THE SCOTTISH ‘TERRIER. 
It was this letter of ‘‘Strathbogie’s ” 
that brought forth as a rejoinder the verses 
which head this chapter, for in the said letter 
** Strathbogie ” complains that in an article 
written some time previously by Dr. Gordon 
Stables on the breed, the doctor, a Scots- 
man, appeared to class Scottish Terriers 
with ‘the silly long-woolled Toys of Brad- 
ford,’’ and he goes on to say, ‘‘ Now I am 
not second to the funny doctor in my 
admiration (love, if you like) for 
‘flowing tresses,’ still I prefer 
such to adorn the shapely head 
of a bonnie Highland lassie to 
seeing them covering the backs 
of Scotch Terriers ’’—a sentiment, 
no doubt, with which not one of 
the many male admirers of the 
Scottish Terrier of the present 
day will fall out. ‘“Strath- 
MR. J. DEANE WILLIS' CH. CARTER LADDIE 
BY CAMOWEN LADDIE——CARTER JEAN. 
bogie’s”’ letter had also the effect of 
drawing from his lair ‘The Badger,” who, 
writing shortly afterwards in the same 
periodical, says he quite agrees with 
“Strathbogie’s ” description of the breed, 
but adds that he fancies there are also some 
of a sandy colour, that their ears may be 
either drop or prick, and that he prefers 
them of 14 Ib. to 16 lb. weight, long and 
low, with a hard wire coat and straight in 
the fore-legs, ‘‘ though sometimes they will 
be found slightly bowed.” 
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There can be no doubt that the present- 
day Scottish Terrier owes a great deal 
to “The Badger” and “ Strathbogie.” 
These two gentlemen, despite many set- 
backs, stuck to their point, and eventually 
were rewarded by the late Mr.S. E. Shirley, 
then President of the Kennel Club, who 
seems to have been very popular with Scotch- 
men—as, indeed, he was with everyone— 
granting their request and giving or getting 
MR. A. G COWLEY’S 
CH. EMS CHEVALIER 
BY CAMOWEN LADDIE——CARTER JEAN. 
them two classes for their breed at 
the Kennel Club show of that year, 
held at the Alexandra Palace. 
The Scottish Terrier as a show dog 
undoubtedly, therefore, dates from about 
1877 to 1879. He seems almost at once 
to have attained popularity, and he has 
progressed gradually since then, ever in an 
upward direction, until he is—for he does in 
fact exist—to-day one of the most popular 
and extensively owned varieties of the dog. 
Sir Paynton Pigott had undoubtedly at 
that time a very fine kennel of the breed, 
for in The Live Stock Journal of May 30th, 
1879, we find his kennel fully reviewed in a 
most enthusiastic manner by a correspon- 
dent who visited it in consequence of all 
the controversy that was going on at the 
time, as to whether or not there was such 
a dog at all, and who, therefore, wished to 
