The Terrier 413 



The first attempt to take what was not Welsh was the bobtailed sheep 

 log. That was claimed for Wales because Mr. Lloyd Price, of North Wales, 

 lad two of the breed — ^therefore it must be a Welsh breed; but that claim was 

 iropped when it was clearly proved that the dogs had come from Devon- 

 ;hire. The next claim of the Welshmen was for this good old English dog, 

 he rough black-and-tan terrier, that all the old writers had described and 

 hat Howitt and others etched and drew as the terrier of England. There 

 nust have been powerful influence or great ignorance at work when it was 

 lecided to change the name to Welsh terrier. Still another claim on the 

 )art of a few Welsh fanciers to a title for a genuine English variety is the case 

 )f the Welsh springer, or large spaniel, but no one will begrudge them that 

 log. The Old English terrier is quite another story, and should never 

 lave been recognised as anything but what it is, the oldest known and 

 iescribed variety of English terrier. 



A few other varieties have been put forward as breeds, but have never 

 )een fully recognised. At one time there was a blue-and-tan variety of the 

 )lack-and-tan, just as there was the already mentioned liver-and-tan of 

 Daniel's time. The Clydesdale and Paisley terriers have had stronger 

 :laims, but they do not seem to have been anything but a fancy variety of 

 )kye terrier, smaller and bred for a silky coat. The Roseneath variety of 

 he Scottish terrier is another of the same sort of claims, a lighter colour being 

 he diflPerence in this case. None of these has, however, been sufficiently 

 ecognised in its own country to warrant consideration as a distinct variety 

 It the present time. 



The etching of the Sau-finder we picked up in one of our print-shop 

 esearches and bought because of the striking terrier character of this Ger- 

 nan dog, though at that time we had never seen any mention of the dog. 

 Recently we came across a reference to Ridinger having given the dog the 

 lame of Sau-finder in one of his paintings. That would be about 1735. 

 There is no clue as to date on the etching we copy, nor to what, if any, use 

 t was put as an illustration. Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, who wrote the 

 ection on the dogs and allied species in Jardine's Naturalists' Library, 

 classifies the Sau-finder as a terrier, the only terrier mentioned by him as 

 continental, and it was from him we got the information as to Ridinger's 

 )ainting and nomenclature. A quotation which includes the Sau-finder 

 eference will be found in the chapter on the Skye terrier. 



We are indebted to Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman's reproduction 



