of high-class specimens is constantly 
increasing. 
Some of my readers may possibly regard White Scottish Terriers as novelties and 
productions of modern times, but this is not the idea held by those who know most 
about them. They have also been regarded as sports, or albinos, but it has been 
proved they will breed true to colour and type, and although not seen in anything 
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