712 The Dog Book 



common rough-haired dogs, which for many years were named "broken- 

 haired" terriers in middle England and as late as 1880. We once or twice 

 showed Irish terriers in that class, but the hopelessness of beating the crack 

 Yorkshires stopped that waste of entry money. 



From the fact that Airedales and Yorkshires, the giants and the pig- 

 mies of English terriers, were developed in the same Yorkshire district and 

 are also born black and tan and change their coat colour later, we have long 

 held that they are descendants of one parent stock. It takes a person who 

 knows the English workingman to appreciate what fanciers owe to him. 

 Few of them did much reading, outside of the weekly paper, and if the pub- 

 lic house did not take all their spare time and cash, something else had to 

 fill up this spare time. With the physically strong it might be the prize 

 ring or wrestling, with others the winning of a Sheffield handicap would 

 beckon them to the running path, or it might be the purely Yorkshire game 

 of knur and spell. But all did not possess sporting fancies, so dogs, 

 pigeons, singing birds, rabbits and the various breeds of fowls have all felt 

 the influence of the workingmen and mill operatives of Yorkshire. In the 

 dog line there was the man of the fighting dog, the poacher, and the man 

 who found sport along the watercourses or on the moorlands. These men 

 bred the Airedale, starting with a useful moderate sized black — or grizzled- 

 and-tan terrier. Smaller dogs of the same breed were doubtless treated as 

 fancy dogs by those who had not the same desire for sport and with them 

 extra length of coat, its silky texture or the evenness of its later developed 

 colour attracted attention and it was these men who developed the York- 

 shire terrier and are the ones who breed it to-day. 



If you want to buy a fox terrier you go to one of the large exhibitors and 

 may see from twenty to fifty dogs in their kennels or enclosures, and with 

 almost all breeds it is approximately the same. But if a Yorkshire terrier 

 is wanted a visit to Halifax, Bradford or Manchester is about the best thing 

 and after a good deal of inquiry you will be advised to go and see Jack 

 Oldroyd, we will call him. The address will be one of those stereotyped 

 little cottages which cluster in all mill cities. There may be a parlour, but 

 as likely as not if your errand is known you will be ushered into the room of 

 all use. If it is your first visit you will wonder where the dogs are, but after 

 a little chat Jack will rise from his chair, open a door below the kitchen 

 dresser and out will run a Yorkshire with coat slightly oiled, its head coat 

 tied off its face and linen or chamois leather boots on its hind feet, the one 



