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1801, no particular colour was attached to the breed, but he dis- 
cribes “‘black and tan” as its peculiar attribute, and since his day 
95 per cent. of the smooth terriers kept in this country were of 
that colour until the rage for fox-terriers came in. As in all breeds 
of this colour, occasionally one or two red puppies are met with, 
and even in the best strains more rarely a blue and fawn one will 
appear.. White and parti-coloured English terriers other than fox 
are also not uncommon, but they are not prized, and the classes 
for “white English terriers” which were common twenty years 
ago are now abandoned. 
THE BLACK AND TAN OR MANCHESTER TERRIER. 
In the present day our English terrier, to be en régle, must be 
either black and tan, and is then called the Manchester terrier, or 
pure white. The latter is much admired by a select few, but the 
former prevails to a very much greater extent throughout the 
country, Manchester, however, being still the headquarters of the 
breed. Since the successive advent into fashion of the Dandie, 
the Skye, and the fox-terrier, and to a lesser extent of the Bed- 
lington and the Halifax terriers, the old English dog has fallen 
into comparative insignificance ; but this is purely a matter of 
fashion, for he was, without doubt, in former times fully the equal 
of each and all the above-mentioned varieties, in every point 
which goes to make up a companionable hbduse-dog, as well as a 
dog useful out of doors for rabbit or vermin hunting. Unfortu- 
nately, in the early part of this century, in order to increase his 
elegance, recourse was had to the Italian greyhound; producing a 
cross intermediate between the two in shape, but retaining the 
delicacy of constitution and cowardice of the greyhound to such 
an extent as to make the dog unfit‘for the purposes to which 
young men generally put their pets.. This little dog was then 
generally known as the spider-terrier, but he is now altogether 
out of fashion, the ladies, who greatly admired. him at first, 
having discarded him in favour of the fox-terrier, which is 
certainly more in accordance with their Ulster coats than the poor 
little trembling animal who formerly shared their caresses with 
his foreign parent, the pug, or the Blenheim spaniel. Whether 
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