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black. But these colours encroach on each other in the following 
way. The black is shown over the whole of the upper surfaces 
and sides, except a spot of tan over each eye on the brow, and 
another on each cheek, in both cases being set in a circle of black ; 
the tan also runs along the sides of the jaws backwards to the lower 
parts of the cheeks and ends in the throat. Examining the tan, 
we find it occupying all the lower parts of the body, the under 
sides of the ears, a spot on each side of the front of the chest, which 
it thereby shares with the black. The legs are tanned up to the 
knees and hocks outside and inside all the way up. The feet are 
entirely tan with the exception of a black line on each toe called 
“pencilling,” while just above the foot and below the knee in front 
of the pastern a black mark called the “thumb-mark ” is exhibited. 
These markings are regarded as of great importance, and, of course, 
puppies exhibiting them are carefully selected and bred from, but 
they are seldom shown till the second or third month. The clearer 
the black the higher the value accorded to them. 
The tail is of the tobacco-pipe order, strong at the n68: and 
tapering to a fine point like the sting of a bee. It must be curved 
down, a curl over the back being specially disliked. 
Symmetry in a dog regarded only for his beauty is of course 
valued accordingly. 
THE WHITE ENGLISH TERRIER. 
This breed until very recently has fallen into neglect, but within 
the last four or five years attempts have been made to resuscitate 
it with some success. In the early days of shows, and notably at 
Islington in 1862, Mr. White of Clapham carried all before him 
with his strain of pure white English terriers, but after that time 
few good specimens were shown until 1876, when Mr. G. Stables 
of Manchester came out with a strain superior in form to that of 
Mr. White, and indeed exactly resembling the Manchester terrier 
in shape, with more hair than Mr. White’s terriers possessed. His 
kennel had evidently been too much inbred, and, probably owing 
to this cause, the strain seems to have died out. 
This dog (when shown, which is now very rarely done) is judged, 
by the same scale as the Manchester terrier, except that the thirty 
