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over twenty pounds in modern specimens — Mr. Pratt's terriers ran from 

 fourteen up to eighteen pounds, but they would now be considered far 

 too small — and it is not unlikely that some of the large English dogs 

 run well over twenty pounds. The predominating colour is a dark 

 blue, though some show greyish, the coat being a mixture of white hairs 

 running through the black. Whatever the colour is, however, it should 

 be uniform over the head and body, and not show lighter on the head 

 than it is elsewhere. The shape of the body is long, and he is low on 

 the leg, with plenty of substance for his size. The improperly called 

 Skyes are small pets, with silver body colour, flaxen heads and tan 

 legs, and the body is squarer on the legs. This information is not 

 published for dog experts, but to correct a widely held but erroneous idea 

 in this country that these little imperfect specimens of Yorkshire terriers 

 are Skyes. 



The Skye terrier has never been taken to kindly by fanciers in the 

 United States, and those who have gone in for them have never kept them 

 for any length of lime. This we attribute to the difficulty in keeping them 

 in coat in our warm climate and the amount of attention called for to keep 

 show specimens in proper condition. The one American exception is in 

 the case of Mr. Caverhill of Montreal, who for several years has shown 

 many excellent Skye terriers, some of them imported and others of his own 

 breeding. The Swiss Mountain Kennels also had one or two very good 

 Skyes a few years ago, but gave up the breed after a brief trial. Going 

 back to earlier times we can only recall one exhibitor who was at all 

 prominent for any length of time, and that was Mr. Sanderson of West 

 Philadelphia, who was very successful at shows held twenty years ago, and 

 Sanderson's Jim and his kennel mates had things their own way wherever 

 shown. 



At the last New York show there was not a Skye on exhibition; in 1904 

 there was but one and in 1903 there were six. Mrs. Robert H. McCurdy's 

 Wolverley Wallie was the winner in dogs from Mr. Caverhill's home-bred 

 Moorland Lad and in third place we had the patriarch Arden II., who then 

 made his last annual appearance at the advanced age of eleven years. 

 In the bitch class Mr. Caverhill took first and second with sisters to Moorland 

 Lad, named Queen and Silver Ray. All of these were prick-eared Skyes, 

 as indeed have been all exhibited here, to the best of our recollection, though 

 we do not state this as a positive fact. 



