go DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
It is admitted that the Scotch dog, as described below, with the 
sanction of nearly every well-known breeder of the present day, is 
of great antiquity, and it must not be confounded with the over- 
sized, long-backed dogs, with large and heavily feathered ears, 
whose traces of Skye ancestry are evident to those who understand. 
the two breeds from which they spring. In fact, it is in the ears 
The Hard-Haired Scotch Terrier. ; 
that one of the chief characteristics of the Scotch terrier lies, for 
all unite in agreeing that they should be small, and covered with 
a velvety coat—not large, and fringed with hair like a prick-haired 
Skye terrier. As regards the carriage of the ear, the opinions of 
those best qualified to judge are a little divided between the merits 
of a perfectly erect and half-drop ear; but all unite in their con- 
demnation of a perfectly drop, button, or fox-terrier ear. As to 
