THE OLD WORKING TERRIER. 
which it closely resembled in size and 
colouring. There was also in Shropshire 
a well-known breed of wire-hair terriers, 
black and tan, on very short legs, and 
weighing about ro Ib. or 12 lb., with long 
punishing heads and extraordinary working 
powers. So, too, in Lancashire and Cheshire 
one used to meet with sandy-coloured 
terriers of no very well authenticated strain, 
but closely resembling the present breed of 
Irish Terrier; and Squire Thornton, at 
his place near Pickering, in Yorkshire, had 
a breed of wire-hairs tan in colour with a 
black stripe down the back. Then there is 
the Cowley strain, kept by the Cowleys of 
Callipers, near King’s Langley. These are 
white wire-haired dogs marked like the 
Fox-terrier, and exceedingly game. Pos- 
sibly the Elterwater Terrier, admired of Mr. 
Rawdon Lee, is no longer to be found, but 
some few of them still existed a dozen years 
ago in the Lake District, where they were 
used in conjunction with the West Cumber- 
land Otterhounds. They were not easily 
distinguishable from the better-known Border 
Terriers of which there are still many strains, 
ranging from Northumberland, where Mr. 
T. Robson, of Bellingham, has kept them 
for many years, to Galloway and Ayrshire 
and the Lothians, where their coats become 
longer and less crisp. 
There are many more local varieties of 
the working terrier, as, for example, the 
Roseneath, which is often confused with 
the Poltalloch, or White West Highlander, 
to whom it is possibly related. And the 
Pittenweem, with which the Poltalloch 
terriers are now being crossed. And con- 
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sidering the great number of strains that 
have been preserved by sporting families 
and maintained in more or less purity to 
type, it is easy to understand how a “new” 
breed may become fashionable, and still 
claim the honour of long descent. They may 
not in all cases have the beauty of shape 
which is desired on the show bench; but 
it is well to remember that while our show 
terriers have been bred to the highest per- 
fection we still possess in Great Britain a 
separate order of “earth dogs” that for 
pluckily following the fox and the badger 
into their lairs or bolting an otter from his 
holt cannot be excelled all the world over. 
The terriers may be differentiated into 
three groups—smooth-coated, broken-haired, 
and long-haired, and this grouping is adopted 
in the sequence of the following chapters thus: 
I. SMOOTH-COATED TERRIERS— 
The White English. 
Black and tan. 
Bull Terrier. 
Boston Terrier. 
Smooth Fox-terrier. 
2. BROKEN-HAIRED TERRIERS :— 
Wire-haired Fox-terrier. 
Airedale. 
Bedlington. 
Irish. 
Welsh. 
Scottish. 
West Highland White. 
Dandie Dinmont. 
3. LONG-HAIRED TERRIERS :-~ 
Skye. 
Clydesdale. 
Yorkshire. 
MR. G. S. LOWE'S BOXER (1872), 
