particularly courageous. If a dog is wanted to rout out a 

 rat colony, no dog can so effectually set them scampering as 

 the EngUsh terrier. Killing them, however, is a. business 

 which this dog declines. While the rat runs, the dog will 

 run after it, but when tlie rat stops, so does the dog, and at 

 a respectful distance, too Should the rat show fight the 

 English terrier takes to his heels. 



Not so his cousin, the bull terrier. He it is that delights in 

 carnage, and is never so thoroughly happy as when he is 

 UteraUy up to his eyes in rats in a rat-pit. His courage is 

 wonderful. As many as five or six savage rats at one time 

 have been seen clinging with their sharp teeth to the ratter's 

 lips and nose and eyebrows, but the dog has never once 

 winced nor paused in his attack. It is curious, too, how 

 little of bull-dog blood goes to furnish a dog with this con- 

 tempt for pain on the one hand, and fierce desire to inflict it 

 on the other. It is not too much to say that the most valu- 

 able of bull-terriers in London have been independent of the 

 buU-dog for six or seven generations. Some of these dogs, 

 while weighing no more than six pounds, will be matched 

 to kiU large rats in a minute each, and that for an hour toge- 

 ther. 



The Scotch terrier is a quaint-looking, clever Httle dog, 

 almost as remarkable for its animosity to vermin as the bull- 

 terrier. Its colours are, as a rule, the same as the English 

 terrier, mingled with grey. It was this dog that in ancient 

 times was used in the cruel sport of " badger-drawing." There 

 is, as says a popular writer, "A peculiar breed of Scotch 

 terriers, called the Dandy Dimmont, in honour of the character 

 of that name in Scott's ' Guy Mannering.' These dogs are 

 of two colours ; one a Hght brown, with a reddish tinge termed 

 ' mustard,' and the other a bluish-gray on the body, and tan 

 on the legs, denominated ' pepper.' These Httle animals are very 

 courageous ; although they often exhibit no proof of their bold 

 nature until they have passed the age of two years, appearing 

 until that time to be rather cowardly than otherwise. This 

 conduct is supposed to be occasioned by their gentle and affec- 

 tionate disposition. The legs of this variety of terrier are 

 short in proportion to the length of the body, the hair is wiry 

 and abundant, and the ears are large, hanging closely over the 

 sides of the head." 



The " Skye " is certainly the oddest terrier of the family. 

 It would be worth inquiring how it is that this dog is so con- 



