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panied by an objectionable light tan on 
the legs, the whole being a certain sign 
of a soft, silky, unterrierlike coat. 
The coat of the Welsh Terrier slightly 
differs from that of the wire-hair Fox- 
terrier in that it is, as a rule, not so abundant, 
and is, in reality, a different class of coat. 
It is not so broken as is that of the Fox- 
terrier, and is generally a smoother, shorter 
coat, with the hairs very close together. 
When accompanied with this there is a 
dense undercoat, one has, for a terrier used 
to work a good deal in water, an ideal 
covering, as waterproof almost as the 
feathers on a duck’s back. The other 
difference between the Fox and Welsh 
Terrier—viz., type—is very hard to define. 
To anyone who really understands Welsh 
Terriers, the selection of those of proper 
type from those of wrong type presents 
little if any difficulty. 
The Welsh Terrier, the standard of points 
says, should present a more masculine 
appearance than that usually seen in a Fox- 
terrier, but it must not be taken from this 
that any degree of coarseness is required. 
There is, it is believed, such a thing as 
masculine quality to be found even amongst 
men; it is this that is wanted in a Welsh 
Terrier. He must be, in fact, a gentleman, 
quite ready and able to take his part in 
anything, however disagreeable and rough, 
and he must further look the part. 
Amongst those of wrong type that are 
sometimes to be seen are specimens which 
show a distinct likeness to an Airedale, 
Fox, Irish, or Bedlington Terrier, even to 
a Collie. All these are, as has been said, 
easily discernible by competent judges, who 
will have none of them and adhere manfully 
to the proper Welsh type. 
As a show-bench exhibit the Welsh 
Terrier is not more than twenty-two years 
old. He has, however, resided in Wales 
for centuries. 
There is no doubt that he is in reality 
identical with the old black and tan wire- 
haired dog which was England’s first terrier, 
and which has taken such a prominent part 
in the production and evolution of all the 
other varieties of the sporting terrier. 
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG, 
The real old Welsh gentry have ever been 
keen sportsmen, and they are still. We 
know that years ago a good deal of fighting 
used to take place between gentlemen of 
England and Wales living anywhere near 
each other on the border; and what more 
likely than that in some of these little 
affairs—where the Welshman, maybe, was 
the victor—the Englishman’s terrier was 
“raised”? by the former in common with 
other loot? However this may be, there 
is not a shadow of doubt that the old 
black and tan wire-hair had at one time 
practically died out in England, and yet 
was stuck to and cherished in Wales, in 
parts of which country, such as Carnarvon- 
shire, he has unquestionably been bred for 
hundreds of years. 
There are several people living in or 
about Carnarvonshire who can show that 
Welsh Terriers have been kept by their 
ancestors from, at any rate, a hundred to 
two hundred years ago. Notable among 
these is the present master of the Ynysfor 
Otter-hounds, whose great grandfather, John 
Jones, of Ynysfor, owned Welsh Terriers 
in or about the year 1760. This pack of 
Otter-hounds has always been kept by the 
Jones of Ynysfor, who have always worked 
and still work Welsh Terriers with them. 
From this strain some good terriers have 
sprung, and this although neither the present 
master nor any of his ancestors have con- 
cerned themselves greatly about the looks of 
their terriers, or kept anything but a head 
record of their pedigrees. They are all, how- 
ever, pure bred, and are set much store on 
by their owner and his family, just as they 
always have been by their predecessors. 
Well over a hundred years ago there 
existed, near Dolwyddelan, an old farmer 
named Griffith Hughes, noted for his Welsh 
Terriers that were famed throughout the 
countryside for their prowess with fox or 
otter. There is in existence an original 
painting of this old sportsman with one of 
his best Welsh Terriers, a dog that was 
known to have killed a great number of 
foxes. The original picture is in the posses- 
sion of Mr. Rumsey Williams, of Carnarvon, 
and a copy of it is to be seen at Ynysfor. 
