OCCUPANTS OF THE BRYNHIR KENNELS. 
BRED BY MR. WALTER S. GLYNN 
Photograph by Pictorial Agency. 
CHAPTER XXXIX. 
THE WELSH TERRIER. 
BY WALTER S. GLYNN. 
“Therefore to this dog will I, 
Tenderly, not scornfully, 
Render praise and favour 
With my hand upon his head 
Is my benediction said 
Therefore, and for, ever.” 
HIS breed is near akin to the wire- 
hair Fox-terrier, the principal differ- 
ences being merely of colour and 
type. The Welsh Terrier is a wire-haired 
black or grizzle and tan. The most taking 
colouring is a jet black body and back 
with deep tan head, ears, legs, belly, and 
tail. Several specimens have, however, black 
foreheads, skulls, ears, and tail, and the 
black will frequently be seen also extending 
for a short way down the legs. There must 
be no black, however, below the hock, and 
there must be no substantial amount of 
white anywhere; a dog possessing either 
of these faults is, according to the recog- 
nised standard of the breed, disqualified. 
Many of the most successful bench winners 
have, nevertheless, been possessed of a little 
white on the chest and even a few hairs 
of that colour on their hind toes, and, 
E. B. BROWNING. 
apparently, by the common consent of all 
the judges of the breed, they have been 
in nowise handicapped for these blemishes. 
Though one would, of course, prefer to 
have a whiteless specimen, as long as the 
mark in that colour is not on a prominent 
position of the dog’s anatomy, and is not 
in any way extensive, there is no need to 
trouble about it. 
There are not so many grizzle coloured 
Welsh Terriers now as there used to be. A 
grizzle and tan never looks so smart as a 
black and tan; but though this is so, if 
the grizzle is of a dark hard colour, its 
owner should not be handicapped as against 
a black and tan; if, on the contrary, it is 
a washed-out, bluish-looking grizzle, a judge 
is entitled to handicap its possessor, apart 
altogether from the fact that any such 
colour on the back is invariably accom- 
