458 The Dog Book 



and, of course, better enabled to keep up with the pack than the 

 Scotch terrier." 



We have already mentioned in the introduction to the terriers that we 

 have seen some Parisian reproductions of hunting scenes by an English 

 artist, in one of which there is a very nice black and tan terrier, of quite 

 the correct shape of body and a nice length of head, running with the pack 

 in full cry. This dates from about the time Captain Brown was writing. 

 Of the same period is Pierce Egan's description of the new bull terrier, the 

 illustration showing a bull terrier and a smallish black and tan bitch, which 

 he refers to as " a full-bred terrier," as if it was one of the recognised type 

 with which his readers were thoroughly acquainted. 



Although there was some cavil a few years ago at the distinctive name 

 of Manchester for the large show black and tan terrier it was not such a 

 very far-fetched distinction. The London fancy was more for the toy, 

 it being bred by the same class of fanciers that went in for toy spaniels, and 

 held their occasional displays or club shows at various public houses where 

 they met for social purposes. Through Lancashire and eastern Yorkshire 

 the fancy ran to the larger dog, and head and colour, with markings, took 

 the place of smallness. Manchester had by far the largest number of the 

 fanciers, and it was by no means out of the way to give it the variety name 

 of the place where it was specially fostered and encouraged. It is a pity 

 that some of those who have written regarding the "unwarranted assump- 

 tion" of Manchester claiming the large black and tan, did not first look 

 up their own stud book — it is only Englishmen who have so written — and 

 noted what Manchester did for the breed. 



The first English stud book contains the entry of one hundred and 

 twenty-four black and tan terriers, other than toys, and of this number we 

 can without any reference for further information, but solely from our recol- 

 lection of where many of the exhibitors and breeders resided, pick out no 

 less than fifty-two hailing from Manchester or its immediate neighbourhood, 

 or bred there. Of the remaining seventy odd entries fully half of them 

 have no pedigrees, and of the rest there is a sprinkling of London dogs, a 

 few in the Birmingham district, and as far north as Durham, while Sam 

 Lang, the pointer man, had some at Bristol. The leading breeder and 

 exhibitor at that time was the late Mr. Harry Lacy, and the last occasion 

 of our meeting him was at Justice's well-known house in Salford, at the 

 close of 1894. We heard nothing but black and tan talk that evening, 



