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are no good, they are toys," they would have said that they were beagles, 

 quite useless for genuine hunting. 



With those explanations there is nothing so very strange in recommend- 

 ing a cross between a common, game, knockabout dog and another small 

 dog that would give tongue in the earth. It was probably in this way that 

 the white colour was introduced in the terriers. 



Daniel, in 1802, says: "There are two kinds, the one is rough, short 

 legged, long backed, very strong, and most commonly of a black or yellowish 

 colour, mixt with white; the other is smooth haired, and beautifully fonned, 

 having a shorter body and more sprightly appearance, is generally of a 

 reddish brown colour or black with tanned legs; both these sorts are the 

 determined foe of all the vermin kind, and in their encounter with the badger 

 very frequently meet with severe treatment, which they sustain with great 

 courage, and a well-trained terrier often proves more than a match for that 

 animal." 



The first really good description of variety in terriers is that given by 

 Taplin, who issued a "Sportsman's Dictionary" in 1803. Under the head 

 of terriers he says: "Terriers of even the best blood are bred of all colours: 

 red, black (with tan faces, flanks, feet and legs) brindled sandy; some few 

 brown pied, white pied and pure white; as well as one sort of each colour, 

 rough and wire-haired; the other soft and smooth, and what is rather ex- 

 traordinary, the latter not much deficient in courage with the former; but the 

 rough breed must be acknowledged the most severe and invincible biter 

 of the two. Since fox hunting is so deservedly and universally popular in 

 every county where it can be enjoyed, these faithful little animals have 

 become so exceedingly fashionable that few stables of the independent 

 are seen without them. Four or five guineas is no great price for a hand- 

 some, well bred terrier, and a very short time since seven puppies were sold 

 at the Running Horse livery stable in Piccadilly for one and twenty guineas 

 [the dam of these puppies is the white bitch in the Reinagle picture], and 

 these at this time are as true a breed of the small sort as any in England." 

 Another book of the same class issued ten years later mentioned the 

 coming popularity of the harlequin variety, the white with black-and-tan 

 markings, which variety was promoted by Colonel Thornton through his 

 celebrated terrier Pitch. Daniel Lambert also had a famed strain of 

 terriers, but we have not been able to ascertain what they were in regard 

 to colour. 



