40 Useful Companions of Man. 
head, 25; eye, 5; neck, 5; chest, 5 ; shoulders, 5; feet, 
5; loins, 5; tail, 5. ; 
Rough or Broken-haired Terriers are no doubt 
all descended from the broken-haired Scotch dog, with 
which all must be familiar, but whether the modern silken 
hair has been developed by crossing with the Maltese, 
or by selection, is a moot question. In general shape 
this dog resembles the smooth variety, but he is slightly 
longer in frame, and not so elegant in his proportions. 
The chief peculiarity, as I before remarked, is in coat 
and colour. The roughness of coat about the muzzle 
and face makes the head look larger, and takes off a 
good deal from the lively look so remarkable in the 
smooth dog. 
The old-fashioned hard and wiry-coated dog is, I 
believe, more game than the silky-haired dog now in 
fashion ; but no doubt the latter is a very elegant animal, 
and well suited for the bar-parlour, where he is exten- 
sively patronized. The modern favourite is of a blue 
colour, with rich fawn (approaching to a tan) legs, the 
under-parts being all of the latter colour. The tail is 
carried higher than that of the smooth dog. In the old- 
fashioned strain the colours are either grizzled, black, 
with pale tan spots, or generally of a grizzled black-brown, 
sometimes quite grey and constituting the pepper-and- 
salt colour. Sometimes the broken-haired dog is white, 
more or less marked with blue, or some other colour, but 
the less the better. 
There is a great difference of opinion as regards the 
points of a broken-haired terrier; we will therefore describe 
the points of the two varieties in most esteem, beginning 
with those chiefly bred in Lancashire and Yorkshire, as 
these, up to the present time, have distanced the Scotch 
terrier at our great shows on account of their taking 
appearance to the eyes of the general public. In our 
opinion, however, the Scotch terrier proper is superior in 
point of usefulness at home and abroad, and when the 
two are shown together it should be preferred—shape, 
make, and colour being equal 
The points of the Yorkshire dog are the same as re- 
