316 
one finds that perhaps the earliest references 
to the colours of terriers were made by 
Daniel in his ‘‘ Field Sports” at the end of 
the eighteenth century, when he described 
two sorts, the one rough, short-legged, and 
long - backed, very strong, and ‘most 
commonly of a black or yellowish colour, 
mixed with white’—evidently a hound- 
marked dog; and another smooth-coated 
and beautifully formed, with a_ shorter 
body and more sprightly appearance, 
‘generally of a reddish brown colour, or 
black with tanned legs.” 
Gilpin’s portrait of Colonel Thornton’s 
celebrated Pitch, painted in 1790, presents a 
terrier having a smooth white coat with a 
black patch at the set-on of the undocked 
tail, and black markings on the face and 
ears. The dog’s head is badly drawn and 
small in proportion; but the body and 
legs and colouring would hardly disgrace 
the Totteridge kennels of to-day. Fox- 
terriers of a noted strain were depicted 
from life by Reinagle in the picture here re- 
produced from ‘‘ The Sportsman’s Cabinet,” 
published over a hundred years ago. But 
for his cropped ears, the white dog in the 
centre might not be overlooked in the 
modern show ring, so clearly is he of the 
accepted wire-hair Fox-terrier type. 
In the text accompanying the engraving 
a minute account is given of the peculiarities 
and working capacities of the terrier. We 
are told that there were two breeds: the 
one wire-haired, larger, more powerful, 
and harder bitten ; the other smooth-haired 
and smaller, with more style. The wire- 
hairs were white with spots, the smooths 
were black and tan, the tan apparently 
predominating over the black. The same 
writer states that it was customary to 
take out a brace of terriers with a pack of 
hounds, a larger and a smaller one, the 
smaller dog being used in emergency when 
the earth proved to be too narrow to admit 
his bigger companion. It is well known 
that many of the old fox hunters have 
kept their special breeds of terrier, and 
the Belvoir, the Grove, and Lord Middle- 
ton’s are among the packs to which par- 
ticular terrier strains have been attached. 
THE NEW BOOK 
OF THE DOG; 
That even a hundred years ago terriers 
were bred with care, and that certain 
strains were held in especial value, is shown 
by the recorded fact that a litter of seven 
puppies was sold for twenty-one guineas— 
a good price even in these days—and that 
on one occasion so high a sum as twenty 
guineas was paid for a full-grown dog. At 
that time there was no definite and well- 
established breed recognised throughout the 
islands by a specific name; the embracing 
title of ‘‘ Terrier ” included all the varieties 
which have sincebeen carefully differentiated. 
But very many of the breeds existed in their 
respective localities awaiting national re- 
cognition. Here and there some squire or 
huntsman nurtured a particular strain and 
developed a type which he kept pure, and 
at many a manor-house and farmstead in 
Devonshire and Cumberland, on many a 
Highland estate and Irish riverside where 
there were foxes to be hunted or otters to be 
killed, terriers of definite strain were re- 
ligiously cherished. Several of these still 
survive, and are as respectable in descent 
and quite as important historically as some 
of the favoured and fashionable champions 
of our time. They do not perhaps possess 
the outward beauty and distinction of type 
which would justify their being brought 
into general notice, but as workers they 
retain all the fire and verve that are required 
in dogs that are expected to encounter such 
vicious vermin as the badger and the fox. 
Some of the breeds of terriers seen nowa- 
days in every dog show were equally obscure 
and unknown a few years back. Thirty-five 
years ago the now popular Irish Terrier 
was practically unknown in England, and 
the Scottish Terrier was only beginning to 
be recognised as a distinct breed. The Welsh 
Terrier is quite a new introduction that a 
dozen years ago was seldom seen outside 
the Principality ; and so recently as 1881 
the Airedale was merely a local dog known 
in Yorkshire as the Waterside or the Bingley 
Terrier. Yet the breeds just mentioned are 
all of unimpeachable ancestry, and the 
circumstance that they were formerly bred 
within limited neighbourhoods is in itself 
an argument in favour of their purity. 
