THE HARD-HAIRED SCOTCH TERRIER. 89 
land, and a better vermin-killing animal I never saw. I bred from 
him and a beagle bitch several litters for retrieving purposes, which 
they fulfilled extremely well; but as his ears were cropped, I have 
no knowledge of what would have been their shape when entire, 
nor, indeed, was the resultant cross left uncropped, as I preferred 
preserving the terrier character as then known rather than that 
of the beagle. 
“ Pero,” a Scotch Terrier. 
Up to the year 1875 an attempt was made to keep the breed 
before the public by nominally allotting to it a class; but when 
the prizes in it always fell to such dogs as Mrs. Foster's “ Dun- 
dreary ” and Miss Alderson’s “ Mozart,” as was the case in 1873, 
the class was abandoned and special ones constituted for wire- 
haired terriers, to exclude the Halifax strain, which was defined 
as “ broken-haired.” But alas for our poor Scottish friend! No 
sooner was the nationality dropped than Mr. Sanderson’s rough 
breed of fox-terriers came to the front, and since that time they 
kept there until about the year 1880. 
